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The CWI was founded in 1975 by supporters of what was then called the Militant Tendency in Britain, Sweden, Ireland and several other countries. Until the early 1990s CWI sections persued a policy of entrism[[ into [[social democratic or labour parties but this largely ended in the 1990s due to an analysis that these parties had become bourgeoisified and were no longer mass workers parties. Since this open turn CWI sections have, in a number of countries, run candidates under their own name electing Joe Higgins to the Irish Dail as the Socialist Party as well as several councillors in Britain, particularly London and Coventry. The CWI also has elected members of national or regional legislatures or local councils in Sweden, the Netherlands and parts of the ex-Soviet Union.
CWI members also played a leading role in founding the Scottish Socialist Party though, due to a split, leading SSP members such as Tommy Sheridan are no longer in the CWI.