The New International is a magazine of Marxist theory published first by the Socialist Workers Party of the United States (SWP) from 1934 to 1940, then by the Workers Party from 1940 to 1958, and then revived by the SWP since 1983.
14-547: Since the magazine's resumption in 1983, The New International has included articles written by leaders of the ' Pathfinder tendency ' which left the Fourth International in the 1980s. Content focuses on speeches and resolutions of the SWP's biannual conference, and archival documents by Bolshevik and Castroist communists . It is now published roughly once every two years. The magazine's last publication (online)
28-673: Is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that cooperate politically and organizationally with the 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
42-743: The Federation in 1999. In recent years, the Pathfinder tendency has attempted to consolidate its sections by moving members from smaller sections to central locations, including across national boundaries. In 2022, Communist League members in Australia folded their branches and moved to Sydney to consolidate there; later that year members of the Communist League in New Zealand also relocated to Sydney to consolidate CL members from
56-674: The Groupe Marxiste Revolutionnaire, with the League for Socialist Action . The organization marked the reunification of the Canadian section of the Fourth International and had a membership of several hundred people. The group published a monthly newspaper in English, Socialist Voice , as well as a French-language publication, La Lutte Ouvrière . The RWL was heavily influenced by the Socialist Workers Party of
70-597: 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 . In the 1980s, the Socialist Workers Party and its international supporters within the Fourth International (FI) broke from many of Trotskyism 's traditional positions, including
84-562: The Pacific region there. Similarly, the Communist League of Sweden dissolved in 2011 to relocate to London, as did the Communist League of Iceland in 2007. Revolutionary Workers League (Canada) The Revolutionary Workers League (French: Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire ) was a Canadian Trostkyist party formed on 8 August 1977 by the fusion of the Revolutionary Marxist Group and its Quebec counterpart,
98-809: The SWP and its supporters formally left the FI. Supporters of the SWP internationally renamed their organisations the Communist League in each country. Since the creation of the Pathfinder tendency, new Communist Leagues have formed to organise previously existing groups of supporters in Iceland and France. The Youth sections of the Pathfinder Tendency are increasingly active in the World Federation of Democratic Youth . The Young Socialists of USA , Britain and New Zealand became members of
112-994: The September–October 1952 issue, the major advertiser was the Labor Action Book Service (named after the ISL's newspaper). The New International was discontinued around the time that the Shachtmanites entered the Socialist Party of America in 1958. In 1983, the SWP refounded the magazine in co-operation with the Revolutionary Workers League in Canada . The magazine's current editors are Mary-Alice Waters , Steve Clark and Jack Barnes . Assisting them are seven international consultants. The original editors in 1934 were
126-532: The United States . When the SWP moved away from Trotskyism in the early 1980s, a faction fight broke out in the RWL between supporters of the SWP and supporters of a Trotskyist position over the issue of Leon Trotsky 's theory of permanent revolution and the nature of the Cuban Revolution . While the Trotskyists argued that Cuba was a deformed workers' state , the supporters of the SWP argued that Cuban Revolution
140-734: The magazine in 1934. When Shachtman and his associates split from the SWP to form the Workers Party in 1940, they brought the journal to the new organization: an action regarded by the SWP as theft. The SWP replaced New International with Fourth International , later called International Socialist Review . The New International Publishing Company published the magazine from 1934 to 1958 as "a monthly organ of revolutionary Marxism." From 1934 to 1949, it published monthly. Publication suspended from July 1936 to December 1937 and also in Jan. 1940. In this period, publishers changed several times: In
154-560: The magazines founders, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman . In its initial period (1934–1958), the magazine's editors (or editorial board in the absence of listed editors) were: The September–October 1952 issue lists Shachtman as editor and Julius Falk as managing editor. Contributors include: Gordon Haskell , G. Zinoviev, and Albert Gates (Albert Glotzer). Forthcoming issues would have contributions from Ben Hall, Shachtman, and Zinoviev. Pathfinder tendency The Pathfinder tendency
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#1732772924016168-538: The theory of Permanent Revolution , and embraced positions that marked a political convergence with the Cuban Communist Party and the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional . Upon adopting these new positions, the SWP expelled FI supporters from the party, and SWP supporters abroad split from or attempted to take over sections of the FI in various countries. By the late 1980s, this process
182-616: Was a 2008 issue with a covers story entitled "Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X " by Jack Barnes . Other articles were: "The Clintons' Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis ", "The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class", and "Setting the Record Straight on Fascism and World War II: Building a World Federation of Democratic Youth that Fights Imperialism and War". Martin Abern and Max Shachtman founded
196-667: Was completed and national sections of the FI had either been taken over with supporters of the international's mainstream being expelled—this happened with the Revolutionary Workers League in Canada, the Socialist Action League in New Zealand and the SWP in the US—;or supporters of the US SWP had split from FI sections and founded their own organisations, as occurred in Australia, Sweden and Britain. In 1990,
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