International Socialists
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International Socialists is the name of a number of Trotskyist organizations.
Most organisations using this name are in the International Socialist Tendency
. They are:
International Socialists can also refer to the forerunner of the British Socialist Workers Party
- International Socialists (UK).
Some 'International Socialists' organisations were previously part of the IST
Some 'International Socialists' organisations have not been part of the IST
Most organisations using this name are in the International Socialist Tendency
International Socialist Tendency
The International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations based around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain...
. They are:
- International Socialists (Denmark)International Socialists (Denmark)The International Socialists is a Trotskyist organisation in Denmark.IS was set up in 1984 as split from the Left Socialists. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency led the by the British Socialist Workers Party. The International Socialists are mainly involved in activities aiming at...
(Internationale Socialister) (Denmark) - International Socialists (Sweden)International Socialists (Sweden)The International Socialists is a Trotskyist organisation in Sweden. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency and publishes a paper called Gnistan . It was formed in 2002 by two members of the British Socialist Workers Party who moved to Sweden.Early in 2010 they renamed their paper...
(Internationella Socialister) (Sweden) - International Socialists (Norway)International Socialists (Norway)The International Socialists is a Trotskyist organisation in Norway founded in the early 1980s. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency led by the British Socialist Workers Party....
(Internasjonale Sosialister) (Norway) - International Socialists (Canada)International Socialists (Canada)The International Socialists is a Canadian socialist organization. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency. The I.S. publishes an English-language monthly paper, Socialist Worker and holds an annual Marxism conference every spring in Toronto....
(Canada) - International Socialists (Netherlands)International Socialists (Netherlands)International Socialists is a revolutionary, Trotskyist organisation in the Netherlands. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency led by the British Socialist Workers Party.-Ideology:...
(Internationale Socialisten) (Netherlands) - International Socialists (Brazil) (Socialismo Internacional) (Brazil)
International Socialists can also refer to the forerunner of the British Socialist Workers Party
Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...
- International Socialists (UK).
Some 'International Socialists' organisations were previously part of the IST
- The International Socialist OrganizationInternational Socialist OrganizationThe International Socialist Organization is a revolutionary socialist organization in the United States that identifies with the politics of International Socialism, a current of Trotskyism, and the Marxist political tradition that American socialist writer and activist Hal Draper called...
(USA), was in the IST for many years until its expulsion in 2001. - In 2004, the International Socialists in Ireland merged into Socialist DemocracySocialist Democracy (Ireland)Socialist Democracy is the successor to People's Democracy, a left wing current which emerged in Belfast in 1968 during the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. During the 1970s it evolved towards Trotskyist positions and, by merging with the Dublin-based Movement for a Socialist Republic,...
, the Irish affiliate of the reunified Fourth InternationalReunified Fourth InternationalThe Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International...
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Some 'International Socialists' organisations have not been part of the IST
- International Socialists (USA) now forms part of the larger group SolidaritySolidarity (US)In left-wing politics in the United States, Solidarity is a socialist organization associated with the journal Against the Current. Solidarity is an organizational descendant of International Socialists, a Trotskyist organization based on the proposition that the Soviet Union was not a "degenerate...
. - The International Socialists (Scotland)International Socialists (Scotland)The Socialist Party Scotland is the Scottish platform of the Committee for a Workers International in Solidarity . The group is descended from the Scottish Militant Labour which formed the Scottish Socialist Alliance in 1996 after a debate amongst CWI members in Scotland on what sort of...
is part of the Committee for a Workers International. - The International Socialist MovementInternational Socialist MovementThe International Socialist Movement was a Trotskyist current inside the Scottish Socialist Party from 2001 until March 2006. It came into existence as a change of name by Scottish Militant Labour, the Scottish section of the Committee for a Workers' International...
was a platform within the Scottish Socialist PartyScottish Socialist PartyThe Scottish Socialist Party is a left-wing Scottish political party. Positioning itself significantly to the left of Scotland's centre-left parties, the SSP campaigns on a socialist economic platform and for Scottish independence....
descended from Scottish Militant LabourScottish Militant LabourScottish Militant Labour was a minor political party operating in Scotland in the 1990s and was part of the Committee for a Workers' International...
. It holds 'permanent observer' status within the reunified Fourth InternationalReunified Fourth InternationalThe Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International...
. - The International Socialist GroupInternational Socialist GroupThe International Socialist Group was a Trotskyist organisation in Britain. It was the British section of the Fourth International until July 2009 when it dissolved into Socialist Resistance.- Origin :...
is the British section of the reunified Fourth InternationalReunified Fourth InternationalThe Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International...
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