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Fourth International (1964-1979)

London. Fourth International, was the official journal of the International Committee of the Fourth International that formed after the wing of the ICFI, lead by the US SWP, reunified with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International in 1963 to form the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI). The remaining ICFI (composed mainly of the Revolutionary Workers Party of Bolivia, Socialist Labor League [SLL] of the UK and the Internationalist Communist Organization of France) attempted to maintain those pre-unification perspectives of the original ICFI.Fourth International published for the ICFI by the SLL (later called the Workers Revolutionary Party) of the UK, grew out of the SLL’s own theoretical magazine, Labour Review which was incorporated into Fourth International in its inaugural issue in 1964. The editors of Fourth International were Tom Kemp and Cliff Slaughter.

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Fourth International (1940-1945)

Fourth International [New York] represented the continuation of Trotskyist politics in the United States after the tendency in the Socialist Worker Party that formed around Max Schactman split and took the SWP theoretical journal with them, New International. The index is in two parts: 1940-1945 and 1946-1956. In 1956 the magazine was renamed International Socialist Review. The index for ISR goes up to March 1970 at the moment.

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