This is a list of Trotskyist internationals. It includes all of the many

political international A political international is a transnational organization of political parties having similar ideology or political orientation (e.g. communism, socialism, and Islamism). The international works together on points of agreement to co-ordinate acti ...

s which self-identify as

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 ...

. Of the organizations listed, three claim to be the original

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 ...

founded in 1938: the reunified

and the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). Certain organizations which claim to be Trotskyist make no attempt to claim any relationship to the Fourth International in an organizational sense and argue that it no longer exists. Some claim to represent a continuity from the Fourth International or to have re-established it: for example the Fourth International (ICR) International Centre/Center of Reconstruction, also known as the FI (La Verité), also calls itself the "Fourth International". Others argue that the title "Fourth International" is so discredited that a Fifth International or another new organisation is needed. The various organizations listed here range in size from those having thousands of adherents in dozens of countries to tendencies which can barely claim a dozen members in three or four countries.

List of internationals

Active

Committee for a Workers' International The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) was an international association of Trotskyist political parties. Today, two groups claim to be the continuation of the CWI. History Founding The origins of the CWI can be traced to a group of ...

(CWI) - claims to be refoundation of

Committee for a Workers' International (1974) The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) was an international association of Trotskyist political parties. Today, two groups claim to be the continuation of the CWI. History Founding The origins of the CWI can be traced to a group of ...

*Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR) * Fourth International (reunified) * International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) * International Committee of the Fourth International ( Workers Revolutionary Party) *

International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), earlier known as the International Spartacist tendency is a Trotskyist international. Its largest constituent party is the Spartacist League (US). There are smaller sections of the ICL ...

(ICL-FI), previously the International Spartacist Tendency *

International Marxist Tendency The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is an international Trotskyist political tendency founded by Ted Grant and his supporters following their break with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992. The organization's website, Marx ...

(IMT), previously the Committee for a Marxist International *

International Revolutionary Left International Revolutionary Left ( es, Izquierda Revolucionaria Internacional) is a Trotskyist international tendency that split from the Committee for a Workers' International in 2019. Background Following a disagreement with International M ...

, split from CWI *

International Socialist Alternative International Socialist Alternative is an international association of Trotskyist political parties. The group was founded in 1974 as the Committee for a Workers' International, by supporters of Militant from 12 countries. In August 2019, a fa ...

, claims to be successor to

* International Socialist League (ISL-LIS) *

International Socialist Tendency The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain (not to be confused with ...

(IST (post-trotskyist)) *

Internationalist Communist Union The Internationalist Communist Union (French: ''Union Communiste Internationaliste'') is an international grouping of Trotskyist political parties, centred on Lutte Ouvrière in France. It believes that the socialist transformation of society c ...

(ICU) *International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC) *

International Workers League – Fourth International 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 ...

(IWL-FI) * International Workers' Unity – Fourth International (IWU-FI) *

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 ...

(L5I) *

League for the Fourth International The League for the Fourth International (LFI) is a Trotskyist international organization that has bases in Mexico, Brazil, Italy, the United States and Germany. All of these are very small and based in at most one or two cities. Like other in ...

(LFI) plit from (ICL-FI)*League for the Revolutionary Party – Communist Organization for the Fourth International *Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International (OCRFI), split from Fourth International (ICR) in 2016 *

Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International __NOTOC__ 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 "In ...

(TF-FI) *

Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International The Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International (WIRFI) is a Trotskyist international organisation. It was formed and based in the United Kingdom and originally consisted of a remnant of the Workers Revolutionary Party. The organisat ...

(WIRFI) *

International Bolshevik Tendency The International Bolshevik Tendency is a Trotskyist International organisation. History The International Bolshevik Tendency was originally known as the External Tendency (ET) and was formed in 1982 by former members of the International Sparta ...

*Bolshevik Tendency *International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency *Permanent Revolution Collective *International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction *Tendency for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International *Internationalist Trotskyist Nucleus-Fourth International *

Fourth International Posadist The Fourth International Posadist is a Trotskyist international. It was founded in 1962 by J. Posadas, who had been the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International in the 1950s, and of the Fourth International's section in Ar ...

Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International The Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (in Spanish: ''Comité de Enlace por la Reconstrución de la IV Internacional'') is a Trotskyist international organization, based in Latin America. It was generally known by i ...

(CERCI)

Defunct or inactive

*Bolshevik Current for the Fourth International *Collective for an International Conference of the Principled Trotskyism **Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International (LCMRCI), 1995–2004 **Organizing Committee of Principist Trotskyism (Fourth International) *

(CWI), 1974–2019 – split into Committee for a Workers' International (Refounded) and

*Committee for the Fourth International, 1940- *Communist Organisation for a Fourth International, 2003–2007, currently inactive *Coordination Committee for the Construction of the International Workers Party (KoorKom) – dissolved into International Workers' League in 2002 * Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) *Fifth International of Communists *Fourth International (International Committee (FIIC), 1980–1981 *Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International *International Centre for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (CIRQI) *International Centre of Orthodox Trotskyism *

International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International The International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, usually known as the Fourth International, was a Trotskyist political international led by Michel Varga. The group's origins lay in the International Committee of the Fou ...

(ILRFI), 1973–1995 *International Liaison Committee of Communists (ILCC) *International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (TMRI), 1965–1992 – rejoined the

Fourth International (post-reunification) The Fourth International (FI), founded in 1938, is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, following a ten-year schism, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International C ...

*International Trotskyist Opposition *International Workers' Committee *International New Course *Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency (LTT), 1991–1997 *Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (CORQI), 1972–1980 *Organizing Committee of Principist Trotskyism (Fourth International) *

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 F ...

Revolutionary Workers Ferment The Revolutionary Workers Ferment, often known by its Spanish name or initials Fomento Obrero Revolucionario or FOR, was a small left communist international founded by Grandizo Munis, which arose as a split from the Trotskyist Fourth Internation ...

(Fomento Obrero Revolucionario, FOR) * Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1979–1984 *Tendência Quarta Internacionalista *Workers' Voice (formerly Revolutionary Trotskyist League, formerly Revolutionary Trotskyist Tendency) *Revolutionary Communist International Tendency * Fourth International (ICR), also called FI (La Verité) or FI (International Secretariat) 1981-2015 *Socialist Network (Post-Trotskyist, split from IMT)

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