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The Necessary International Initiative, often shortened to NII, was a
Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...
international grouping formed in March 1976 by groups considered to the left of the
Fourth International The Fourth International (FI) is a revolutionary socialist international organization consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, also known as Trotskyists, whose declared goal is the overthrowing of global capitalism and the establishment of wor ...
, which the NII characterised as "centrism sui generis", although the British section disagreed with this analysis. It consisted of the FMR, Spartacusbund ( BRD) and two Austrian groups which become the IKL. The British
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joined in September 1976. The group was based on common agreement over positions of other Trotskyist internationals on the
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/5.Death Agony of the Fourth International, Chapter Four, After the Splits, The Splinters
/ref> One of the groups that came out of them was Workers Power (Germany) which is now a member of the
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, as is part of the British section which split in 1976.


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History of the NII as part of The Death Agony of the Fourth International, a book published by the League for the Fifth International


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