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12 unusual facts about Fourth International


Arkadi Maslow

From 1934 to 1936, Maslow worked closely with Trotsky and served as a part of the movement towards a Fourth International.

Inprecor

After World War II, Ernest Mandel successfully proposed that the Fourth International assumed responsibility for the production of Inprecor.

Jimmy Deane

Along with Jock Haston and Ted Grant, he played a role during the second world war in the Revolutionary Communist Party, the British section of the Fourth International.

In 1946 Deane was the British delegate to the International Conference of the Fourth International alongside Jock Haston.

Mark Zborowski

After Sedov's death, Trotsky initiated an investigation of Etienne and entrusted the matter to Rudolf Klement, his one-time aide and organizer of Trotsky's Fourth International.

Otto Schüssler

In Paris in 1938, Schüssler participated at the founding of the Fourth International.

After the Stalinists killed Trotsky in a second attempt on August 20, Schüssler remained in Mexico, took a job, and continued to be active in the Mexican section of the Fourth International under his Mexican pseudonym, "Julián Suárez."

Sergey Spigelglas

It has also been suggested that he was the mastermind behind the murder-decapitation of the Trotskyist leader of the Fourth International, Rudolf Klement, in France in July 1938, and the murder of the defector Georges Agabekov in France in 1937.

Socialist Outlook

The second Socialist Outlook was the publication of the International Socialist Group, the Trotskyist organisation which was the British section of the Fourth International between 1987 and 2009.

Socialist Outlook was the name of two publications edited by supporters of the Fourth International in Britain.

Tony Cliff

This debate was linked to other discussions on the nationalised industries in Britain and the increasingly critical stance of Haston and the RCP as to the leadership of the Fourth International with regard to Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia in particular.

The Fourth International held until 1951 that the 'glacis' states had remained capitalist even while the FI maintained the position that Russia was a degenerated workers' state.