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The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is an international Trotskyist tendency based on the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. The late Ted Grant was its chief theoretician and the person who built the organization since its beginning. Currently, Alan Woods and Lal Khan are its main leaders and theoreticians. It was founded as the Committee for a Marxist International, but has referred to itself as the IMT since 2006.[1]

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[edit] Origin

Grant was a long time leader of the Militant tendency in the British Labour Party until it split in early 1992 over whether to try to continue working in the Labour Party. The majority formed Militant Labour outside the Labour Party, which subsequentially became the Socialist Party. Grant argued that leaving Labour would amount to throwing away many decades of patient work and maintained that Marxists should remain within the party. It can be noted that since the Majority left the Labour Party they have had minimal success and have to the contrary lost much if not all of its influence and membership. However, he and his supporters were expelled from the tendency and together with Alan Woods he formed Socialist Appeal in Britain.

In 1974, Militant and its co-thinkers from Sweden, Ireland and elsewhere around the world formed the Committee for a Workers International. The faction fight within the Militant tendency that led to the expulsion of Grant and Woods also played itself out within the CWI with supporters of the Grant minority leaving to form the Committee for a Marxist International in other countries than Britain, which later became known as the "International Marxist Tendency". Since its World Congress 2006, the organisation was renamed the "International Marxist Tendency". The Marxist Tendency has since grown and claims sections world wide with its biggest sections in Pakistan, Spain, United Kingdom.

[edit] Activity

Just as the Socialist Appeal tendency pursues a policy of working in the British Labour Party which is the traditional mass organization in Britain, IMT groups outside Britain pursue this method in equivalents of the Labour Party (where they exist), some Communist Parties such as those in France and Italy and, in some countries, mass party such as the Pakistan Peoples Party. This work, however, is always combined with independent work outside these parties and with a strong observance of not liquidating the organization inside these parties.

The IMT had one MPs in Pakistan (who ran as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party with a clear socialist program) and has spread to parts of Latin America, where it now has groups in Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil and El Salvador. At the end of 2002 it promoted the launching of the solidarity campaign at Hands Off Venezuela, which is now active in 30 countries and has had resolutions passed within the trade union movements in Britain, Canada, Italy and other countries. The IMT activists also play an important role in FRETECO (Front of Factories Under Workers' Control) movement in Brazil[2], Venezuela[3] and have been very active in Venezuela, where they support the popular revolution and spread the ideas of Marx and Trotsky[4]. Its largest European section is in Spain[5], where IMT youth organised the national student organisation Sindicato de Estudiantes[6], which the autumn of 2008 led a student strike of hundreds of thousands.[7]

Every year all the sections of IMT take part in a large event that is either a World Congress or a World School of Marxism. The difference is that the congresses are held mainly to discuss the progress of IMT in the world, present reports and plan the future activities, while the World School is aimed mainly to deepen the knowledge of Marxist theory, history of workers' movement and the actual situation of the struggle for world socialism.

[edit] Pakistan

The Pakistani section is the largest section of the International Marxist Tendency. The section is called "The Struggle" and it is active in the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), while at the same time doing independent work. It has been active in the worker's movement through the Pakistan Trade Union Defense Campaign (PTUDC)[8], while also being involved in the student movement[9]. In April 1st, 2008 they had their 27th congress which was the largest ever, with 2000 delegates from all over Pakistan taking part.

"The Struggle" criticizes what it sees as the bureaucracy of the PPP and its ties to the bourgeoisie and the feudalists , while it is fighting for the socialist transformation of Pakistan. It demands the nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy under workers control, the eradication of unemployment and free accessible education, among other demands. [10]


[edit] Venezuela

The International Marxist Tendency's position in Venezuela is that of support for the Bolivarian Revolution,while pointing out that the only way forward for the revolution is the nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy under workers' control. Also they think that a big section of the bureaucracy of the PSUV is the "Fifth Column" of the Bolivarian Revolution.[11] Their section in Venezuela (CMR) is active in factory occupations through FRETECO. It has led the struggles in Inveval[12] and Mitshubishi[13], while it has a presence in the student [14]and trade union movement[15]. The CMR describes itself as "The Marxist Voice of the PSUV".

[edit] The Americas

In the first days of March 2009 the International Marxist Tendency organized a Marxist School in Mexico, where revolutionaries from all over North, South and Central America gathered in order to discuss the work done in each country, Marxist ideas and perspectives for the movement. Notably present at one of the Meetings was Esteban Volkov, Grandson of Trotsky who acknowledged Alan Woods as one of Trotsky's best followers. Also in this event, a new theoretical magazine was launched, called "America Socialista", which is now published in Spanish, but will eventually come out in Portuguese, English and French. [16]

[edit] Affiliates

Sources: [17], [18]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.marxist.com/history-international-marxist-tendency.htm
  2. ^ http://www.marxismo.org.br/
  3. ^ http://www.controlobrero.org/
  4. ^ http://www.venezuela.elmilitante.org/
  5. ^ http://www.elmilitante.org/
  6. ^ http://www.sindicatodeestudiantes.org/
  7. ^ Today, November 13th, hundreds of thousands of students in secondary and university education supported the general strike called by the Spanish Students’ Union (Sindicato Estudiantes).http://www.marxist.com/nuevo-exito-en-la-convocatoria-de-huelga-general-english.htm
  8. ^ http://www.marxist.com/ptudc-karachi-executive-announced.htm
  9. ^ http://www.marxist.com/pakistan-historic-convention-rally-jknsf.htm
  10. ^ http://www.marxist.com/pakistan-27th-congress-of-the-struggle.htm
  11. ^ http://www.marxist.com/sectarianism-venezuelan-revolution230704.htm
  12. ^ http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-from-immediate-demands-workers-control.htm
  13. ^ http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-militant-march-workers-barcelona.htm
  14. ^ http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-psuv-youth-congress.htm
  15. ^ http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-successful-cmr-trade-union-conference.htm
  16. ^ From February 27 to March 2, more than 100 revolutionaries from the American continent gathered in Mexico City to take part in the first Pan-American Marxist School of the International Marxist Tendency...to launch the first of issue of America Socialista, the magazine of the IMT on the American continent. http://www.marxist.com/pan-american-marxist-school-imt.htm
  17. ^ http://www.broadleft.org/trotskyi.htm
  18. ^ http://www.marxist.com/

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