Fourth International

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The Fourth International is a global association of Trotskyist organizations founded in 1938 to continue revolutionary socialist and internationalist traditions in opposition to both capitalism and Stalinism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Trotskyist international organization
political international
alsoKnownAs World Party of Socialist Revolution
basedOn theory of permanent revolution
transitional program
coreConcept democratic workers' councils
proletarian internationalism
world socialist revolution
countryOfOrigin France
foundedBy Ernest Mandel
James P. Cannon
Leon Trotsky
Pierre Frank
Rudolf Klement
hasIdeologicalPredecessor Comintern
surface form: Communist International

Left Opposition
hasMemberOrganization Revolutionary Communist League (France)
Revolutionary Socialist League (Britain)
Socialist Workers Party (United States)
hasOrgan International Committee of the Fourth International
surface form: International Executive Committee of the Fourth International

Fourth International self-linksurface differs
surface form: International Secretariat of the Fourth International
hasSplitInto Committee for a Workers' International
International Committee of the Fourth International
International Committee of the Fourth International
surface form: International Workers League – Fourth International

United Secretariat of the Fourth International
historicalPeriod Cold War
interwar period
ideology Marxism
Trotskyism
revolutionary socialism
inception 1938
inceptionEvent Founding Congress of the Fourth International
inceptionPlace Paris
language English
French
Russian
Spanish
motto Workers of the world, unite
opposedTo Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
fascism
imperialism
social democracy
politicalAlignment anti-Stalinist
anti-capitalist
internationalist
position far-left
programDocument The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
purpose to continue the revolutionary socialist and internationalist traditions of Marxism
to oppose Stalinism
to oppose capitalism

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The Transitional Program associatedWith Fourth International
Leon Trotsky founderOf Fourth International
Fourth International hasOrgan Fourth International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: International Secretariat of the Fourth International
Permanent Revolution influenced Fourth International
The Revolution Betrayed influenced Fourth International
Their Morals and Ours mainSubject Fourth International
Natalia Sedova memberOf Fourth International
Leon Trotsky movement Fourth International
Trotskyism organizationalForm Fourth International
The Transitional Program publisher Fourth International
The Transitional Program subject Fourth International
Left Opposition successor Fourth International