Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International

It has its origin in the expelled Internationalist Bolshevik Faction of the Movement for Socialism (MAS). MAS was the Argentine section of the International Workers League (IWL-FI). The Internationalist Bolshevik Faction regarded itself initially as an "external fraction" of the MAS/IWL-FI who had been wrongly expelled, and demanded the overturning of its expulsion.

The Internationalist Bolshevik Faction became the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) in 1988.{{Cite web|url=https://nahuelmoreno.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Balance-Historico-del-MAS.pdf|title=Balance del MAS Período 1987-1992|language=es|access-date=2018-08-07}} In 1989 the Partido Obrero Socialista (POS) in Mexico, later renamed Liga de Trabajadores Socialistas (LTS), was also expelled from the IWL-FI.{{cite web|url=https://ceip.org.ar/Alternativa-Socialista|title=Alternativa Socialista|author=CEIP León Trotsky|website=ceip.org.ar|access-date=13 Aug 2024}} The PTS and the POS founded the Internationalist Faction of the IWL-FI (IFIWL-FI) in 1989.{{cite web|title=Manifiesto de la Fracción Internacionalista de la LIT(CI)|author=PTS and POS|url=https://catalogo.cedinci.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=67653&shelfbrowse_itemnumber=66743 |website=cedinci.org|access-date=13 Aug 2024}}

From 1988 to 1990 the PTS had three splits: first when a number of militants returned to the Argentinian Movement for Socialism (MAS) party, then when another group of militants sympathized with the British Workers Revolutionary Party (Worker Press) and the third when supporters of León Pérez (former member of the International Secretariat of the IWL-FI) decided to follow a mass party perspective (as opposed to a vanguard party).

These splits forced the PTS to make a balance and self-criticism. This resulted in a further development. The PTS and the IFIWL-FI questioned the "update" of the Transitional Program that Nahuel Moreno, the leader of the IWL-FI, had made (his so-called theory of "Democratic Revolution").{{cite web | last=Moreno | first=Nahuel | title=The Transitional Program Now, Nahuel Moreno |year=1980 | website=Marxists Internet Archive | url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/moreno/1980/transitional-program/}} The PTS and the IFIWL-FI regarded Moreno's update as an "anti-Trotskyist revision" of Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ft-ci.org/Polemic-with-the-LIT-and-the-theorical-legacy-of-Nahuel-Moreno?lang=en|title=Polemic with the LIT and the theorical legacy of Nahuel Moreno|last=Romano|first=Manolo|website=www.ft-ci.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-12}} The PTS and the IFIWL-FI broke with Moreno's political tradition/heritage, ideology (termed Morenoism) and tendency (the IWL-FI).{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.org.ar/estrategia/ei3polemica_con_moreno.html|title=Polémica con la LIT y el Legado Teórico de Nahuel Moreno|author=Manolo Romano|website=ft.org.ar|access-date=31 Dec 2013|trans-title=Controversy with the LIT and the Theoretical Legacy of Nahuel Moreno}} The IFIWL-FI was renamed Internationalist Faction.

