List of left-wing internationals explained

This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist, and other left-wing internationals. An "International" — such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" — may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical liberal, socialist, or organized labour organizations, typically composed of national sections.

Existing internationals

Global internationals

Progressive, social democratic, anti-capitalist, and socialist internationals

• Socialist International (Democratic socialism, Social democracy)
• Progressive Alliance (Progressivism)
• Progressive International (Progressivism, Anti-capitalism)
• International Peoples' Assembly (Progressivism, Anti-capitalism)
• Horizon Federation (Libertarian socialism)^[1]

Classical Marxist and left-communist internationals

• World Socialist Movement (Classical Marxism)
• International Communist Current (Left communism)
• International Communist Party (Left communism)
• Internationalist Communist Tendency (Left communism)

See also: Internationalist Communist Party and Communist Workers' Organisation

Anarchist internationals

• International of Anarchist Federations (Synthesis anarchism, Anarcho-communism)
• International Workers' Association (Anarcho-syndicalism)
• International Confederation of Labour (Anarcho-syndicalism)
• anarkismo.net (Anarcho-communism, platformism)

Marxist–Leninist, Maoist and Hoxhaist internationals

• International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (Marxism–Leninism)
• International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (Marxism–Leninism)
• International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle) (Hoxhaism)
• International Communist League (Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, Gonzalo Thought)

Trotskyist, Posadist and post-Trotskyist internationals

• Committee for a Workers' International (Trotskyist) – claims to be refoundation of Committee for a Workers' International (1974)^[2]
• Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment^[3] (Trotskyist)
• Fourth International (reunified)^[4] (Trotskyist)
• International Committee of the Fourth International^[5] (Trotskyist)
• International Committee of the Fourth International^[6] (Trotskyist) – associated with the Workers Revolutionary Party
• International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)^[7] (Trotskyist) – previously known as the International Spartacist Tendency
• Revolutionary Communist International^[8] (Trotskyist) – previously known as the International Marxist Tendency and the Committee for a Marxist International
• International Revolutionary Left^[9] (Trotskyist)
• International Socialist Alternative^[10] (Trotskyist) – claims to be successor to Committee for a Workers' International (1974)
• International Socialist Tendency^[11] (Post-Trotskyist)
• Internationalist Communist Union^[12] (Trotskyist)
• International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International^[13] (Trotskyist)
• International Workers League – Fourth International^[14] (Trotskyist)
• International Workers' Unity – Fourth International^[15] (Trotskyist)
• League for the Fifth International^[16] (Trotskyist)
• League for the Fourth International^[17] (Trotskyist)
• League for the Revolutionary Party – Communist Organization for the Fourth International^[18] (Trotskyist)
• Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International^[19] (Trotskyist)
• Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International^[20] (Trotskyist)
• Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International^[21] (Trotskyist)
• International Bolshevik Tendency^[22] (Trotskyist)
• Bolshevik Tendency^[23] (Trotskyist)
• International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency^[24] (Trotskyist)
• Permanent Revolution Collective^[25] (Trotskyist)
• International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction^[26] (Trotskyist)
• Tendency for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International^[27] (Trotskyist)
• Internationalist Trotskyist Nucleus-Fourth International^[28] (Trotskyist)
• Fourth International Posadist^[29] (Posadist)
• Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (Trotskyist)

Anti-imperialist internationals

• International League of Peoples' Struggle
• World Anti-Imperialist Platform^[30]

Green and ecologist internationals

• World Ecological Parties (Ecologist)
• Global Greens (Green)

Regional internationals

• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001) (Marxism–Leninism, Post-Soviet states)
• Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia (Maoism, South Asia)
• European Anti-Capitalist Left (Democratic socialism, Europe)
• Foro de São Paulo (Anti-neoliberalism, Latin America)
• Now the People (Democratic socialism, Europe)
• Party of the European Left (Socialism, Europe)
• Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (Leftism, Latin America and the Caribbean)
• Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Marxism–Leninism, Post-Soviet states)
• Conference of Communist and Worker's Parties of the Balkans (Marxism–Leninism, Balkans)^[31]
• European Communist Action (Marxism–Leninism, Europe)^[32]

