Workers Power is an orthodox Trotskyist group, affiliated to the League for the Fifth International, which they were prime movers in founding. The group in the UK publish a newspaper, also named Workers Power Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Jump to: navigation, search The League for the Fifth International (LFI or L5I) is an international grouping of Trotskyist organisations. ...

They originated in the International Socialists as the Left Faction. Whilst within IS they differed from the majority with regard to their belief that IS needed a fully developed programme, in addition to which they were critical as to the stance IS adopted on IRA terrorist actions. Fist Logo The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist political party in Britain. ... Jump to: navigation, search IRA is an acronym with several different meanings. ... Look up terrorist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In 1974 they were excluded from IS and formed a new group. In 1975 they joined with Workers Fight to form the International-Communist League which split into its constituent parts soon after. In 1980 Workers Power abandoned their position that the 'socialist states' were state capitalist and adopted the idea that they were deformed workers states. They have since changed this position and now hold an orthodox Trotskyist viewpoint that Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries were 'Degenerate Workers States'. Jump to: navigation, search 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... The International Communist League can refer to several Trotskyist political groupings: The name of the International Left Opposition, led by Trotsky, after 1933 and until 1936 when it became known as the Movement for the Fourth International. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Always linked with the Irish Workers Group they have placed a great deal of emphasis on building an international organisation. They founded the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International with the IWG, Group Arbeitermacht in Germany and Pouvoir Ouvrier in France. This added supporters in Austria, Peru and Bolivia and became the League for a Revolutionary Communist International. They then added a group in New Zealand. Jump to: navigation, search There have been two groups which have used the name Irish Workers Group. ... The League for the Fifth International (LFI or L5I) is an international grouping of Trotskyist organisations. ...

Having grown they split and lost most of their supporters in New Zealand, all those in Peru and Bolivia and a few in Europe who formed the LCMRCI. At their international congress in 2003 they adopted a new programme and rebranded themselves the League for the Fifth International. They left the Socialist Alliance in 2003 as in their opinion the Socialist Workers Party was bureaucratically destroying the political independence of that body through its subjection to the then new Respect coalition which Workers Power held to be populist and non socialist in nature. The Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International (Spanish: Comite de Enlace de Militantes por una Internacional Comunista Revolucionaria) was an international organisation of Trotskyist groups, consisting of the following groups: Communist Workers Group - New Zealand Poder Obrero - Bolivia Poder Obrero - Peru Poder Obrero - Colombia Militants in Europe... The Socialist Alliance is a far left electoral alliance in England. ... Fist Logo The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist political party in Britain. ... RESPECT The Unity Coalition is a left wing British political party founded on January 25, 2004 in London. ...

They campaign to build a rank and file movement in the trade unions, and for a new mass workers party in Britain. The group has probably grown in recent years due to work in the student and anti-war movements. However it remains a small organisation. A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...

The League for the Fifth International founded a youth organisation, known as Revolution, which is claimed to be independent though it is admitted to be closely linked with Workers' Power. Revolution, a independent revolutionary socialist youth international, was founded in the UK by Workers Power. ...

External links

• Workers Power website
• The L5I website
• Revolution UK website