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Encyclopedia > International Marxist Tendency
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Trotskyism

Leon Trotsky
Fourth International
Politics is a process by which decisions are made within groups. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (919x1134, 8 KB) Logo Vierte Internationale (Fourth International) Vectorized and exported version in PNG format of Image:Logo of the Fourth International. ... (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... The Fourth International (FI) has been a socialist international organisation working in opposition to both capitalism and to Stalinism. Consisting of supporters of Trotsky, it has striven for an eventual victory of the working class to bring about socialism. ...

Marxism
Leninism
Russian Revolution
Marxism refers to the philosophy and social theory on one hand, and to the political practice based on Marxist theory on the other hand (namely, parts of the First International during Marxs time, communist parties and later states). ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is therefore a branch of Marxism. ... The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution or November Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ...

Prominent Trotskyists
James P. Cannon
Tony Cliff
Ted Grant
Joseph Hansen
Gerry Healy
Alain Krivine
Arlette Laguiller
Pierre Lambert
Livio Maitan
Ernest Mandel
Nahuel Moreno
J. Posadas
Max Shachtman
Peter Taaffe
Alan Woods James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... Tony Cliff (May 20, 1917 – May 9, 2000) was a Trotskyist revolutionary activist. ... Edward (Ted) Grant (born July 9, 1913) is a Trotskyist politician. ... Joseph Hansen (1910-1979), was an American Communist and leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party. ... Gerry Healy (December 3, 1913 - December 14, 1989) was a Trotskyist activist. ... Alain Krivine is a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. ... Arlette Laguiller (born March 18, 1940) is the spokeswoman and by far the best known leader of the Lutte Ouvrière French Trotskyist political party. ... Pierre Lambert (born June 9, 1920) (real name Pierre Boussel) is a French Trotskyist leader. ... Livio Maitan was an Italian Trotskyist, leader of Assoziazione Bandiera Rossa. ... Ernest Mandel Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. ... Nahuel Moreno (April 24, 1924 - January 25, 1987) (real name Hugo Bressano) was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. ... J. Posadas (1912-1981) (occasionally referred to as Juan Posadas), was the pseudonym of Homero Cristali, an Argentinian Trotskyist. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. ... Peter Taaffe is a Trotskyist political figure and general secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales. ... Alan Woods is a British activist born in Swansea, South Wales in 1944 into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. ...

Trotskyist groups
CWI · ICFI · ICU
IMT · IST
reunified FI
This is a list of the many Trotskyist international tendencies. ... The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. ... The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is a Trotskyist international. ... The Internationalist Communist Union (in French, Union Communiste Internationaliste) is an international grouping of Trotskyist political parties, centred on Lutte Ouvrière in France. ... The International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of organisations around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK. It has sections across the world, however its strongest presence is in Europe, especially in the UK, Greece and Ireland. ... The reunified Fourth International was created in 2003 by the reunification of the majorities of two public factions of the Fourth International: the International Secretariat of the Fourth International (ISFI) and the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). ...

Branches
Orthodox Trotskyism
Third camp
The third camp, also known as third camp socialism or third camp Trotskyism, is a branch of Trotskyism which aims to oppose both capitalism and Stalinism by supporting the organised working class as a third camp. This approach was developed by Max Shachtman and is one of the major components...

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


Grant was a 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. Grant argued that leaving Labour would amount to throwing away many decades of patient work and maintained that Marxists should remain within the party. However, he and his supporters were expelled from the tendency and together with Alan Woods he formed Socialist Appeal in Britain. It has been suggested that Militant (Britain) be merged into this article or section. ... 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. ... Alan Woods is a British activist born in Swansea, South Wales in 1944 into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. ... Socialist Appeal is the publication of a minor British Trotskyist organisation founded by Ted Grant after he left the Militant Tendency. ...


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 Committee for a Marxist International in other countries than Britain, which later became known as the "International Marxist Tendency". 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, IMT groups outside Britain pursue entrism in equivalents of the Labour Party (where they exist), some Communist Parties such as those in France and Italy and, in some countries, progressive bourgeois parties (or "popular-front parties" as they are sometimes called by some Marxists) such as the Pakistan Peoples' Party of Benazir Bhutto. This work, however, is always combined with independent work outside these parties. 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, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو) (b. ...


In 2006, the organisation was renamed the "International Marxist Tendency". [citation needed]


The IMT has at least one MP in Pakistan (who ran as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party) and has spread to parts of 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, Italy and other countries. One of its larger sections is in Spain, where IMT youth organised 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

This is a list of the many Trotskyist international tendencies. ...

External links

  • In Defence of Marxism Official IMT website
  • Der Funke IMT Austrian supporters
  • Fightback IMT Canadian supporters
  • FalceMartello IMT Italian supporters
  • Militante IMT Mexican supporters
  • The Struggle IMT Pakistani supporters
  • El Militante IMT Spanish supporters
  • Workers' International League IMT US supporters
  • Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria IMT Venezuelan supporters

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Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1191 words)
The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, accused of entryist tactics.
Although, as Marxists they did not really share the same analysis of much of the rest of the Labour Party, they were a visible component of that coalition.
Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press, although most of the councils attacked as 'loony' were in fact influenced by the soft-left ideas of Tribune.
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