The first was formed in 1939, as a breakaway from the Communist Party Opposition (KPO), and was linked to the centrist Marxist International Workers Front.
[1] The second was a Trotskyist group in West Germany, formed in 1968 by the International Communists of Germany (IKD) and a faction of the Socialist German Student League (SDS).
The GIM served as the German section of the reunified Fourth International.
The group was involved in the Extraparliamentary Opposition (APO) movement through the early 1970s.
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