International Communist Current | |
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 ICC logo derived from original artwork byBoris Kustodiev, as first used in the Communist International's review (1919). | |
| Abbreviation | ICC |
| Founded | January 1975 (1975-01) |
| Newspaper | International Review |
| Ideology | Left communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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| https://en.internationalism.org/ | |
TheInternational Communist Current (ICC) is aleft communist international organisation. It was founded at a conference in January 1975 where it was established as a centralised organisation with sections inFrance,Britain,Spain, United States,Italy, andVenezuela.[1] It would go on to establish sections inBelgium,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,India,Turkey,Philippines,Brazil,Peru,Ecuador andMexico. The ICC published the first issue of its theoretical journalInternational Review in April 1975 and since then has published it quarterly, mainly in English, French and Spanish.
In 1976, the ICC held its first international congress; among the participants wasJan Appel, a veteran of theGerman Revolution and the 1920Ruhr Uprising. In the years that followed, contact was also opened up withOnorato Damen of theInternationalist Communist Party in Italy, and withCajo Brendel of Daad en Gedachte in the Netherlands.[2]
In 1977, two years after both the formation of the ICC andCommunist 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 theCommunist 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]
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.[6] It claims to have created a "synthesis" of the different elements of the left communist tradition, in particular those targeted byVladimir Lenin in his famous"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder: against participation in parliament or the trades unions, and against "entryism" into theSocial Democratic, Labour, Communist orTrotskyist parties.[7] However, at the same time they reject varieties ofcouncilism which reject theRussian Revolution, saying that they express "a movement away from the conceptions of revolutionary Marxism".[8]
The "Basic Positions" published on the back of every ICC publication define the organisation's activity as follows:
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:
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".[14] The organisation's French section was heavily involved in the steelworkers' struggle in 1979.[15] The ICC has defined itself asanti-freemasonry, stating that "As exploiting classes, these enemies of the proletariat necessarily employ secrecy and deception both against each other and against the working class."[16]
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| Country | Party | Founded |
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 Italy | International Communist Party | 1952 |
 Venezuela | Internationalism | 1964 |
The ICC publishes its theoretical quarterlyInternational 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.
Communist Internationalist is the press of the International Communist Current inIndia. It publishes pamphlets, leaflets and statements inEnglish,Hindi andBengali.
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