The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is a Trotskyist political international founded by British-based South African political theorist Ted Grant and his supporters after they broke with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992. The organization's website, Marxist.com or In Defence of Marxism, is edited by Alan Woods. The site is multilingual, and publishes international current affairs articles written from a Marxist perspective, as well as many historical and theoretical articles. The IMT has announced it will relaunch itself as the Revolutionary Communist International at its World School of Communism in June 2024.^[1]

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International Marxist Tendency
Abbreviation	IMT
Leader	Alan Woods
Founder	Ted Grant
Founded	1992 (as Committee for a Marxist International)
Split from	Committee for a Workers' International
Ideology	Marxism Leninism Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
Colors	Red
Party flag
Website
www.marxist.com

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Militant (also known as the Militant tendency) was an entryist group within the British Labour Party based around the Militant newspaper that was founded in 1964. In 1974, Militant and its allies in Sweden, Ireland, and other countries formed the Committee for a Workers' International. The organisation gained more members during the 1970s and early 1980s and dominated the Labour Party in Liverpool. It became the largest Trotskyist group in Europe. In 1983, the five members of the Militant newspaper's editorial board were expelled for contravening the Labour Party constitution and expulsions of Militant members continued throughout the rest of the decade.^[2][3][4]

Ted Grant was a longtime leader of Militant until it split in early 1992 over a number of issues and he was expelled. But he and his supporters were expelled from the tendency and formed Socialist Appeal in Britain.^[5]

At its World Congress in 2004, the organisation was renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT).^[6]

In late 2009 a dispute developed between the IMT leadership and the leaderships of its sections in Spain (El Militante), Venezuela (Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria) and Mexico. In January 2010, these organisations, together with the group in Colombia and part of the section in Mexico, broke with the IMT and established a new international body, the Izquierda Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Left).^[7][8] Minorities in Venezuela and Spain chose to remain with the IMT and set up new sections.^[9] The new IMT Venezuelan section launched their newspaper, Lucha de Clases, in April 2010.^[10]

In 2016, the Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria issued a joint declaration with the Committee for a Workers' International announcing that the organizations are conducting joint work.^[11] In the same year, another smaller split occurred. The majority of the Swedish section, factions in Poland and Britain and individuals from several other sections left the IMT to form a new group called Towards a New International Tendency.^[12] The Iranian section of the IMT also split away over the international's position on Venezuela's friendly relations with the Iranian government and in 2011 launched Marxist Revival^[13] with co-thinkers in Britain. The Pakistani section split, with the majority leaving, while the minority reorganized as "Lal Salaam" (Red Salute)^{[citation needed]}