A political international is a trans-national organisation of political parties or activists. The international works together on points of agreement to co-ordinate activity.
[edit] List of Notable Internationals
- International Workingmen's Association, commonly known as the First International, an international organisation of communists, anarchists and revolutionary socialists, founded in 1864 and defunct since 1876)
- Second International (Socialism), founded in 1889 and dissolved in 1916
- Comintern (also known as the Third International), a federation of communist parties founded by Lenin in 1919 and dissolved by Stalin in 1943
- Fourth International (Trotskyism), founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and later split into several competing "Internationals"
- Reunified Fourth International (Trotskyism)
- Socialist International, a federation of political parties dedicated to social democracy and democratic socialism founded in 1923 (sometimes referred to as the "Fourth International")
- Liberal International (Liberalism), founded in 1947 and constituted by the Oxford Manifesto
- Libertarian International Organization, activist and party-notation federation for Libertarians
- International Democrat Union (Conservatism)
- Centrist Democrat International (mainly Christian Democrats, also social christians, centrists, liberal conservatives, conservative liberals, reformist centrist, religious democrats from other religions and other moderate right, centre and centre-right forces)
- Humanist International (Humanism)
- Global Greens (Green politics)
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