The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) was a

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international organisation. Its name in

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was ''Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional''. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in

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called by the Movement for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. It had members in South America, Western Europe and the Middle East. The committee had nine members from Argentina, Chile, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, Turkey, Finland and Venezuela. They included

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, Savas Matsas, Sungur Savran and

Marco Ferrando Marco Ferrando (born 18 July 1954, in Genoa) 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 ( Movement for the Communist Workers ...

. The Argentinian PO was the largest section of the CRFI and as such drew its international co-thinkers into the new organisation from other countries in Latin America. However the Workers Revolutionary Party of

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and the

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had different roots from the PO and its allies. The fusion of these groups provided the CRFI with bases in both Greece and Italy. It held a conference of worker-militants in the European and Mediterranean region in Athens in June 2013. It held a further meeting of its International Committee in December 2013. It held a second conference of worker-militants in the European and Mediterranean region in Athens in March 2014. It had next conference "Creating new International" on 2-3 April 2018 in

, hosted by PO of Argentina. The Leader of Russian

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Darya Mitina was invited, therefore meeting attracted criticism from

International Committee of the Fourth International The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is the name of two Trotskyist internationals; one with sections named Socialist Equality Party which publishes the World Socialist Web Site, and another linked to the Workers Rev ...

(SEP) based on the allegations of cooperation with "Stalinist forces". Member sections of the CRFI were as follows: * Flag of Argentina

Workers' Party (''Partido Obrero,'' PO) in

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Revolutionary Workers Party (''Partido Obrero Revolucionario,'' POR) in

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. *

Workers Revolutionary Party (''Ergatiko Epanastatiko Komma,'' EEK) in

. *

Workers Communist Party (''Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori,'' PCL) in

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(''Grupo de Acción Revolucionaria,'' GAR) in

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Workers' Party (''Partido de los Trabajadores,'' PT) in

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. *

Revolutionary Workers' Party (''Devrimci İşçi Partisi,'' DİP) in

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Marxist Workers' League (''Marxilainen Työväenliitto,'' MTL) in

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Workers' Option (''Opción Obrera,'' OO) in

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Revolutionary Worker Renaissance (''Renaissance Ouvrière Révolutionnaire, ''ROR) in

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The Proletarian Society of China periodical ''The Trotskyist'', China/Hong Kong, was close to the CRFI.

References

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External links

CRFI statement on Syriaresolution
of December 2012 International Secretariat meeting

See also

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