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The '''Revolutionary Communist International''' (RCI), formerly known as the '''International Marxist Tendency'''<ref>{{Web citation|author=International Marxist Tendency|newspaper=In Defence of Marxism|title=It is time to launch a Revolutionary Communist International!|date=2024-02-12|url=https://www.marxist.com/it-is-time-to-launch-a-revolutionary-communist-international.htm}}</ref> (IMT) is a [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] political international founded after [[Ted Grant]] and his followers broke from the [[Committee for a Workers' International]]. The RCI is active in over 40 countries. The RCI shares many similarities with a [[cult]] and engages in cult-building tactics to grow its influence.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Katsfoter|newspaper=Red Clarion|title=The Cult-Building Tendency|date=2024-04-02|url=https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-04-02-the-cult-building-tendency/}}</ref> | The '''Revolutionary Communist International''' (RCI), formerly known as the '''International Marxist Tendency'''<ref>{{Web citation|author=International Marxist Tendency|newspaper=In Defence of Marxism|title=It is time to launch a Revolutionary Communist International!|date=2024-02-12|url=https://www.marxist.com/it-is-time-to-launch-a-revolutionary-communist-international.htm}}</ref> (IMT) is a [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] political international founded after [[Ted Grant]] and his followers broke from the [[Committee for a Workers' International]]. The RCI is active in over 40 countries. The RCI shares many similarities with a [[cult]] and engages in cult-building tactics to grow its influence.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Katsfoter|newspaper=Red Clarion|title=The Cult-Building Tendency|date=2024-04-02|url=https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-04-02-the-cult-building-tendency/}}</ref> | ||
An Infamous example of the RCI's rigid dogmatism and cult-like beliefs, the American branch of the RCI, the RCA, rejects the | An Infamous example of the RCI's rigid dogmatism and cult-like beliefs, the American branch of the RCI, the RCA, rejects the theory of the Big Bang, as they claim it is in contradiction with dialectical materialism.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Donald Parkinson|newspaper=Cosmonaut|title=Letter: The Dead Will Not Be Raised|date=2025-11-17|url=https://cosmonautmag.com/2025/11/letter-the-dead-will-not-be-raised/|quote=Today, sectarian organizations like the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) hold revisionist lines on the Big Bang theory[...]}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Ben Curry|newspaper=Revolutionary Communists of America|title=The Big Bang: Shoehorning the Facts to Fit the Theory|date=2023-04-04|url=https://communistusa.org/the-big-bang-shoehorning-the-facts-to-fit-the-theory/|quote=But we are convinced that the irrational side of the theory—the idealistic notion of an origin to the universe; of a moment of creation of matter, space and time; and all the absurd mathematical patch ups that keep the theory going—all that will be forced to give way under the weight of observational evidence, and scientists will once more recognize that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.}}</ref> | ||
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| Abbreviation | RCI |
| Leader | Alan Woods |
| Founder | Ted Grant |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Political orientation | Trotskyism |
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The Revolutionary Communist International (RCI), formerly known as the International Marxist Tendency[1] (IMT) is a Trotskyist political international founded after Ted Grant and his followers broke from the Committee for a Workers' International. The RCI is active in over 40 countries. The RCI shares many similarities with a cult and engages in cult-building tactics to grow its influence.[2]
An Infamous example of the RCI's rigid dogmatism and cult-like beliefs, the American branch of the RCI, the RCA, rejects the theory of the Big Bang, as they claim it is in contradiction with dialectical materialism.[3][4]
Sections
- UK - Revolutionary Communist Party; Previously Socialist Appeal under the IMT.
- USA - Revolutionary Communists of America; section of the RCI in the United States.
- Canada - Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada);[5] previously Fightback.
References
- ↑ International Marxist Tendency (2024-02-12). "It is time to launch a Revolutionary Communist International!" In Defence of Marxism.
- ↑ Katsfoter (2024-04-02). "The Cult-Building Tendency" Red Clarion.
- ↑ “Today, sectarian organizations like the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) hold revisionist lines on the Big Bang theory[...]”
Donald Parkinson (2025-11-17). "Letter: The Dead Will Not Be Raised" Cosmonaut. - ↑ “But we are convinced that the irrational side of the theory—the idealistic notion of an origin to the universe; of a moment of creation of matter, space and time; and all the absurd mathematical patch ups that keep the theory going—all that will be forced to give way under the weight of observational evidence, and scientists will once more recognize that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.”
Ben Curry (2023-04-04). "The Big Bang: Shoehorning the Facts to Fit the Theory" Revolutionary Communists of America. - ↑ “The RCP is part of the Revolutionary Communist International”
RCP (2024-04-04). "A new Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is being founded" Newswire.