United Secretariat of the Fourth International
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The United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) is the largest Trotskyist international organisation. Its major section is the Revolutionary Communist League in France.
The USFI was created in 1963 by the merger of two factions of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International (ISFI) and the U.S. Socialist Workers Party, who had been on opposing sides of the split in the Fourth International in 1953. The SWP had always been viewed as the organisation in the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) closest to the ISFI, and the key factor in the rapproachment was their shared positive perspective on the Cuban Revolution.
The organisation suffered many splits over the following years, most notably when the SWP left in 1983, but remains the largest and probably the most widespread Trotskyist international.
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Member Organizations
- Algeria - Socialist Workers Party (Parti Socialiste des Travailleurs / Akhabar Anemlay Nikhedamen /Hizb al-Ummal al-Ishtiraki, PST)
- Austria - Socialist Alternative (Sozialistische Alternative, SOAL)
- Belgium - Socialist Workers' Party (Socialistische Arbeiders Partij / Parti Ouvrier Socialiste, SAP/POS)
- Bolivia - Revolutionary Workers Party
- Brazil - Socialist Democracy (Democracia Socialista)
- Canada - Fourth International Caucus
- Canada / Quebec - Gauche Socialiste (GS)
- Chile - Revolutionary Socialist Tendency (Tendencia Socialista Revolucionario)
- Denmark - Socialist Workers' Party (Socialistisk Arbejderparti, SAP)
- Ecuador - Socialist Democracy Current (Corriente Democracia Socialista)
- Egypt - Section of the Fourth International (United Secretariat)
- France - Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, LCR)
- Germany - International Socialist Left (de:internationale sozialistische linke, isl)
- Germany - Revolutionary Socialist League (de:Revolutionär Sozialistischer Bund, RSB)
- Great Britain - International Socialist Group (ISG)
- Greece - Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece-Spartacus (Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Ellados-Spartakos, OKDE-Spartakos)
- Guadeloupe - Socialist Revolution Group (Groupe Révolution Socialiste, GRS)
- India - Revolutionary Communist Organization (Inquilabi Communist Sangathan)
- Ireland - Socialist Democracy
- Italy - Bandiera Rossa Association (Associazione Bandiera Rossa, ABR)
- Japan - Fourth International Japan Section Reconstruction Preparation Group (Dayon Intânashonaru Nihon Shibu Saiken Jumbi Gurûpu, Dayon Intâ Saiken-ha)
- Japan - Fourth International Womens Liberation Group (Dayon Intâ Josei Kaihô Gurûpu, Dayon Intâ Jokai G)
- Lebanon - Revolutionary Communist Group (Tajammu' al-Shuyu'i al-Thawri / Groupe Communiste Révolutionnaire)
- Luxembourg - Revolutionary Socialist Party (Revolutionär Sozialistesch Partei /Parti Socilaiste Révolutionnaire)
- Martinique - Socialist Revolution Group (Groupe Révolution Socialiste, GRS)
- Netherlands - Socialist Workers' Party (Socialistiese Arbeiderspartij)
- Norway - Internationalist League of Norway (Forbundet Internasjonalen i Norge, FIN)
- Paraguay - Section of USFI
- Philippines - Revolutionary Workers Party - Mindanao (Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa - Mindanao)
- Portugal - Revolutionary Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Revolucionário, PSR)
- Puerto Rico - Political Education Workshop (Taller de Formación Política, TFP)
- Spain - Alternative Left (Izquierda Alternativa, IA)
- Spain / Catalonia - Collective for an Alternative Left (Col.lectiu per una Esquerra Alternativa, CEA)
- Sri Lanka - New Equal Society Party (Nava Sama Samaja Pakshaya, NSSP)
- Sweden - Socialist Party (Socialistiska Partiet, SP)
- Switzerland - Socialist Alternative / Solidarity (Sozialistische Alternative / Solidarität, SOAL)
- Tunisia - Revolutionary Communist Organization (Organisation Communiste Révolutionnaire)
- Turkey - New Way (Yeni Yol)
- Uruguay - Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores)
- USA - Fourth International Caucus
USFI youth groups
- Greece - OKDE Youth Circles
- Germany - Red Sting
- France - Revolutionary Communist Youth
- Belgium - Socialist Youth Guard
- Luxembourg - Revolutionary Socialist Youth
- Denmark - Rebel
- Sweden - Socialist Youth
- USA - Youth for Socialist Action
Sympathising Organizations and ex-official Sections
- Australia - Socialist Democracy
- Canada - Socialist Action
- Hong Kong - October Review Group (Shih Yueh P'ing Lun)
- Japan - Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Nihon Kakumeiteki Kyôsanshugisha Dômei, JRCL)
- Japan - National Committee of Internationalist Workers (Kokusaishugi Rôdôsha Zenkoku Kyôgikai)
- South Korea - Power of the Working Class (No-dong-ja-euy Him)
- Mexico - Revolutionary Workers' Party (Partido Revolucionario de los y las Trabajadores)
- Mexico - Revolutionary Workers' Party-Socialist Convergence (Partido Revolucionario de los y las Trabajadores-Convergencia Socialista)
- Mexico - Socialist Unity League (Liga de Unidad Socialista, LUS)
- Pakistan- Labour Party Pakistan - close to USFI
- Poland - Revolutionary Left Current (Nurt Lewicy Rewolucyjnej, NLR)
- South Africa - Workers Organization for Socialist Action
- USA - Socialist Action
Organizations including USFI supporters
- Canada - New Socialist Group
- France / Corsica - Movement of the National Left (Muvimentu di a Manca Naziunale) - a current within
- Germany - Association for Solidarity Perspectives (Verein für Solidarische Perspektiven)
- Paraguay - Socialist Popular Convergence Party (Partido Convergencia Popular Socialista)
- Senegal - Act Together/African Party for Democracy and Socialism (And Jëf/Parti africain pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, AJ/PADS) - a current within
- Spain - Alternative Space (Espacio Alternativo)
- Alternative Galicia (Galiza Alternativa)
- Alternative Left (Izquierda Alternativa, IA)
- Alternative Space (Espai Alternatiu)
- Andalusian Revolutionary Space (Espacio Revolucionario Andaluz)
- Rainbow (Arcoiris)
- Shock (Batzac)
- Stand up (Zutik) - a current within
- Syria - Party of Communist Action (Hizb al-'Amal al-Shuyu'i / Parti d'Action Communiste) - a current within
- Switzerland - Movement for Socialism (Bewegung für den Sozialismus / Mouvement pour le Socialisme, BFS/MPS)
- Turkey - Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanisma Partisi, ÖDP) - a current within
- USA - Labor Standard
- USA - Solidarity
See also
External links
- USFI (http://www.isg-fi.org.uk/fi/fi1.htm)de:Vierte Internationale (Vereinigtes Sekretariat)