In socialist

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 b ...

, a tendency is a

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 ...

, usually within a

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 conflic ...

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 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 ...

, the former name of the Revolutionary Communist International *

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 Wor ...

, 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 Socialist Workers Party of the United States

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