Defunct internationals

• League of the Just (Christian communism, 1839 - 1847)
• Communist League (Marxism, 1847 - 1852)
• International Workingmen's Association ("First International") (Marxism, 1864 - 1876)
• Anarchist St. Imier International, (Collectivist anarchism, 1872 - 1877)
• International Working People's Association ("Black International") (Insurrectionary anarchism, Anarcho-collectivism, Anarcho-communism, 1881 - 1887)
• Second International (Marxism, 1889 - 1916)
• International Working Union of Socialist Parties ("2½ International") (Centrist Marxism, 1921 - 1923)
• Communist International ("Third International") (Marxism–Leninism, 1919 - 1943)
• Communist Workers' International (Council communism (1922 - mid-1920s)
• Labour and Socialist International (Socialism, 1923 - 1940)
• International Revolutionary Marxist Centre ("3½ International") (Centrist Marxism, 1932 - 1940s)
• Fourth International (Trotskyism, 1938 - 1953)
• Revolutionary Workers Ferment (Left communism, 1948 - unknown)
• Situationist International (Situationism, 1957 - 1971)
• International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (Trotskyism, 1973 - 1995)
• Committee for a Workers' International (Trotskyism, 1974 - 2019)
• Trotskyist International Liaison Committee (Trotskyism, 1979 - 1984)
• Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, 1984 - 2012)
• International Communist Seminar (Marxism–Leninism, 1992 - 2014)
• International Libertarian Solidarity (Anarchism, 2001 - 2005)
• International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (International Newsletter) (Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, 1988 - 2017)
• Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (Trotskyism, 2004 - 2017)
• Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties (Marxism–Leninism, Europe, 2013 - 2023)

See also

• List of Trotskyist internationals
• Fifth International
• List of international labor organizations
• Political international

External links

• • Lists of leftist organisations

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2024-08-08 . Horizon . 2024-08-09 . Democratic Socialists of America's Libertarian Socialist Caucus.
2. News: 25 July 2019 . Refounding the Committee for a Workers' International on the basis of a Trotskyist programme and method . socialistworld.net . Committee for a Workers' International . 28 October 2020.
3. Web site: Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR) . 2020-04-19 . Freedom Socialist Party . en-US.
4. Web site: Fourth International . fourth.international/en.
5. Web site: World Socialist Web Site – Marxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism . www.wsws.org.
6. Web site: International .
7. Web site: International Communist League . www.icl-fi.org.
8. Web site: Socialist Appeal .
9. Web site: 29 July 2019 . Founding Congress of the International Revolutionary Left . 5 February 2020 . Izquierda Revolucionaria . es-ES.
10. News: INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE EDITORIAL BOARD . 8 February 2020 . International Socialist Alternative Launched . International Socialist Alternative . International Socialist Alternative . 28 October 2020.
11. Web site: International Socialist Tendency . internationalsocialists.org.
12. Web site: Internationalist Communist Union – Workers of the world, unite! . www.union-communiste.org.
13. Web site: International Trotskyist Committee . itc4.org.
14. Web site: 14 September 2017 . IWL – FI – International Workers League – Fourth International – IWL – FI . www.litci.org.
15. Web site: 2021-03-14 . Home . 2021-08-24 . Uit-Ci . es-ES.
16. Web site: League for the Fifth International – Fighting for a new world party of socialist revolution . www.fifthinternational.org.
17. Web site: Internationalist Group -- Reforge the Fourth International! . www.internationalist.org.
18. Web site: LRP-COFI . www.lrp-cofi.org.
19. Web site: OCRFI-Fourth International . 2021-08-24 . Socialist Organizer . en.
20. Web site: Trotskyist Fraction Fourth International . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180220033058/http://www.ft-ci.org/?lang=en . 2018-02-20 . 2018-09-20 . Ft-ci.org.
21. Web site: wirfi – Workers International to rebuild the 4th International. . 2021-08-24 . en-US.
22. Web site: International Bolshevik Tendency . www.bolshevik.org.
23. Web site: Bolshevik Tendency - For the rebirth of the Fourth International! . 2021-08-24 . Bolshevik Tendency . en-GB.
24. Web site: International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency (ILTT) . 2021-08-21 . Communist Workers Group (CWG-USA) . en-US.
25. Web site: Permanent Revolution Collective . 2021-09-13 . www.revolucionpermanente.com.
26. Web site: .::: FLTI :::. . 2021-09-13 . www.flti-ci.org.
27. Web site: Home - TRCI . 2021-08-21 . trci-web.org.
28. Web site: NTI-CI . 2021-10-28 . NTI-CI . es-ES.
29. Web site: Bienvenue . 2021-08-22 . Quatrième Internationale Posadiste . fr-FR.
30. Web site: wap21 . 2022-10-14 . Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists . 2023-09-27 . Platform . en-US.
31. Web site: 2012-04-14 . Balkan Conference . https://web.archive.org/web/20120414235027/http://www.balkanconference.net/english/pages/english/members.html . 2012-04-14 . 2022-09-29 .
32. Web site: European Communist Action's Founding Declaration. 27 November 2023. 1 December 2023.