Revolutionary Left (Spain)
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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...
political formation in Spain
Spain
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. It was a splinter-group of the Spanish CWI
CWI
CWI is an abbreviation for the following organizations/institutions:*Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands*College of Western Idaho, a new Community College in Nampa, Idaho*Committee for a Workers' International...
section. The founders of IR had been expelled from CWI. IR was based in Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
. IR published A Luchar por el socialismo.
The group was registered as a political party
Political party
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in 2000.
IR attempted a unification process with Workers Revolutionary Party (PRT), the Spanish LIT-CI section. However later the group that had founded IR regrouped as an independent collective, managing the website marxismo.org.