Part of a series on
Trotskyism
Logo of the Fourth International
Concepts
People
Current Internationals
Historical Internationals
Branches
Related topics

The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) was a Trotskyist international organisation. Its name in Spanish was Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in Buenos Aires called by the Movement for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. It had members in South America, Western Europe and the Middle East. The committee had nine members from Argentina, Chile, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, Turkey, Finland and Venezuela. They included Jorge Altamira, Savas Matsas, Sungur Savran and Marco Ferrando.

The Argentinian PO was the largest section of the CRFI and as such drew its international co-thinkers into the new organisation from other countries in Latin America. However the Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece and the International Trotskyist Opposition had different roots from the PO and its allies. The fusion of these groups provided the CRFI with bases in both Greece and Italy.

It held a conference of worker-militants in the European and Mediterranean region in Athens in June 2013.[1][2][3][4][5] It held a further meeting of its International Committee in December 2013.[6] It held a second conference of worker-militants in the European and Mediterranean region in Athens in March 2014.[7][8][9]

It had next conference "Creating new International" on 2-3 April 2018 in Buenos Aires, hosted by PO of Argentina. The Leader of Russian United Communist Party Darya Mitina was invited, therefore meeting attracted criticism from International Committee of the Fourth International (SEP) based on the allegations of cooperation with "Stalinist forces".[10]

Member sections of the CRFI were as follows:

The Proletarian Society of China periodical The Trotskyist, China/Hong Kong, was close to the CRFI.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://redmed.org/article/international-conference-europe-crisis-internationalist-revolutionary-alternative report on conference
  2. ^ "Europa en crisis, por una alternativa internacionalista revolucionaria : PARTIDO OBRERO". Archived from the original on 2013-09-13. Retrieved 2013-05-24. PO article (Spanish)
  3. ^ http://www.eek.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1673:crfi-redmed-appeal&catid=79:englishtext&Itemid=76[permanent dead link] Appeal for conference
  4. ^ "Conferencia internacional: "Europa en crisis: Por una alternativa revolucionaria internacionalista" : PARTIDO OBRERO". Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2013-06-14. report on conference (Spanish)
  5. ^ http://www.pclavoratori.it/files/index.php?c3:o3382 report on conference (Italian)
  6. ^ http://prensa.po.org.ar/po1299/2014/01/02/la-crci-se-reunio-en-atenas/ Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine report on committee (Spanish)
  7. ^ http://www.eek.gr/index.php/englishtext/79-articles/englishtext/2461-call-for-the-2nd-workers-euro-conference-on-europe-in-crisis appeal for conference (English)
  8. ^ http://www.eek.gr/index.php/englishtext/79-articles/englishtext/2499-declaration-of-the-2nd-workers-euro-mediterranean-conference declaration of the conference (English)
  9. ^ http://prensa.po.org.ar/po1308/2014/04/03/conferencia-europea-un-avance-politico/ Archived 2014-04-05 at the Wayback Machine report on debates at conference (Spanish)
  10. ^ "Russian neo-Stalinist defends Partido Obrero's "refounding" of Fourth International". World Socialist Web Site. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 2021-02-20.

External links

Category