International

The communist internationals in the order they were founded, from the First International to the present. Each one's page lists its own publishing houses and the manifestos, theses and congress proceedings issued in its name.

1. International Workingmen's Association

   1864–1876 · Socialist, Marxist and anarchist

   104 titles

   The first international workers' organisation, founded in London in 1864, for which Marx wrote the Inaugural Address and The Civil War in France. It split between Marxists and anarchists in 1872 and was dissolved in 1876.

2. Communist International

   1919–1943 · Marxist–Leninist

   913 titles · 2 publishing houses

   Lenin's Third International, founded in Moscow in 1919 to unite the communist parties of the world as sections of a single world party, until Stalin dissolved it in 1943.

3. Young Communist International

   1919–1943 · Marxist–Leninist

   289 titles · 1 publishing house

   The youth organisation of the Communist International, which led the communist youth leagues of the world from 1919 until 1943.

4. Red International of Labour Unions

   1921–1937 · Marxist–Leninist

   78 titles · 1 publishing house

   The Profintern: the Comintern's international of revolutionary trade unions, founded in 1921 against the reformist Amsterdam International and wound up in 1937.

5. International Red Aid

   1922–1947 · Marxist–Leninist

   176 titles · 1 publishing house

   MOPR: the Comintern's organisation for the aid of political prisoners and their families, with national sections in some seventy countries from 1922.

6. Peasant International

   1923–1939 · Marxist–Leninist

   0 titles

   The Krestintern, founded by the Comintern in 1923 to win the peasant parties of Eastern Europe and the colonies to an alliance with the workers.

7. Fourth International

   1938–present · Trotskyist

   112 titles

   Trotsky's international, founded in 1938 against both capitalism and Stalinism; it split in 1953, and several rival internationals have since claimed its name.

8. Communist Information Bureau

   1947–1956 · Marxist–Leninist

   13 titles · 1 publishing house

   The Communist Information Bureau of the Soviet, Eastern European, French and Italian parties, founded in 1947. It expelled Yugoslavia in 1948 and was dissolved in 1956.

9. International Conferences of Communist and Workers' Parties

   1957–1990 · Marxist–Leninist (pro-Soviet)

   106 titles · 1 publishing house

   The world conferences of the communist and workers' parties held in Moscow in 1957, 1960 and 1969, and their joint journal Problems of Peace and Socialism, published in Prague from 1958 to 1990.

10. Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

    1984–2012 · Maoist (Marxism–Leninism–Maoism)

    2 titles

    An international of Maoist parties founded in 1984, among them the Communist Party of Peru and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which published the journal A World to Win.

11. International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations

    1994–present · Marxist–Leninist (Hoxhaist)

    1 title

    The international of the Marxist–Leninist parties that kept to the line of Enver Hoxha's Albania, founded in Quito in 1994.

12. International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties

    1998–present · Marxist–Leninist

    1 title

    The annual meeting of some eighty communist and workers' parties, begun by the Communist Party of Greece in Athens in 1998.