In 1996 the Trotskyist Fraction - International Strategy was founded. By 2004 it consisted of the PTS of Argentina, the LTS of Mexico (current name MTS), the LOR-CI of Bolivia,{{Cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/lorcuarta/tesisboliviapag1.htm|title=Tesis de la LOR-CI sobre Bolivia. Página 1|date=2009-10-24|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024164709/http://www.geocities.com/lorcuarta/tesisboliviapag1.htm|archive-date=2009-10-24|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-07-12|quote=Reivindicamos y hacemos nuestro por ello el “Manifiesto Programático” de la FT de febrero de 1998 y las principales elaboraciones planteadas en la revista Estrategia Internacional (especialmente desde marzo de 1998 hasta la fecha) sobre la crisis capitalista internacional y el programa necesario para responder a la misma, la situación de los ex estados obreros deformados y degenerados, las potencialidades y límites de la lucha campesina, la reivindicación de la centralidad revolucionaria del proletariado, así como una posición e intervención común ante la guerra de los Balcanes.}} the Estratégia Revolucionaria, current name Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores (MRT), of Brazil and the Clase contra Clase, current name Partido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios (PTR), of Chile as well as some militant sympathizers in Europe. In 2004, in its second international conference, the Trotskyist Fraction - International Strategy decided to change its name to Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International (TF-FI).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ft.org.ar/estrategia/ei21/EI21conferenciaFT.htm|title=Se realizó la Segunda Conferencia de la FT|website=www.ft.org.ar|language=es|access-date=2018-07-12|quote=En este sentido, y dado los avances de los distintos grupos de la FT expresados más arriba, en la conferencia discutimos 'cambiarnos el nombre, llamarnos Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta Internacional (FT-CI) para indicar la relación que hay entre nuestro carácter de tendencia actual y nuestro objetivo de trabajar día a día... hacia la reconstrucción de la Cuarta Internacional'}} Following the economic crisis and demonstrations in several countries, the TF-FI grew in Latin America and Europe, and its manifesto of 2013 called for the formation of a new grouping: An International Movement for a Socialist Revolution - Fourth International.{{Cite web|url=https://www.leftvoice.org/for-a-movement-for-a-revolutionary-socialist-international-the-fourth-international/|title=For a Movement for a Revolutionary Socialist International – The Fourth International|language=en|access-date=2024-08-06}} The manifesto was updated in 2021,{{Cite news|url=https://www.leftvoice.org/the-capitalist-disaster-and-the-struggle-for-an-international-of-socialist-revolution/|title=The Capitalist Disaster and the Struggle for an International of Socialist Revolution|work=Left Voice|access-date=2024-08-06|publisher=Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.leftvoice.org/The-Battles-of-the-Trotskyist-Fraction|title=The Battles of the Trotskyist Fraction|work=Left Voice|access-date=2018-07-12|publisher=Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International|language=en-US}} due to new developments in the international arena.

The largest full section of the TF-FI is the PTS in Argentina.{{cite web|url=https://www.leftvoice.org/reading-list-on-the-trotskyist-fraction/|title=Reading List on the Trotskyist Fraction|work= Left Voice}} After the 2023 Argentine general election the PTS has four national deputies in the National Congress of Argentina: Nicolás del Caño,{{cite web|url=https://www.pts.org.ar/Articulos-Nicolas-del-Cano|title=Nicolás del Caño|publisher=Sitio web del PTS}} Christian Castillo,{{cite web|url=https://www.pts.org.ar/Articulo-Christian-Castillo|title=Christian Castillo|publisher=Sitio web del PTS}} Myriam Bregman,{{cite web|url=https://www.pts.org.ar/articulos-myriam-bregman |title=Myriam Bregman|publisher=Sitio web del PTS}} and Alejandro Vilca.{{cite web|url=https://www.pts.org.ar/Articulos-Alejandro-Vilca|title=Alejandro Vilca|publisher=Sitio web del PTS}}

The Organización Socialista Revolucionaria (Costa Rica), the Frazione Internazionalista Rivoluzionaria (Italy), and the Corriente Socialista de las y los Trabajadores (Peru) became full sections of the TF-FI after endorsing the TF-FI manifesto of 2013.

In 2022 the Révolution Permanente{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2023/04/28/a-l-extreme-gauche-revolution-permanente-tente-de-depoussierer-le-trotskisme_6171390_823448.html|title=A l’extrême gauche, Révolution permanente tente de dépoussiérer le trotskisme|publisher=Le Monde|website=lemonde.fr|access-date=2024-07-20}} in France became a full section of the TF-FI. Le Journal du Dimanche noted the rising domination of the Révolution Permanente and its youth group, the Le Poing Levé, during the strikes against the French pension reform of 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lejdd.fr/politique/le-poing-leve-lorganisation-etudiante-qui-veut-aider-les-travailleurs-bloquer-le-pays-134877|title=Le Poing Levé, l’organisation étudiante qui veut « aider les travailleurs à bloquer le pays »|publisher=Le Journal du Dimanche|website=www.lejdd.fr|access-date=2024-08-05}} Le Monde remarked that the Révolution Permanente's "media visibility" was "disproportionate" to its size during the 2023 protests. According to Arrêt sur images the website of the Révolution Permanente has become indispensable to striking workers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/les-recettes-de-revolution-permanente-le-media-militant-qui-monte|title=Révolution Permanente, le média militant qui monte|publisher=Arrêt sur images|website=www.arretsurimages.net|access-date=2024-08-06}} According to La Croix, Adèle Haenel, Assa Traoré and Frédéric Lordon are supporters of the organization.{{Cite web|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Adele-Haenel-quest-Revolution-permanente-collectif-dextreme-gauche-lactrice-rejoint-2023-05-10-1201266798|title= Adèle Haenel : qu’est-ce que Révolution permanente, le collectif d’extrême gauche que l’actrice a rejoint?|publisher= La Croix|website=la-croix.com|access-date=2024-08-10}}

