| | Fourth International - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | Throughout the better part of its existence, the Fourth International was hounded by GPU agents, repressed by capitalist countries such as France and the United States, and rejected by followers of the Soviet Union and later Maoism as illegitimate (a position these communists still hold today). |
 | | By declaring themselves the Fourth International, the "World Party of Socialist Revolution", the Trotskyists were publicly asserting their continuity not only with the Comintern but also with the earlier Socialist International and the International Workingmen's Association, the first International, which had been led by Karl Marx. |
 | | The sections of the International that recognised the leadership of the IS remained optimistic about the possibilities for increasing the International's political influence and extended the entrism into Social Democratic Parties which was already underway in Britain, Austria and elsewhere. |
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