In socialist party politics, a tendency is a political faction, usually within a Marxist party or a Marxist faction of a wider party.
Examples include:
Debs Tendency, a group formed around Eugene Debs in the Socialist Party USA International Marxist Tendency, the former name of the Revolutionary Communist International International Socialist Tendency, a coalition of Trotskyist organizations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff Johnson–Forest Tendency, a Trotskyist group in the Workers Party (1940–1949) of the United States Marxist Tendency, a Trotskyist organization in post-Soviet Russia Militant tendency, a Trotskyist group in the UK Labour Party in the 1980s Militant Tendency (Ireland), a Trotskyist group that became the Irish Socialist Party Pathfinder tendency, a group of organizations that cooperate with the Socialist Workers Party of the United States
See also Revolutionary Tendency (disambiguation)