Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International
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The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) is a Trotskyist
international organisation. Its name in Spanish
is Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in Buenos Aires
called by the Movement for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. It has members in South America, Western Europe and the Middle East. The committee has nine members, two each from Italy and Brazil, and one each from Uruguay, Argentina, the US, Greece, and Israel/Palestine. They include Jorge Altamira
and Marco Ferrando
.
The Argentianian PO is the largest section of the CRFI and as such drew its international co-thinkers into the new tendency from other countries in Latin America. However the Workers Revolutionary Party
of Greece
and the International Trotskyist Opposition had different roots from the PO and its allies. The fusion of these groups provides the CRFI with small but real bases in both Greece and Italy.
Member sections of the CRFI are as follows:
The Proletarian Society of China
periodical The Trotskyist, China/Hongkong, is close to the CRFI.
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
international organisation. Its name in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
is Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
called by the Movement for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. It has members in South America, Western Europe and the Middle East. The committee has nine members, two each from Italy and Brazil, and one each from Uruguay, Argentina, the US, Greece, and Israel/Palestine. They include Jorge Altamira
Jorge Altamira
Jorge Altamira , is an Argentine activist and politician leading the Workers' Party in Argentina.He was born José Saúl Wermus in Buenos Aires, in 1942. Son of a printing worker active in the Graphist Union, Altamira began participating in the labor movement at an early age, and took part in a...
and Marco Ferrando
Marco Ferrando
Marco Ferrando is an Italian Trotskyist activist and politician, the leading member of the AMR Progetto Comunista current in the Movimento per un Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori , and a member of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International.In February 2006, in the...
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The Argentianian PO is the largest section of the CRFI and as such drew its international co-thinkers into the new tendency from other countries in Latin America. However the Workers Revolutionary Party
Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece)
The Workers Revolutionary Party is a Trotskyist communist political party in Greece, taking part in the elections independently , since the departure from Radical Left Front coalition in spring of 2009 .The party's newspaper is Νέα Προοπτική The Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK: Ergatiko...
of Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
and the International Trotskyist Opposition had different roots from the PO and its allies. The fusion of these groups provides the CRFI with small but real bases in both Greece and Italy.
Member sections of the CRFI are as follows:
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Workers' PartyWorkers' Party (Argentina)The Workers' Party is an Argentine Trotskyist political party. It is the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International....
(Partido Obrero, PO) in ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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Workers' Cause Party (Partido da Causa Operária, PCO) in BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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Revolutionary Workers Party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR) in ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
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Workers Revolutionary PartyWorkers Revolutionary Party (Greece)The Workers Revolutionary Party is a Trotskyist communist political party in Greece, taking part in the elections independently , since the departure from Radical Left Front coalition in spring of 2009 .The party's newspaper is Νέα Προοπτική The Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK: Ergatiko...
(Ergatiko Epanastatiko Komma, EEK) in GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
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Workers' Communist PartyWorkers' Communist Party (Italy)The Italian Communist Workers' Party is a party of the far left. It was created in 2006 by the Trotskyist breakaway wing of the Communist Refoundation Party led by Marco Ferrando ....
(Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori, PCL) in ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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Workers' Party (Partido de los Trabajadores, PT) in UruguayUruguayUruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
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Refoundation and Revolution (R&R) group in SolidaritySolidarity (US)In left-wing politics in the United States, Solidarity is a socialist organization associated with the journal Against the Current. Solidarity is an organizational descendant of International Socialists, a Trotskyist organization based on the proposition that the Soviet Union was not a "degenerate...
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Revolutionary Workers' PartyRevolutionary Workers' Party (Turkey)The Revolutionary Workers' Party is a Trotskyist political party in Turkey. DİP is a section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International....
(Devrimci İşçi Partisi, DİP) in TurkeyTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
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Marxist Workers' League (Marxilainen Työväenliitto, MTL) in FinlandFinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
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Workers' Option (Opción Obrera, OO) in VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
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Revolutionary Action's Group (Grupo de Acción Revolucionaria, GAR) in MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
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The Proletarian Society of China
Proletarian Society of China
The Proletarian Society of China was a short-lived Trotskyist organisation founded in Hong Kong in 2002 out of a fuse of former members of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League, International Marxist Tendency and the Hong Kong Marxist Student Society who had established themselves under the name...
periodical The Trotskyist, China/Hongkong, is close to the CRFI.