List of left-wing internationals

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, Anarchism without adjectives)
• 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)^[citation needed]
• 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

References

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11. "International Socialist Tendency". internationalsocialists.org.
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13. "International Trotskyist Committee". itc4.org.
14. "IWL – FI – International Workers League – Fourth International – IWL – FI". www.litci.org. 14 September 2017.
15. "Home". Uit-Ci (in European Spanish). 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
16. "League for the Fifth International – Fighting for a new world party of socialist revolution". www.fifthinternational.org.
17. "Internationalist Group -- Reforge the Fourth International!". www.internationalist.org.
18. "LRP-COFI". www.lrp-cofi.org.
19. "OCRFI-Fourth International". Socialist Organizer. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
20. "Trotskyist Fraction Fourth International". Ft-ci.org. Archived from the original on 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
21. "wirfi – Workers International to rebuild the 4th International". Retrieved 2021-08-24.
22. "International Bolshevik Tendency". www.bolshevik.org.
23. "Bolshevik Tendency - For the rebirth of the Fourth International!". Bolshevik Tendency. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
24. "International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency (ILTT)". Communist Workers Group (CWG-USA). Retrieved 2021-08-21.
25. "Permanent Revolution Collective". www.revolucionpermanente.com. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
26. ".::: FLTI :::". www.flti-ci.org. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
27. "Home - TRCI". trci-web.org. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
28. "NTI-CI". NTI-CI (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-28.
29. "Bienvenue". Quatrième Internationale Posadiste (in French). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
30. wap21 (2022-10-14). "Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists". Platform. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
31. "Balkan Conference". 2012-04-14. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
32. "European Communist Action's Founding Declaration". 27 November 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.

External links

• Media related to Left-wing internationals at Wikimedia Commons
• Lists of leftist organisations