Editing Fourth International (section)

== Since reunification ==
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Since the 1963 reunification, a number of approaches have developed within international Trotskyism towards the Fourth International.
* The reunified [[Fourth International (post-reunification)|Fourth International]] is the only current with direct organisational continuity to the original Fourth International at an international level. The International Committee and International Secretariat reunified at the 1963 congress, but without the [[Socialist Labour League]] and [[Internationalist Communist Organisation]].<ref name="Farrell"/> It is sometimes known as the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) after the name of its leading committee, although that committee was replaced in 2003. It is also the only current to have continuously presented itself as "the" Fourth International. It is the largest current and leaders of some other Trotskyist Internationals occasionally refer to it as "the Fourth International": ICFI secretary Gerry Healy, when proposing reunification discussions in the 1970s, described it as "the Fourth International";<ref>{{cite book|author-first=Gerry |author-last=Healy |author-link=Gerry Healy |chapter=Letter to the Fourth International |title=Marxism vs. ultraleftism: the record of Healy's break with Trotskyism |editor-first=Joseph |editor-last=Hansen |editor-link=Joseph Hansen (socialist) |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/education/1974-01-jan-Marxism-vs-Ultra-Leftism-Healy-EfS.pdf |publisher=Education for Socialists |date=January 1974}}</ref> the [[International Socialist Tendency]] also usually refers to it in this way.<ref>{{cite magazine|author-first=Alex |author-last=Callinicos |author-link=Alex Callinicos |url=http://www.istendency.net/pdf/Regroupment.pdf |title=Regroupment, Realignment, and the Revolutionary Left |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515220747/http://www.istendency.net/pdf/Regroupment.pdf |archive-date=15 May 2006 |magazine=IST Discussion Bulletin |number=1 |date=July 2002}}</ref>
* The [[International Committee of the Fourth International]] member groups customarily describe themselves as sections of the Fourth International, and the organisation as a whole describes itself as the "leadership of the Fourth International".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/icfi/icfi.shtml |title=About the International Committee of the Fourth International |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515211600/http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/icfi/icfi.shtml |archive-date=15 May 2006 |website=[[World Socialist Web Site]]}}</ref> However, the ICFI presents itself as the ''political continuity'' of the Fourth International and Trotskyism, not as the FI itself. It clearly dates its creation as 1953, rather than from 1938.<ref>{{cite web|author-first=Peter |author-last=Schwarz |url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/pets-d06.shtml |title=Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International |website=[[World Socialist Web Site]]|date=6 December 2003 }}</ref>
* Some tendencies argue that the Fourth International became dislocated politically during the years between Trotsky's murder and the establishment of the ICFI in 1953; they consequently work to "reconstruct", "reorganise" or "rebuild" it. This view originated with [[Lutte Ouvriere]] and the [[international Spartacist tendency]] and is shared by others who diverged from the ICFI. For example, the [[Committee for a Workers' International (1974)|Committee for a Workers' International]], whose founders dropped out of the reunified FI after 1965, call for a new "revolutionary Fourth International".<ref>{{cite web|author-first=Peter |author-last=Taaffe |author-link=Peter Taaffe |url=http://www.socialistworld.net/publications/history2/p13.html |title=A Socialist World is Possible: The history of the CWI |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050722085553/http://www.socialistworld.net/publications/history2/p13.html |archive-date=22 July 2005 |website=socialistworld.net|publisher=[[Committee for a Workers' International (1974)|Committee for a Workers' International]] }}</ref> Indeed, the Fourth International (ICR) reproclaimed the Fourth International at a congress attended by ICR sections in June 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socialistorganizer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=53 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225451/http://www.socialistorganizer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=53 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |title=Manifesto of the 4th World Congress |website=Socialist Organizer}}</ref>
* Other Trotskyist groups argue that the Fourth International is dead. They call for the establishment of a new "workers' international" or a [[Fifth International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fifthinternational.org/LFIfiles/LFIcallfor5th.html |title=Forward to the Fifth International! |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519122015/http://www.fifthinternational.org/LFIfiles/LFIcallfor5th.html |archive-date=19 May 2006 |website=[[League for the Fifth International]]}}</ref>