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Tendency (party Politics)
In socialist party politics, a tendency is a political faction, usually within a Marxist party or a Marxist faction of a wider party. Examples include: * Debs Tendency, a group formed around Eugene Debs in the Socialist Party USA * International Marxist Tendency, the former name of the Revolutionary Communist International * International Socialist Tendency, a coalition of Trotskyist organizations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff * Marxist Tendency, a Trotskyist organization in post-Soviet Russia * Militant tendency The Militant tendency, or Militant, was a Trotskyist group in the British Labour Party, organised around the ''Militant'' newspaper, which launched in 1964. In 1975, there was widespread press coverage of a Labour Party report on the infiltrat ..., a Trotskyist group in the UK Labour Party in the 1980s * Militant Tendency (Ireland), a Trotskyist group that became the Irish Socialist Party * Pathfinder tendency, a group of organizations that cooperate with the ...
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Party Politics
''Party Politics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of political science. The journal's editor is Paul Webb of the University of Sussex, UK. It has been in publication since 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. Scope ''Party Politics'' provides a written forum for the analysis of political parties, including their historical development, structure, policy programmes, ideology, electoral and campaign strategies as well as their role within the various national and international political systems of which they are a part. It is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of political science. Abstracting and indexing ''Part Politics'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2017 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type o ...
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Political Faction
A political faction is a group of people with a common political purpose, especially a subgroup of a political party that has interests or opinions different from the rest of the political party. Intragroup conflict between factions can lead to schism of the political party into two political parties. The Ley de Lemas electoral system allows the voters to indicate on the ballot their preference for political factions within a political party. Political factions can represent voting blocs. Political factions require a weaker party discipline. Research indicates that factions can play an important role in moving their host party along the ideological spectrum. George Washington's Farewell Address The first president of the United States, George Washington, warned of political factions in his famous farewell address from 1796. He warned of political parties generally, as according to Washington, political party loyalty when prioritized over duty to the nation and commitment to ...
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Marxist
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, and social transformation. Marxism originates from the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism has developed over time into various branches and schools of thought, and as a result, there is no single, definitive " Marxist theory". Marxism has had a profound effect in shaping the modern world, with various left-wing and far-left political movements taking inspiration from it in varying local contexts. In addition to the various schools of thought, which emphasize or modify elements of classical Marxism, several Marxian concepts have been incorporated into an array of social theories. This has led to widely varying conclusions. Alongside Marx's critique of political economy, the defining ...
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Debs Tendency
The Socialist Party of the United States of America (also Socialist Party USA or SPUSA) is a socialist political party in the United States. SPUSA formed in 1973, one year after the Socialist Party of America splintered into three: Social Democrats, USA (legal successor); the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (split); and SPUSA. SPUSA describes itself as a multi-tendency socialist party which hopes to win socialism through a "democratic revolution from below". In contrast to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), SPUSA advocates for "uncompromising independence" from the Democratic Party. SPUSA describes socialism as "radical democracy", in opposition to "capitalist and authoritarian statist systems". Notable members include David McReynolds, Frank Zeidler, and Dan La Botz. Former members include Ben Burgis. Organization SPUSA is headquartered at the A. J. Muste Institute. , the Socialist Party had 11 local and state parties. Active SPUSA state parties incl ...
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International Marxist Tendency
The Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) is a Trotskyist political international. It was founded as the Committee for a Marxist International (CMI) by British-based South African political theorist Ted Grant and his supporters after they broke with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992, and was subsequently renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) in 2004 before adopting its current name in June 2024. The organization's website, Marxist.com or In Defence of Marxism, is edited by Alan Woods. The site is multilingual, and publishes international current affairs articles written from a Marxist perspective, as well as many historical and theoretical articles. The international maintains a list of claimed national sections on its website. History Militant tendency was an entryist group within the British Labour Party based around the ''Militant'' newspaper that was founded in 1964. In 1974, Militant and its allies in Sweden, Ireland, and other count ...
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International Socialist Tendency
The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an Political international, international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (UK), Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Great Britain, Britain (not to be confused with the unrelated Socialist Workers Party (US), Socialist Workers Party in the United States). IST supporters are sometimes called "Cliffites". It has sections across 27 countries; however, its strongest presence is in Europe, especially in Britain. The politics of the IST are similar to the politics of many List of Trotskyist internationals, Trotskyist Internationals. Where it differs with many is on the question of the Soviet Union, the IST adopting the position that it was a "state capitalism, state capitalist" economy, rather than a "degenerated workers' state" along with their theories of the "permanent arms economy" and "Permanent revolution#Deflected Permanent Revolutio ...
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Marxist Tendency
The Marxist Tendency (; MT) was a Trotskyist organization in Russia, created in May 2019 as a result of the merger of the Russian section of the International Marxist Tendency with a faction of the Revolutionary Workers' Party. According to its own statements, the MT is a communist organization that is "working to create national sections of the IMT in the territory of the former USSR." The movement participated in the 2021 protests 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ... and the 2022 anti-war protests, and also condemned the intervention of the CSTO forces in protest-ridden Kazakhstan. In May 2023, the unification congress of the Marxist Tendency and the communist organisation the New Reds (; NK) was held. The new association was called the Organisation of Communi ...
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Militant Tendency
The Militant tendency, or Militant, was a Trotskyist group in the British Labour Party, organised around the ''Militant'' newspaper, which launched in 1964. In 1975, there was widespread press coverage of a Labour Party report on the infiltration tactics of Militant. Between 1975 and 1980, attempts by Reg Underhill and others in the leadership of the Labour Party to expel Militant were rejected by its National Executive Committee, which appointed a Militant member to the position of National Youth Organiser in 1976 after Militant had won control of the party's youth section, the Labour Party Young Socialists. After the Liverpool Labour Party adopted Militant's strategy to set an illegal deficit budget in 1982, a Labour Party commission found Militant in contravention of clause II, section 3 of the party's constitution which made political groups with their own "Programme, Principles and Policy for Separate and Distinctive Propaganda" ineligible for affiliation. Militant was p ...
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Militant Tendency (Ireland)
The Socialist Party () is a political party in Ireland, active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Internationally, it was affiliated to the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative (previously the Committee for a Workers International) until 2024. The party has been involved in various populist campaigns including the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign and the Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes. Members of the party were jailed for their part in the former, while members have been arrested for their role in the latter. It had a seat in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. In 2015, the party received state funding of €132,000. From 2014, the party's election candidates in the Republic did not stand for election directly on the Socialist Party platform, but have instead run as candidates of the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), now Solidarity, which was a registered party in its own right between 2014 and 2015 and which continues to contest elections as pa ...
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Pathfinder Tendency
The Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that cooperate politically and organizationally with the Socialist Workers Party (United States), Socialist Workers Party of the United States and support its solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the Communist Party of Cuba. The group operates Pathfinder Bookstores, which sell the products of the SWP's publishing arm, Pathfinder Press. It is also known as the International Communist League, although this term is not widely used, and can cause confusion with other organizations of the same name. The Communist Leagues, even those in non-English-speaking countries, sell the SWP publication ''The Militant''. History In the 1980s, the Socialist Workers Party and its international supporters within the Fourth International (Post-Reunification), Fourth International (FI) broke from many of Trotskyism's traditional positions, including the theory of Permanent revolution, Permanent Re ...
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