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Transmission belt is aMarxist–Leninist analogy to describe interactions of thecommunist party with the people in acommunist state via mass organizations, such astrade unions. All these institutions worked under the party's leadership.[1] Examples are theAll-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of theSoviet Union and theAll-China Federation of Trade Unions, were and are transmission belt organisations.[2]
The term originates[citation needed] fromVladimir Lenin's speech to the8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, theAll-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and theMoscow City Council of Trade Unions, on 30 December 1920.[3]