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Grant was the long time leader of the Militant Tendency in the British Labour Party until many of his supporters were expelled. At that point Militant split into two factions. The majority formed Militant Labour outside the Labour Party, which subsequentially became the Socialist Party. Grant maintained that Marxists should remain within mainstream Labour, was expelled and formed Socialist Appeal in Britain.

In 1974, Militant and its co-thinkers from Sweden, Ireland and elsewhere around the world formed the Committee for a Workers International. The faction fight within Militant that led to the expulsion of Grant and Woods also played itself out within the CWI with supporters of the Grant minority being expelled to form the CMI.

Just as the Grant and Woods led Socialist Appeal tendency pursues a policy of entrism in the British Labour Party, CMI groups outside Britan pursue entrism in equivalents of the Labour Party (where they exist), some Communist Parties such as those in Israel and Italy and, in some countries, progressive bourgeois parties such as the Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto.

The CMI has elected three MPs in Pakistan (running for the Pakistan Peoples Party) and has developed throughout Latin America, where it now has groups in Venezuela, Peru, Argentina and Mexico. At present it maintains the well-known website Marxist.com (In Defence of Marxism)

See also: List of Trotskyist internationalsThis is a list of the many Trotskyist international tendencies. Some claim to be the original Fourth International or to be refounding, reorganising it and so forth. There is also considerable overlap between the various tendencies with some being within