The International

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The International may refer to:

Politics:

• The International Workingmen's Association, more commonly referred to as the First International, an international organisation of communists, anarchists and revolutionary socialists, founded in 1864
• The Second International, founded in 1889 and dissolved in 1916
• The Comintern (also known as the Third International), a federation of communist parties founded by Lenin in 1919 and dissolved by Stalin in 1943
• The Fourth International, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and later split into several competing "Internationals"
• The Socialist International, a federation of political parties dedicated to social democracy and democratic socialism founded in 1923 (sometimes also referred to as the "Fourth International")
• The Liberal International, founded in 1947 and modelled after the Socialist International
• "The Internationale," a well-known anthem of international socialism

Other uses:

• The International (film), an upcoming film starring Naomi Watts and Clive Owen
• The International (golf), a golf tournament on the United States PGA tour
• The International, a literary journal founded in 1912 by George Sylvester Viereck
• The International, a famous nightclub in Manchester, England
• The various editions of Webster's New International Dictionary, often used as a jocular allusion to the political organisations mentioned above

See also:

• List of left-wing internationals, for other left-wing organisations called Internationals
• International
• International (disambiguation)