A political international is a transnational
organizationof political parties having similar
ideology or political orientation (e.g. communism,
conservatism, Islamism, liberalism and socialism).
The international works together on points
of agreement to co-ordinate activity.
Political internationals have increased in
popularity and influence since their beginnings
in the political left of 19th-century Europe
as political activists have paid more attention
to developments for or against their own ideological
favor in other countries and continents.
After World War II, other ideological movements
formed their own political internationals
in order to communicate among aligned parliamentarians
and legislative candidates as well as to communicate
with intergovernmental and supranational organisations
such as the United Nations and later the European
Union.
Internationals also form supranational and
regional branches (e.g. a European branch
or an African branch) and maintain fraternal
or governing relationships with sector-specific
wings (e.g. youth or women's wings).
Internationals usually do not have a significant
role.
Internationals provide the parties an opportunity
for sharing of experience.
The parties belonging to internationals have
various obligations and can be expelled for
not meeting those obligations.
For example, during the 2011 Arab spring the
Socialist International expelled the governing
parties of Tunisia and Egypt for performing
actions incompatible with values of this international.
== List of notable internationals ==
=== Current ===
Centrist Democrat International (Christian
democracy), founded in 1961
Committee for a Workers' International (Trotskyism),
founded in 1974
Foro de São Paulo (socialism of the 21st
century), founded in 1990
Fourth International (Trotskyism), founded
in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and later split into
several competing internationals and subsequently
reunified in 1963
Global Greens (green politics), founded in
2001
Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamism), founded in 1953
Humanist International (humanism), founded
in 1989 by the Humanist Movement
International Alliance of Libertarian Parties
(right-libertarianism), founded in 2015
International of Anarchist Federations (synthesis
anarchism), founded in 1968
International Communist Seminar (Marxism–Leninism),
founded in 1996
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist
Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
(Marxism–Leninism), founded in 1994
International Democrat Union (conservatism),
founded in 1993
International League of Peoples' Struggle
(Marxism–Leninism–Maoism), founded in
2001
International Marxist Tendency (Trotskyism),
founded in 1998
International Meeting of Communist and Workers
Parties (communism), founded in 1998
International Monarchist League (monarchism,
constitutional monarchy), founded in 1943
International Workers' Association (anarcho-syndicalism),
founded in 1922
Liberal International (liberalism), founded
in 1947 and constituted by the Oxford Manifesto
Muslim Brotherhood (Islamism), founded in
1928
Pirate Parties International (pirate politics),
founded in 2010
Progressive Alliance (social democracy and
progressivism), a network of centre-left parties
formed as a rival to the Socialist International
in 2013
Socialist International (democratic socialism),
a federation of socialist parties founded
in 1951
World Socialist Movement (Marxism), founded
in 1904
=== Defunct ===
Alliance of Democrats (liberalism), gathering
groups similar in outlook to the European
Democratic Party and the United States Democratic
Party founded in 2005, but inactive since
2012
Anarchist St. Imier International (anarchism),
formed after the expulsion of the anarchists
from the First International by the Marxist
faction at the Hague Congress, founded in
1872 and defunct since 1877
Communist International (revolutionary socialism),
also known as Comintern and the Third International,
a federation of communist parties founded
in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin and dissolved in
1943 by Joseph Stalin
E2D International (E-democracy, direct democracy),
founded on 1 January 2011, but inactive since
29 August 2013
Fascist International (fascism), also known
as the 1934 Montreux Fascist conference, a
conference of European fascist parties held
on 16–17 December 1934 in Montreux, Switzerland
International Libertarian Solidarity (anarchism),
founded in 2001
International Workingmen's Association (communism,
anarchism and revolutionary socialism), commonly
known as the First International, founded
in 1864 and defunct by 1876
International Working People's Association
(anarchism), also known as the Black International,
founded in 1881 and defunct by 1886
Second International (socialism), founded
in 1889 and dissolved in 1916
Situationist International (libertarian socialism),
revolutionary grouping operating from 1957
to 1972
== Not internationals, but similar in functioning
==
Anarkismo.net, grouping of platformist/especifista
anarchist political organisations launched
in 2005 to facilitate greater international
cooperation, but far from being an international
at this point
International Conference of Asian Political
Parties, founded in 2002, promotes cooperation
and exchange between Asian parties of several
ideologies
Transnational Radical Party, political association
of libertarian, liberal and radical citizens,
parliamentarians and government members of
various national and political backgrounds
founded in 1989 and associated with the United
Nations Economic and Social Council
World Ecological Parties, association of centrist
environmentalist parties founded in 2003
== See also ==
List of international labor organizations
List of left-wing internationals
List of Trotskyist internationals
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