The Committee for a Marxist International (also known as the International Marxist Tendency) is a Trotskyist tendency based on the ideas of Ted Grant and Alan Woods. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Edward (Ted) Grant (born July 9, 1913) is a Trotskyist politician. ... Alan Woods was born in Swansea, South Wales in 1944 into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. ...

Grant was the long time leader of the Militant Tendency in the British Labour Party until it split in early 1992 over whether to try to continue working in the Labour Party. The majority formed Militant Labour outside the Labour Party, which subsequentially became the Socialist Party of England and Wales. Grant maintained that Marxists should remain within mainstream Labour. As a result of the surfacing of a document which, it is alleged, showed that Grant and his supporters were planning to split Militant, he and his supporters were expelled from the tendency and formed Socialist Appeal in Britain (which some former members say has the internal name of the Workers' International League. ) The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, accused of entryist tactics. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... Militant Labour was the name of the political party openly formed by members of the RSL/Militant Tendency party when they abandoned the Trotskyist tactic of entryism in 1990. ... The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party active in England and Wales and part of the Committee for a Workers International. ... Socialist Appeal is the publication of a minor British Trotskyist organisation founded by Ted Grant after he left the Militant Tendency. ... Workers International League is the name of a group in the United States formed to sympathise with the Committee for a Marxist International. ...

In 1974, Militant and its co-thinkers from Sweden, Ireland and elsewhere around the world formed the Committee for a Workers International. The faction fight within Militant that led to the expulsion of Grant and Woods also played itself out within the CWI with supporters of the Grant minority leaving to form the CMI. The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. ...

Just as the Grant and Woods led Socialist Appeal tendency pursues a policy of entrism in the British Labour Party, CMI groups outside Britan pursue entrism in equivalents of the Labour Party (where they exist), some Communist Parties such as those in Israel France and Italy and, in some countries, progressive bourgeois parties such as the Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto. Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which a smaller organisation joins a (usually hostile) larger organisation in an attempt to either gain recruits, influence or both. ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, a sociopolitical philosophy based on the particular interpretation of Marxism put forth by Vladimir Lenin. ... The Pakistan Peoples Party is a political party in Pakistan. ... Benazir Bhutto at a Pakistan Peoples Party event in Newark, CA, 28 September 2004. ...

The CMI has elected three MPs in Pakistan (running for the Pakistan Peoples Party) and has developed throughout Latin America, where it now has groups in Venezuela, Peru, Argentina and Mexico. At the end of 2002 it promoted the launching of the solidarity campaign at Hands Off Venezuela which is now active in 30 countries and has had resolutions passed within the trade union movements in Britain, Canada and other countries. One of its most successful section is in Spain, where CMI youth organized the national student organisation Sindicato de Estudiantes. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...

See also: List of Trotskyist internationals This is a list of the many Trotskyist international tendencies. ...

External links

• In Defence of Marxism Official CMI website.