The Revolutionary Workers Ferment, often known by its Spanish name or initials Fomento Obrero Revolucionario or FOR, was a small

left communist Left communism, or the communist left, is a position held by the left wing of communism, which criticises the political ideas and practices espoused by Marxist–Leninists and social democrats. Left communists assert positions which they rega ...

international founded by

Grandizo Munis Grandizo Munis (Torreón, Mexico, 18 April 1912Paris, 4 February 1989) was a Spanish Trotskyist politician. He is considered to have become a left communist following his break with the Fourth International. Biography Grandizo first entered ...

, which arose as a split from the Trotskyist

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at its Second Congress in 1948.Alexander, Robert ''International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement'' Durham, Duke University Press 1991 pp. 250–251. Though Munis and his co-thinkers carried on polemics with other currents of Trotskyst origin for three decades, and it was only in the late 1970s that a formal organization was formed. The FOR only held one international conference, at Paris in 1981. At that conference a split emerged between, on the one hand the "interior" Spanish section based in Spain, supported by the FOCUS group in the United States, and the Spanish "exile" faction based in Paris, along with the French section. The interior Spanish and American groups were expelled from the FOR. Munis and the FOR had developed an " ultraleft" policy: they were opposed to the "Communist" states, regarding them as

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; they were opposed to the capitalist system and its form of government; they did not believe in

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; they did not believe in any kind of

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or national liberation struggles and affirmed the "inevitable necessity of the communist revolution on a world scale".

Sections

Groups associated with the FOR included * FOCUS (Trotskyism), in the United States * The Allarme Group in Italy *Synagermos in Greece *Allerma in Spain *Alarme in France

References

{{Reflist Left communist internationals Trotskyist political internationals