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The Committee for a Marxist International (also known as the International Marxist Tendency) is a Trotskyist tendency based on the ideas of Ted Grant and Alan Woods.
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 thirty years of patient work and maintained that Marxists should remain within the party. 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 Militant 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 CMI in other countries than Britain.
Just as the Grant and Woods led Socialist Appeal tendency pursues a policy of entrism in the British Labour Party, CMI groups outside Britain pursue entrism in equivalents of the Labour Party (where they exist), some Communist Parties such as those in France and Italy and, in some countries, progressive bourgeois parties such as the Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto. This work, however, is always combined with independent work outside these parties.
The CMI has at least one MP in Pakistan (who ran as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party) and has spread to parts of Latin America, where it now has groups in Venezuela, Peru, Argentina and Mexico. 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 and other countries. One of its most successful sections is in Spain, where CMI youth organized the national student organisation Sindicato de Estudiantes.
See also
External links
- In Defence of Marxism Official CMI website.
Komitee für eine Marxistische Internationale | Committee for a Marxist International
"Committee for a Marxist International"