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The Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International is a
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 ...
of
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 ...
political organizations that claim to adhere to the political legacy 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 ...
. 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 (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
In Marxist theory, a transitional demand either is a partial realisation of a maximum demand after revolution or an agitational demand made by a socialist organisation with the aim of linking the current situation to progress towards their goal o ...
(the so-called the "Theory of Democratic Revolution") that the leader of the International Workers League
Nahuel Moreno
Nahuel Moreno (real name Hugo Miguel Bressano Capacete; April 24, 1924 – January 25, 1987) was a Trotskyism, Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from 1942 until his death.
Biography 1950s–1960s
Durin ...
made, understanding it as an opposition to
Leon Trotsky's Theory of
Permanent Revolution.
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 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
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List of Trotskyist internationals
This is a list of Trotskyist internationals. It includes all of the many political internationals which self-identify as Trotskyist.
Of the organizations listed, three claim to be the original Fourth International founded in 1938: the reunified F ...
References
External links
Trotskyist Fraction
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