Committee for a Workers' International
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The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. Members include the Socialist Party of England and Wales, the Socialist Party (Ireland), the Socialist Party (Australia) the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa and Nigeria and groups using the name Socialist Alternative in the United States, Canada and New Zealand along with parties in Sweden, Germany - representatives in 40 countries worldwide making the CWI the second largest Trotskyist international after the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
The CWI was founded in 1974 by supporters of what was then called the Militant Tendency in Britain, Sweden, Ireland and several other countries. Until the early 1990s CWI sections pursued a policy of entrism into social democratic or labour parties but this largely ended in the 1990s due to an analysis that these parties had become bourgeoisified and were no longer mass workers parties. This was strongly resisted by Ted Grant, Militant's founder, who was expelled in 1992 after he and his supporters stopped paying dues in preparation of founding their own organisation which became the Committee for a Marxist International.
Since their open turn CWI sections have, in a number of countries, run candidates under their own name electing Joe Higgins to the Irish Dáil Éireann as the Socialist Party as well as several councillors in Britain, specifically in London and Coventry. The CWI also has elected members of national or regional legislatures or local councils in Sweden, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands (members of the Dutch Socialist Party who are also CWI members) and in the ex-Soviet Union.
CWI members also played a leading role in founding the Scottish Socialist Party though, due to a split, leading SSP members such as Tommy Sheridan are no longer in the CWI.
List of CWI sections:
- Australia - Socialist Party (www.socialistpartyaustralia.org, sp@mira.net )
- Austria - Sozialistische Linkspartei (Socialist Left Party, www.slp.at, slp@slp.at )
- Belgium (Flemish)- Linkse Socialistische Partij (Socialist Left Party, http://www.lsp-mas.be/lsp/index.php, lspmas@skynet.be )
- Belgium (French) Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste (Movement for a Socialist Alternative, [http://www.socialisme.be www.socialisme.be, lspmas@skynet.be )
- Brazil - Socialismo Revolucionario (Revolutionary Socialism, sr-cio@uol.com.br )
- Canada - Socialist Alternative ( socialist@canada.com, www.socialistalternative.ca )
- Chile - Socialismo Revolucionario (Revolutionary Socialism)
- Cyprus - CWI Cyprus
- Czech Republic - Socialistická alternativa Budoucnost (Socialist Alternative the Future)
- England & Wales - Socialist Party of England and Wales
- France - Gauche Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Left)
- Germany - Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) (Socialist Alternative)
- Greece - Xekinima - Socialist Internationalist Organisation
- Ireland - Socialist Party
- India - Dudiyora Horaata ( dudiyorahoraata@vsnl.net )
- Israel- Maavak Sozialisti (Socialist Struggle)
- Italy - Lotta per il Socialismo (Struggle for Socialism)
- Japan - Kokusai Rentai ( kokusairentai@hotmail.com )
- Kazakhstan - Molodaya Gvardia
- Netherlands - Offensief
- New Zealand - Socialist Alternative
- Nigeria - Democratic Socialist Movement (www.socialistnigeria.org, dsmcentre@hotmail.com )
- Pakistan - The Socialist Movement
- Poland - Grupa na rzecz Partii Robotnicze (Group for a Workers Party)
- Portugal - Alternativa Socialista (Socialist Alternative)
- Russia - Sotsialisticheskoye Soprotivleniye (Socialist Resistance)
- Scotland - International Socialists
- Spain - Manifiesto (Manifesto)
- Sri Lanka - United Socialist Party ( usp@wow.lk )
- South Africa - Democratic Socialist Movement ( democraticsocialist@mweb.co.za )
- Sweden - Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (Socialist Justice Party)
- Ukraine - Robitnichi Sprotiv (Workers Resistance)
- United States - Socialist Alternative
External links
- SocialistWorld.net (http://www.socialistworld.net/) CWI News and analysis
- Marxist.net (http://www.marxist.net) CWI Theoretical site
- Socialist Party publications (http://www.socialistparty.net/publications.htm) and Socialist Alternative literature (http://www.socialistalternative.org/literature.html) - Two sites containing links to many publications of the CWI.