The International
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The International may refer to:
Politics:
- The First International (1864-1876), an international organisation of communists, anarchists and revolutionary socialists.
- The Second International (1889-1916), which supplanted the First International following its dissolution, caused by a split between anarchists and communists.
- The Comintern (a.k.a. the "Third International") (1919-1943), a federation of communist parties founded by Lenin and later dissolved by Stalin.
- The Fourth International, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and later split into several competing "Internationals" (see List of Trotskyist 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".)
- *For other left-wing organisations called Internationals, see List of left-wing internationals
- The Liberal International, founded in 1947 and modelled after the Socialist International.
- A well-known anthem of international socialism: The Internationale (The title of the song is an allusion to the First International.)
- A golf tournament on the United States PGA TOUR: The INTERNATIONAL.
- A literary journal founded in 1912 by George Sylvester Viereck.
- The various editions of Webster's New International Dictonary, often used as a jocular allusion to the political organisations mentioned above.
- *(Example: "The Third International is safely lodged in my bookshelf at home, where it won't do any harm").
- A famous nightclub in Manchester, England, which was the home to The Stone Roses.
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