International Communist Current
International Communist Current | |
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Founded | January 1975 |
Newspaper | International Review |
Ideology | Left communism |
Political position | Far-left |
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https://en.internationalism.org/ |
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The International Communist Current (ICC) is a
History
In 1976, the ICC held its first international congress; among the participants was
In 1977, two years after both the formation of the ICC and Communist Workers Organisation, the Aberdeen and Edinburgh sections of the CWO left to join the ICC.[3] In 1981, many of those same members would split from the ICC to form the Communist Bulletin Group.
With Marc Chirik's death in 1990, having given his last 15 years to the organisation, the ICC published a brief summary of his life.[4][5]
Political positions and intervention
The ICC outlines its political positions in their short Basic Positions published on the back of every ICC publication as well as in their manifestos and platform.
The "Basic Positions" published on the back of every ICC publication define the organisation's activity as follows:
- "Political and theoretical clarification of the goals and methods of the proletarian struggle, of its historic and its immediate conditions.
- Organised intervention, united and centralised on an international scale, in order to contribute to the process which leads to the revolutionary action of the proletariat.
- The regroupment of revolutionaries with the aim of constituting a real world communist party, which is indispensable to the working class for the overthrow of capitalism and the creation of a communist society."
From the beginning, the ICC attached considerable importance to the republication and critique of texts from the workers' movement.[9] Over the years, it has published a number of books and texts including:
- A history of the British Communist Left[10]
- A history of the Russian Communist Left[11] (recent issues of the International Review have included a previously unavailable complete edition of a document by Gavril Myasnikov[12])
- A history of the Italian Communist Left
- A history of the Dutch and German Communist Left[13]
- A history of the left wing of the Turkish Communist Party
The ICC's conception of practical activity within the day-to-day struggles of the working class was set out in a "Reply to our critics".
Member Parties
Country | Party | Founded |
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Italy | International Communist Party | 1952 |
Venezuela | Internationalism | 1964 |
Publications
The ICC publishes its theoretical quarterly International Review in English, French, and Spanish.
It publishes regular agitational articles (in its printed press and/or on its web site), in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Tagalog, and Portuguese.
It also publishes less regularly or occasionally in Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Korean, Persian, Japanese and Swedish.
It has also published basic texts in Greek, Finnish, Chinese, Arabic and Hungarian.
India
Communist Internationalist is the press of the International Communist Current in India. It publishes pamphlets, leaflets and statements in English, Hindi and Bengali.
Notes
- ^ "Report on the International Conference | International Communist Current".
- ^ Bourseiller, p463-464
- ^ "The CWO: Past, present and future (Text by the Aberdeen and Edinburg seceders) | International Communist Current".
- ^ "Marc, Part 1: From the Revolution of October 1917 to World War II | International Communist Current".
- ^ "Marc, Part 2: From World War II to the present day | International Communist Current".
- ^ "What is the ICC? | International Communist Current".
- ^ "Basic Positions | International Communist Current".
- ^ Contribution to a history of the revolutionary movement: Introduction to the Dutch-German Left accessed 14 January 2012
- ^ Authier and Barrot's La Gauche Communiste en Allemagne mentions the critique of Daad en Gedachte published in the second issue of the International Review http://en.internationalism.org/node/2511
- ^ Cited in Spartacus educational resources: https://spartacus-educational.com/TUbsp.htm
- ISBN 9780415437035. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ "The Communist Left in Russia | International Communist Current".
- ^ "Order publications from the ICC | International Communist Current".
- ^ "On the intervention of revolutionaries: Reply to our critics | International Communist Current".
- ^ Bourseiller, p479
- ^ "Workers' Movement: Marxism against Freemasonry". International Communist Current. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
Sources
- Hempel, Pierre (1993). Marc Laverne et la Gauche Communiste de France, Tome 1. France: Châtillon.
- Bourseiller, Christophe (2003). Histoire générale de l'Ultra-Gauche. Paris: Editions Denoël. ISBN 2207251632.
- Internationale situationniste 1958-69. Amsterdam: Van Gennep. 1970.