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International Workers' Unity (Fourth International) (Spanish: Unidad Internacional de los Trabajadores (Cuarta Internacional))is a Trotskyist international organisation. It has members in South America, Western Europe and the CIS. Members include Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores in Argentina, Corriente Socialista de los Trabajadores in Brazil, and Movimiento por el Socialismo in Portugal. It constituent organisations were originally breakaway factions of their respective national sections of the International Workers league (Fourth International) or LIT as it is known. Both the LIT and UIT claim to stand in the political tradition of Nahuel Moreno. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (in Russian: СодÑÑжеÑÑво ÐезавиÑимÑÑ ÐоÑÑдаÑÑÑв (СÐÐ) - Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv) is a confederation or alliance consisting of 12 former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. ...