The International Workers League (Fourth International), also known as IWLfi ( es, Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores (Cuarta Internacional) and LITci; pt, Liga Internacional dos Trabalhadores - Quarta Internacional or LIT-QI) is a Morenist

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Overview

The group's origins lie in the

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(ICFI). Moreno's supporters followed the American Socialist Workers Party in leaving the ICFI in 1963 to form the

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(USFI). In 1969, the USFI voted to support

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. Moreno's group opposed this. It was reduced to sympathiser status. While critical of the

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, Moreno's group sent a Simon Bolivar Brigade to

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to aid the

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, with the aim of building a revolutionary party there. This brigade was opposed by the reunified Fourth International because it operated outside the discipline of the FSLN; the only other Trotskyists to participate were

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s' Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International. Forty non-Nicaraguan members of the Brigade were expelled from the country by the FSLN. Almost immediately, Moreno's and Lambert's tendencies joined to form the Parity Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International. However, Moreno's supporters withdrew in 1981 complaining that Lambert had links to

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bureaucrats, and in 1982 formed the "International Workers League (Fourth International)". In addition to their former supporters, this also attracted groups in Peru and Venezuela which split from the Lambertist currents. The group campaigned for the victory of Argentina in the Falklands War, for the non-payment of foreign debt, and for the "defeat of imperialism in the

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." In the mid-1990s, it helped launch Workers' Aid to Bosnia and began working with the Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International, although that group is now inactive. Disagreements following the death of Moreno led several sections to leave the international, while others split. Those who left founded the

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(CITO in Spanish). The majority of this group rejoined the International Workers League in 2005, the minority forming the International Socialist League. In 2021 the Chilean section of the IWLfi elected a member to the constitutional convention. María Rivera was elected in district 8 (

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West) as part of

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. The LITci publishes the bulletin ''International Courier'' (''Correo Internacional'') and the journal '' Marxism Alive'' (''Marxismo Vivo'' or ''Le Marxisme Vivant''), both in various languages, principally

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Sections

Official Sections

Sympathizing Sections

Notes

References

*Alicia Sagra,
A Brief Outline of the History of the IWL
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External links

*
List of IWLfi Parties
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