Workers' Power (german: ArbeiterInnenmacht) is the
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section of the
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 ...
League for the Fifth International
The League for the Fifth International (L5I) is an international grouping of revolutionary Trotskyist organisations around a common programme and perspectives.
History
L5I was founded as the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International ...
. It publishes two periodicals: the monthly newspaper ''Neue Internationale'' and the theoretical organ ''Revolutionärer Marxismus''.
The origins of the group lie in the Spartacusbund, which existed until 1982. One faction in that organization had contacts with the British group
Workers' Power so
''Arbeitermacht'' was founded. These two groups along with the
French
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''Pouvoir Ouvrier'' and the
Irish Workers' Group
:''See Irish Workers' Group (1976) for the Irish Workers' Group which was a member of the League for a Fifth International.''
The Irish Workers' Group (IWG) was a Marxist political party in Ireland. It originated as the Irish Workers Union, wh ...
founded the ''Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International''. Soon they found supporters in
Austria
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,
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, and
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, so the movement renamed itself to ''League for a Revolutionary Communist International'', and after adopting a new program in 2003 it got its present name, ''League for the Fifth International'' (LFI).
In 2014 Workers' Power was becoming a leading fraction of the newly funded confraternity of Trotskyist groups in Germany, the ''New Anticapitalist Organisation'' (Neue Antikapitalistische Organisation) which was dissolved subsequently in 2016.
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In 2017, it changed its name to ''ArbeiterInnenmacht'' (see
Binnen-I
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).
The LFI found an independent youth organization called
REVOLUTION
In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
, which stands in political solidarity with the LFI.
After extended disputes about the role of a communist youth organization, the inner structures, the question of building the workers' party, and the resulting relationship with the LFI, a minority of Revo, who refer to themselves as "independents", formed a tendency called iRevo in the summer of 2006.
IRevo
The Revolutionary Internationalist Organization (RIO) is a German trotskyist organization. Its origins lie in ''Independent Revolution'' or ''iRevo'', a tendency within the youth organization REVOLUTION, consisting of the sections in Germany, Swi ...
, which included a large part of the German section, were expelled in October 2006.
References
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External links
Workers Power websiteREVOLUTION
League for the Fifth International
Trotskyist organisations in Germany