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The International Workingmen’s Association and the original Socialist International, the Second International, were the only two internationals that united three distinct movements:

1) The trade union movement;
2) the socialist movement of diverse class backgrounds; and
3) the independent, worker-class movement - or proletarian movement.

Upon the demise of the Second International, the first movement hobbled along to forge the Labour and Socialist International, and then later on today’s "Socialist" International.

The second movement split in two, naturally between reformists and revolutionaries. The latter formed the Comintern, the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre, the "World Party of Socialist Revolution" that was the Fourth International (Trotskyist), the International Conference of Communist and Workers Parties (official Communism), and other international groups.

However, there was no reforged proletarian / worker-class movement. The closest to this was the short-lived International Working Union of Socialist Parties, a mixture of liquidationist elements (alas) and realos that left the Comintern.

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