International Communist Review - Issue 14 - 2025
Section I: On the Communist Party
The Communist Party: Essence and Form, Aydemir Güler (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
The Communist Party as the organizer and leader of the people’s struggle for the cause of workers’ power in the 21st century, Dimitris Koutsoumbas (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
Communist Party: The Contemporary Party of the Revolution, Ideological Section of the CC of the PCM (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
Reflections on the role of the Communist Party in the contemporary world, Severino Menéndez (“Nuestra Politica”, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain)
On the significance of the Marxist–Leninist party in the revolutionary class struggle, Tibor Zenker (Party of Labour of Austria)
The false antagonism between “progressives” and liberals, and the validity of the vanguard role of the communist party in the Latin American and Caribbean revolution, Héctor Alejo Rodríguez & Carlos Ojeda Falcón (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)
Processes of decommunization, prohibition of communist parties and trade unions in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, (Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan)
Section II: On timely political and theoretical issues
Contemporary conclusions from the imperialist Second World War, Kostas Skolarikos (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
On Fascism and Anti-Fascism, Pável Blanco Cabrera (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
Table of Contents
Dear reader,
You hold in your hands the 14th issue of the “International Communist Review” (ICR), which is devoted to the Communist Party. Where did it begin, on what principles and with what aims is the CP founded? What historical experiences, positive and negative, has the CP accumulated? ...
On the basis of our world view and our constitutional principles, the Communist Party is the Party of the working class, its conscious and organized ideological and political vanguard, its supreme form of organization. ...
More than 120 years have passed since the debates of the Second Congress of the RSDLP and Lenin's writing of “What is to be done?” and other works on matters of organization and theory of the Party, which was validated by a constant process of fusion, according to Engels, of "scientific ...
The Communist Party (CP), with its differential features, is forged and rooted in the revolutionary period in Russia. This party, which has received and receives different names —Bolshevik, Party of a New Type, Revolutionary working-class party... ...
The Party of Labour of Austria (PdA) sees itself as the Marxist-Leninist party of the Austrian working class. Against this background, it must fulfil certain functions and tasks, which are to be understood as characteristics, guidelines and objectives. ...
In the last 25 years, the situation of the class struggle in the Latin American continent has undergone important changes that merit a profound study by the Communist and Workers’ Parties. ...
In this article, we point out that the processes of decommunization, the prohibition of communist parties, the liquidation of trade unions, and the prohibition of strikes and rallies are closely linked and are a unified policy of the ruling class as part of a strategy to retain power, ...
The 80th anniversary of the end of the imperialist Second World War brings us closer to the realization of the possibility of a new generalized imperialist conflict. ...
There is no doubt that the term fascism is totally distorted, it is used without rigor to designate any repressive act or reactionary policy, and this obviously generates confusion. This happens between political forces of different traces, and also in the international communist movement. ...
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