The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist parties. Members include the Socialist Party of England and Wales, the Socialist Party (Ireland), the Socialist Party (Australia) the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa and Nigeria and groups using the name Socialist Alternative in the United States, Canada, along with parties in Sweden, Germany - representatives in 40 countries worldwide mak...
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The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist parties. Members include the Socialist Party of England and Wales, the Socialist Party (Ireland), the Socialist Party (Australia) the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa and Nigeria and groups using the name Socialist Alternative in the United States, Canada, along with parties in Sweden, Germany - representatives in 40 countries worldwide making the CWI the second largest Trotskyist international after the Fourth International.
The CWI was founded in 1974 at a conference in London on 20/21 April by supporters of what was then called the Militant tendency in Britain, Sweden, Ireland and several other countries. At that time CWI sections generally pursued a policy of entrism into social democratic or labour parties, although it was not the only strategy pursued.
This strategy ended in the early 1990s. The CWI developed an analysis that these parties had changed in nature and had...
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