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The Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International is a
political international of
Trotskyist political organizations that claim to adhere to the political legacy of the
Fourth International. It was formed by groups which arose as the "Internationalist Bolshevik Faction" within the
International Workers League (IWL-FI) in 1989. Regarded at first as an "external fraction" who had been wrongly expelled, from 1988 to 1990 the Argentinian
Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) had three splits: first when a number of militants returned to the Argentinian
Movement for Socialism
The Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples ( es, Movimiento al Socialismo–Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos, abbreviated MAS-IPSP, or simply MAS, punning on ''más'', Spanish for ...
(MAS) party, then when another group of militants sympathized with the British
Workers Revolutionary Party (Worker Press) and the third when supporters of León Pérez (former member of the International Secretariat of the International Workers League) decided to follow a mass party perspective (as opposed to a vanguard party).
These splits forced the PTS to make a balance and self-criticism, resulting in a further development that mainly questioned the update of the
Transitional Program (the so-called the "Theory of Democratic Revolution") that the leader of the International Workers League
Nahuel Moreno made, understanding it as an opposition to
Leon Trotsky's Theory of
Permanent Revolution
Permanent revolution is the strategy of a revolutionary class pursuing its own interests independently and without compromise or alliance with opposing sections of society. As a term within Marxist theory, it was first coined by Karl Marx and ...
.
In 1998 it emerged as the Trotskyist Fraction - International Strategy, founded by the PTS of Argentina, the LTS of Mexico, the LOR of Bolivia and with the endorsements of the Estratégia Revolucionaria (''Revolutionary Strategy'') group of Brazil and the Clase contra Clase (''Class against Class'') group of Chile as well as some militant sympathizers in Europe. In 2004, in its second international conference, coinciding with the congress of the
Movement for the Refoundation of the Fourth International which also met in Buenos Aires, the TF decided to change the name "International Strategy" to "Fourth International". Following the economic crisis and demonstrations in several countries, the TF-FI has grown in Latin America and Europe and now promotes the formation of a new grouping: An International Movement for a Socialist Revolution - Fourth International, which had its manifesto updated in 2017 and 2018 due to new developments in the international arena.
National sections
Former sections:
* Groupe Communiste Revolutionaire Internationaliste (Revolutionary Internationalist Communist Group) (CRI) - They were admitted in 2008 as sympathiser section,
but after the creation of the
New Anticapitalist Party
The New Anticapitalist Party (french: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste , abbreviated NPA) is a far-left political party in France founded in February 2009. The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of ...
they decided to dissolve within the CLAIRE Tendency (acronym for "Tendency for Communism and self-organized, internationalist and revolutionary struggle").
* Socialist Revolution League (Liga de la Revolución Socialista) (LRS) - Admitted in 2008 as full section,
but they dissolved in 2014.
See also
*
List of Trotskyist internationals
References
External links
Trotskyist Fraction
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