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The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations[1] espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain[2] (not to be confused with the unrelated Socialist Workers Party in the United States). IST supporters are sometimes called "Cliffites". It has sections across 27 countries;[1] however, its strongest presence is in Europe, especially in Britain.
The politics of the IST are similar to the politics of many Trotskyist Internationals. Where it differs with many is on the question of the Soviet Union, the IST adopting the position that it was a "state capitalist" economy, rather than a "degenerated workers' state"[3] along with their theories of the "permanent arms economy"[4] and "deflected permanent revolution".[5] The IST sees the often referred to "socialist" countries, such as the former Eastern Bloc states, China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba as an inverse of classical Marxism, arguing they are "Stalinist" in nature.[6]
Unlike many international tendencies, the IST has no formal organisational structures and has only ever made one publicly known decision, which was to expel the US International Socialist Organization (ISO) from its ranks.[7] However, the antecedents of the IST go back to the 1950s when the founders of the British Socialist Review Group (SRG), supporters of Cliff, were expelled from The Club and thus from the Fourth International.[8]
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- ^ "Tony Cliff". REDS – Die Roten. 11 April 2000. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ "State Capitalism in Russia". Marxists Internet Archive. 1947. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ Kidron, Michael (1967). "A Permanent Arms Economy". International Socialism. Marxism Page. Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ Cliff, Tony (1963). "Deflected Permanent Revolution". Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ "What is the real Marxist tradition?". Marxisme Online. 1983. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ "Report on International Socialist Tendency meeting 5 July 2001". SWP Central Committee. 5 July 2001. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- ^ "A Brief Sketch of the Militant Tendency's History". Committee for a Workers' International. 18 May 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
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