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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
- 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