Tag Archives: IMT

Real attempt to learn the lessons

The IMT is beginning to grapple with the problems of sectarianism and bureaucratic centralism. The 'Towards a New International Tendency' statement marks a step forward, notes James Turley The International Marxist Tendency - which in 1992 split from the Militant Tendency and its Committee for a Workers’ International over the issue of whether to ...

Fresh thinking and stale dogma

Another split on the left leads to questions being raised about what passes for ‘democratic centralism’. James Turley looks at the travails of the IMT. The decay of the International Marxist Tendency continues apace. A relatively successful Trotskyist organisation, with roots in the British Militant Tendency and (mostly tiny) sections in a large number of countries, ...

Oil-slick divisions

International Marxist Tendency has suffered a damaging split. Not a new phenomenon, notes James Turley At the 2007 Barcelona world school of the International Marxist Tendency - a not insubstantial, relatively speaking, Trotskyist ‘international’ led primarily by its British section - spirits were as high as the grandiose title of such an event, held in a ...