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The International Communist Current (ICC) is a Left Communist
international organisation. It was founded in 1975, and has published an
international quarterly in English and French from that date.
Subsequently a Spanish edition has also been made available.
Contents [hide]
1 Pre-history 1.1 Marc Chirik
1.2 May 1968 and the formation of "Révolution Internationale"
2 Foundation of the ICC, 1975
3 Political positions and intervention
4 Publications 4.1 India
5 External links
6 Notes
7 Sources
Pre-history[edit]
Marc Chirik[edit]
One of the key figures in the formation of the ICC was Marc Chirik, one
of the founders of the Palestinian Communist Party at the age of 13.[1]
Arriving in France in 1924, Chirik was expelled from the French
Communist Party shortly afterwards, at the same time as Albert
Treint,[2] and with latter participated in the short-lived "Ligue
Communiste".[3] In 1935 he joined the "Bilan" group of the "Italian
Fraction of the Communist Party" based in Paris. Mobilised briefly
during the "Phoney War", and imprisoned by the Germans after the
collapse of the French armies, Chirik managed to escape to Marseilles
where he spent the rest of the war. In 1941, under the difficult and
dangerous conditions first of the Vichy regime, then of the German
occupation, Chirik was one of a small group of militants from the
Italian Fraction, who had escaped to Marseille and managed little by
little to renew contacts with others in Belgium and Paris.[4]
In 1942, a "French Fraction of the Communist Left" was formed alongside
the Italian Fraction, with Chirik's encouragement. Disagreements with
the majority of the Italian Fraction as to how to react to the uprisings
in Italy at the end of World War II led Chirik to join the French
Fraction in 1945, the latter transforming itself into the "Gauche
Communiste de France" (Communist Left in France) in the same year. The
GCF was to publish a newspaper (L'Etincelle) and a theoretical review
(Internationalisme) between 1945 and 1952.[5] In 1952, the GCF (fearing
an outbreak of a new world war as a result of the conflict in Korea)
decided to disperse its handful of militants around the world, and
Chirik left France for Venezuela; with his departure, the GCF went into
decline and disappeared.
May 1968 and the formation of "Révolution Internationale"[edit]
It was not until 1963 that Chirik was able to form around him a new
group, essentially made up of students, which began to publish
Internacionalismo in 1965 and developed correspondence with other groups
around the world, notably News and Letters in the USA, and the
short-lived "Mouvement pour l'instauration des conseils" created in
Toulouse in 1968 and which began publishing Révolution Internationale in
1969.[6] The group quickly achieved a certain notoriety[citation
needed]. The Situationist International, however, criticised them for
intellectual dishonesty.[7] In 1970, Chirik returned definitively to
France and joined the RI group.
The early 1970s was a period of intense discussion amongst a whole
series of groups in the process of rediscovering the heritage of what
was known as the left Communism. RI took an active part in the process,
participating regularly in the meetings of Informations et
Correspondances Ouvrières.[8] In June 1972, a conference in Clermont
Ferrand decided on the merger of RI, the "Cahiers du Communisme de
Conseils" from Marseille, and the "Organisation conseilliste de Clermont
Ferrand".
Foundation of the ICC, 1975[edit]
International discussions took place between RI and several other
groups: World Revolution, a break away group from Solidarity in Great
Britain,[9] Internationalism (USA), Internacionalismo (Venezuela), and
Accion Proletaria (Spain) led to the formation in 1975 of the
International Communist Current, which published the first issue of its
International Review in April 1975. The following year, a minority
faction of the Communist Workers Organisation joined World Revolution (UK).
In 1976, the ICC held its first international congress; among the
participants was Jan Appel, a veteran of the German Revolution and the
1920 Ruhr Uprising. In the years that followed, contact was also opened
up with Onorato Damen of the Partito Comunista Internazionalista in
Italy, and with Cajo Brendel of Daad en Gedachte in the Netherlands.[10]
In 1981, a group of members, mostly based in Scotland, split from World
Revolution (UK) to form the Communist Bulletin Group.
At Marc Chirik's death in 1990, having given his last 15 years to the
organisation, the ICC published a brief summary of his life.[11][12]
Political positions and intervention[edit]
The ICC claims to have created a "synthesis" of the different elements
of the Left Communist tradition, in particular those targeted by Lenin
in his famous Left Wing Communism, an infantile disorder: against
participation in parliament or the trades unions, and against "entryism"
into the Social Democratic, Labour, Communist or Trotskyist parties.[13]
However, at the same time, they reject Councilism saying it "expresses a
movement away from the conceptions of revolutionary marxism".[14]
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.[15] Over
the years, it has published a number of books and texts including:
A history of the British Communist Left[16]
A history of the Russian Communist Left[17] (recent issues of the
International Review have included a previously unavailable complete
edition of a document by Gavril Myasnikov[18])
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".[19] The organisation's French section was heavily involved in
the steelworkers' struggle in 1979.[20] In November 2010, the ICC joined
people advocating the use of "legitimate force" to stop a rise in
tuition fees at British universities to mobilise school children. At
least one ICC member attended a planning meeting of the Education
Activist Network campaign group.[21]
Publications[edit]
The ICC continues to publish 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, Farsi, Japanese and Swedish.
It has also published basic texts in Greek, Finnish, Chinese, and Hungarian.
India[edit]
Communist Internationalist is the press of the International Communist
Current in India. It publishes pamphlets, leaflets and statements in
English, Hindi and Bengali.
External links[edit]
ICC website
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Pierre Hempel, Marc Laverne, p16.
2.Jump up ^ Vie de Treint,
http://www.collectif-smolny.org/article.php3?id_article=292
3.Jump up ^ Hempel, p35
4.Jump up ^ Hempel, p59
5.Jump up ^ Smolny presentation of Internationalisme
http://www.collectif-smolny.org/article.php3?id_article=521
6.Jump up ^ Bourseiller, p206
7.Jump up ^ On libcom,
http://libcom.org/library/internationale-situationiste-12-article-4
8.Jump up ^ Bourseiller, p458
9.Jump up ^ Recollections of my time in Solidarity Accessed 14 January 2012
10.Jump up ^ Bourseiller, p463-464
11.Jump up ^ http://en.internationalism.org/ir/065/marc-01
12.Jump up ^ http://en.internationalism.org/ir/066/marc-02
13.Jump up ^ http://en.internationalism.org/basic-positions
14.Jump up ^ Contribution to a history of the revolutionary movement:
Introduction to the Dutch-German Left accessed 14 January 2012
15.Jump up ^ 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
16.Jump up ^ Cited in Spartacus educational resources:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUbsp.htm
17.Jump up ^ Cited in Pirani, Simon. The Russian Revolution in Retreat,
1920-24. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
18.Jump up ^ http://en.internationalism.org/series/1237
19.Jump up ^ http://en.internationalism.org/node/2748
20.Jump up ^ Bourseiller, p479
21.Jump up ^ Loveys, Kate; Harding, Eleanor (22 November 2010). "Student
militants to picket school gates over tuition fees". Daily Mail (London).
Sources[edit]
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.
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