International Group

The International Group was the name taken by two groups of British supporters of the Fourth International.

In both cases, the Group was formed as a public faction by members loyal to the International who felt that the then-current leadership of the British section of the Fourth International had broken with its political continuity.

International Group (Riga)

The International group was a Riga-based radical anarchist organization, active around the time of the Russian revolution of 1905. The leaflets of the group carried Bakunin's dictum, 'The urge to destroy is a creative urge' in their mastheads. In its propaganda of the organization denounced the notion that the 1905 revolution had been 'a democratic revolution'. The group rejected the line of the socialists, accusing them of seeking compromises with the capitalists within the parliamentary framework. In 1906 six teen-age members of the International group were sentenced to death and executed.

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