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Fourth International
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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- FI
- Founder
- Leon Trotsky
- Founded
- 1938 ; 88 years ago ( 1938 )
- Dissolved
- 1953 ; 73 years ago ( 1953 )
- Split from
- Comintern
- Succeeded by
- Split into: , International Secretariat of the Fourth International (ISFI) International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) 1963 reunification: Fourth International
- Newspaper
- Fourth International
- Ideology
- Communism Trotskyism
- Political position
- Far-left
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Encyclopedic overview
The Fourth International (FI) was a political international established in France in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his supporters, having been expelled from the Soviet Union and the Communist International (also known as Comintern or the Third International).
In The Transitional Program, which was drafted in 1938 during the founding congress of the Fourth International, Trotsky reiterated the need for the legalization of the Soviet parties and worker's control of production.
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