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Fourth International

American  

noun

  1. a loose federation of small groups of radical socialists formed in 1936 under the leadership of Leon Trotsky and hostile to the Soviet Union.


Fourth International British  

noun

  1. another name for Trotskyist International

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No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Heads of the Trotskyist Fourth International in Manhattan positively announced that the Robinsons were not members.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also kept his Fourth International as little more than a form of political schizophrenia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Downstairs the interior decorators of the country disported themselves at the Fourth International Antique Show, an elegant assemblage of ancient furnishings tastefully set off in booths and attended by debutantes.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is hardly necessary to say that I spared no effort to combat the insidious agents of the Fourth International.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward