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
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 th ...
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
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."

The movement participated in the
2021 protests
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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 Communist Internationalists and became the Russian section of the IMT.
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2019 establishments in Russia
Defunct communist parties in Russia
Far-left political parties
Far-left politics in Russia
Revolutionary Communist International
Political organizations based in Russia
Political parties established in 2019
Political parties disestablished in 2023
Trotskyist organizations in Russia
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