Communist Workers International

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The Communist Workers International (German: Kommunistische Arbeiter-Internationale, KAI) or Fourth International was a council communist international. It was founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.

The organisation was founded in 1922, following a split in the KAPD, by members of the Essen Faction, including Herman Gorter (the Berlin Faction holding that the formation of an international was premature). It was joined by the Communist Workers Party of the Netherlands, Sylvia Pankhurst's Communist Workers Party in Britain, the Group of Revolutionary Left Communists in Russia (who accordingly renamed themselves the Communist Workers Party), the Communist Workers' Group in Russia and some left communists in Belgium and Bulgaria.

The International was never able to organise joint activities and probably never reached 1,000 members. It was weakened by the dissolution of some of its members groups, and the departure of the Russian Communist Workers Group, who disagreed with its opposition to a united front with the Third International. The KAI appears to have disbanded in the mid-1920s.