International Socialist Tendency

The International Socialist Tendency (IST ) is an international grouping of socialist organizations that relate to the ideas of Tony Cliff. Cliff is the founder of the British Socialist Workers Party. The IS has the world sections, most it is in Europe, particularly in Great Britain and Ireland.

Policy status

Politically similar to the IS many other Trotskyist International. The main differences relate to the assessment of the Soviet Union, which is seen by the IS as state capitalism, and not as a degenerated workers' state, and to the theories of the permanent arms economy and the permanent revolution.

Unlike many other similar groups, the IS has no formal organizational structures and also keeps their decisions covered. The only publicly known has become final the IS is the separation of the U.S. International Socialist Organization.

History

The origin of the IS goes back to the British Socialist Review Group, whose members - among them Tony Cliff - were launched in the 1950s from the Fourth International.

In the 1960s, established the IS connections to insurgent movements in a number of countries, which led to the founding of there IS groups. Probably the first such group were the Irish International Socialists (1971 ), other groups were founded shortly thereafter in Australia, Canada and West Germany ( Socialist Workers group SAG). In addition, links to the U.S. Independent Socialists were built, which later became the International Socialist Organization should be; the ISUS split due to the contacts to IS 1978.

A formal organizational structure for the IS did not exist, but it came in the 1970s to meet the leadership of the International Socialist Group, usually in conjunction with the Marxist Summer School of the Socialist Workers Party in London. Since the 1990s, the term " International Socialist Tendency " was commonly used for this grouping.

In the 1980s, the IS grew. New IS- groups were established in France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and the Greek Revolutionary Socialist Organisation strengthened its links with the IS. Even Turkish members (in exile in West Germany and the UK) were recruited. The growth of the IS sat down in the 1990s continued ( Austria, Cyprus, Spain, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Korea). Even in former socialist states IS- groups were established (Poland, Czech Republic). A Russian group existed only in the short term.

At the same time it also came in the 1990s, but serious problems. Along with the geographical expansion, there were also losses and fragmentations. There were a number of spin-offs, which were attributed independently that the internal organization of the IS had become bureaucratic and undemocratic. Divisions and problems there were, inter alia, in Germany, South Africa, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France and Belgium.

In recent years, this ambivalent trend continued. On the one hand a number of new groups were formed ( eg Finland, Uruguay and Ghana). At the same time the largest organizations split outside the UK and the U.S. International Socialist Organization was expelled because of different opinions about the importance of the anti-globalization movement after the demonstrations in Seattle from the IS. Something similar happened in Greece.

IS Member Groups

The following is a list of actual affiliates who may not be complete or accurate, however. So in the websites of the IS on the Suara Socialis in Indonesia is pointed as a member organization, but only made a website.

  • Devrimci Sosyalist ISCI Partisi, Turkey
  • Comunismo dal basso, Italy
  • En Lucha, Spain
  • Ergatiki Democracy, Cyprus
  • Internasjonale Sosialister, Norway
  • International Socialister, Denmark
  • International Socialists, The Netherlands
  • International Socialist Organization, Australia
  • International Socialist Organization, Ghana
  • International Socialist Organization, Puerto Rico
  • International Socialist Organization, Zimbabwe
  • International Socialists, Canada
  • Internation Ella Socialister, Sweden
  • Izquierda Revolucionaria, Uruguay
  • Keep Left, South Africa
  • Klum Prachatipatai Rangarn, Thailand
  • Linksruck, Germany ( resolved)
  • Turn to the left, Austria
  • Pracownicza Demokracja, Poland
  • Socialisme par en bas, France
  • Socialismo Internacional, Brazil
  • Socialistická Solidarita, Czech Republic
  • Sosialistiko Ergatiko comma, Greece
  • Sosialistiliitto, Finland
  • Socialist Workers Organization, New Zealand
  • Socialist Workers Party, United Kingdom Socialist Worker Platform ( in the Scottish Socialist Party )
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