Former sections:

• {{flag|France}} Groupe Communiste Revolutionaire Internationaliste (Revolutionary Internationalist Communist Group) (CRI) - They were admitted in 2008 as sympathiser section of TF-FI,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ft-ci.org/Gran-acto-de-cierre-de-la-V-Conferencia-Internacionalista?lang=es|title=Gran acto de cierre de la V Conferencia Internacionalista|language=es|access-date=2018-07-17|quote=A su vez, se anunció la incorporación de la LRS de Costa Rica como sección plena de la FT en ese país centroamericano, y del Grupo CRI como sección simpatizante de la FT-CI en Francia.}} but after the creation of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) they decided to dissolve within the CLAIRE Tendency of the NPA (acronym for "Tendency for Communism and self-organized, internationalist and revolutionary struggle").{{Cite web|url=http://groupecri.free.fr/article.php?id=433|title=Groupe CRI {{!}} Lettre publique du Groupe CRI à la LCR concernant son projet de thèses politiques pour le nouveau parti anticapitaliste|website=groupecri.free.fr|access-date=2018-07-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ft-ci.org/Carta-desde-Francia|title=Carta desde Francia|last=Francia|first=FT-CI|website=www.ft-ci.org|language=es|access-date=2018-07-12|quote="Ustedes informan especialmente sobre los análisis y el combate llevado adelante por los firmantes del proyecto de Tendencia que defiende el Comunismo, la Revolución y la Autoorganización (convertida el 14 de febrero en Tendance CLAIRE del NPA – Por el Comunismo, la Lucha Autoorganizada, Internacionalista y Revolucionaria). Ustedes mencionan correctamente que el Groupe CRI ha sido quien propuso este proyecto de Tendencia. Pero ustedes omiten aclarar que el Groupe CRI es, en Francia, la sección simpatizante de la FTCI (de la que el PTS es la sección argentina)."}} Later, in 2010, the TF-FI militants and the CLAIRE-tendency created "The Collective for a Revolutionary Tendency" inside NPA, which was dissolved after NPA's first congress (February 10 - February 13 2011).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft-ci.org/Que-es-el-Colectivo-por-una-Tendencia-Revolucionaria|title=¿Qué es el Colectivo por una Tendencia Revolucionaria?|website=ft-ci.org|access-date=2024-07-20}} In April 2011 the "Revolutionary Communist Current" (CCR) was officially founded by the TF-FI militants,{{Cite web|url=https://www.leftvoice.org/the-terminal-crisis-of-the-npa/|title=The Terminal Crisis of the NPA|website=leftvoice.org|access-date=2024-07-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft-ci.org/El-problema-no-es-el-portavoz-sino-la-orientacion-y-el-tipo-de-partido-que-queremos-construir?lang=es/|title=El problema no es el portavoz, sino la orientación y el tipo de partido que queremos construir|website=ft-ci.org|access-date=2024-07-20}} after leaving the CLAIRE-tendency in February 13 2011.{{cite web|language=fr|author=CLAIR|title=Archive : historique de la Tendance CLAIRE en tant que tendance du NPA|url=https://tendanceclaire.org/article.php?id=1950|date=17 June 2024}} The CCR was expelled from the NPA in June 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2021/06/12/scission-ou-exclusion-le-npa-secoue-par-une-importante-crise-interne_6083861_823448.html|title=Scission ou exclusion ? Le NPA secoué par une importante crise interne|publisher=Le Monde|website=lemonde.fr|access-date=2024-07-20}} In December 2022 the CCR became the Révolution Permanente, the current section of the TF-FI.{{Cite web|url=https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Bases-politiques-d-une-nouvelle-organisation-revolutionnaire|title=Bases politiques d’une nouvelle organisation révolutionnaire|publisher=Révolution Permanente|website=revolutionpermanente.fr|access-date=2024-07-20}}
• {{flag|Costa Rica}} Socialist Revolution League (Liga de la Revolución Socialista) (LRS) - Admitted in 2008 as full section, but they dissolved in 2014.

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