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The phrase Fifth International refers to the efforts made by some sections of the Left to create a new Workers' International. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... “Leftism” redirects here. ... This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. ...

There have been many previous international workers' organisations, and the call for a Fifth International presupposes the recognition of four in particular, all of which regarded themselves as the successor to the previous ones:

1. The International Workingmen's Association, created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1864.
2. The Second International, also known as the Socialist International, was founded in 1889. It is the only one that still exists undisputed (see The Fourth International below) today, but most of its member parties have turned away from socialism.
3. The Communist International (Comintern). It was founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919, in the wake of the Russian Revolution. The Comintern eventually came under the full control of Stalin after his rise to power, and was dissolved in 1943 by Stalin as a concession to the Western Allies who were supporting his government during World War II. It was followed by the Cominform from 1947 to 1956.
4. The Fourth International was founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky, the leader of the communist opposition against Stalinism. It was meant to replace the Comintern, which Trotsky believed to be irreformable and to have crossed over to counter-revolution under the control of a bureaucratic elite in the Soviet Union. However, some Trotskyists argue that the Fourth International broke down politically in the decade following World War II.

For some, the call for a fifth international implies a Trotskyist background, and a belief that the Fourth International and its splits have degenerated sufficiently that calls cannot be made for its refounding. For others, it is an attempt to get away from Trotskyism by declaring the Fourth International from its beginning fundamentally flawed. The International Workingmens Association (IWA), sometimes called the First International, was an international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a 19th century philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... 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Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community[1] for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. ... The Comintern (Russian: Коммунистический Интернационал, Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional – Communist International, also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919, in the midst of the war communism period (1918-1921), by Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including... “Lenin” redirects here. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... 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In November 1938, just two months after the founding congress of the Fourth International, seven members of the POUM on trial in Barcelona declared their support for a "fighting Fifth International". ^[1]. The Argentinean Trotskyist Liborio Justo, better know as "Quebracho", called for a fifth international when he broke from Trotsykism in 1941. ^[2] Another call for a fifth International was made by Lyndon LaRouche after leaving the Spartacist League in 1965 ^[3]. Later, the Fifth International of Communists was founded in 1994 by several very small former Trotskyist groups around the Movement for a Socialist Future. In 2003, the League for a Revolutionary Communist International called for the formation of the Fifth International "as soon as possible - not in the distant future but in the months and years ahead". ^[4] Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista) was a Spanish political party around the time of the Spanish Civil War. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (City of Counts) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006. ... The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), popularly referred to as the Spartacist League and by its critics as The Sparts, is a Trotskyist international organisation based primarily in the United States. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... The Communist League was a small Trotskyist organisation in Britain. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Currently, the forces calling for a Fifth International are limited to the Europe-based League for the Fifth International (LFI), who campaign for its formation in the European Social Forum and the international labour movement in general. The Permanent Revolution Tendency which was expelled from the LFI in 2006 abandoned this view. The little-known International Trotskyist Labor Tendency also calls for a Fifth International.^[5] Logo of the League for the Fifth International The League for the Fifth International (LFI or L5I) is an international grouping of revolutionary Trotskyist organisations. ... The European Social Forum (ESF) is an annual conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement). ... The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

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