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International Communist Review - Issue 4 - 2013

Participation in government by Communist Parties: a way out of capitalist crisis?, Herwig Lerouge (“Etudes Marxistes”, Workers’ Party of Belgium)

The struggle of the KKE against Opportunism. The experience from 1949-1968, Makis Mailis (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)

Struggle against modern opportunism and revisionism - Experience of Hungarian communists, Gyula Thürmer (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party)

Without Marxist-Leninist orientation and organisational independence there is no Communist Party, Ali Ruckert (“Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek”, Communist Party of Luxemburg)

Some characteristics of opportunism in America, Pável Blanco Cabrera and Héctor Colío Galindo (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)

Leninist principles on the criticism of opportunism and revisionism as an integral part of communists' struggle against imperialism, Tyulkin Viktor Arkadievich (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)

The European Dimension of opportunism: The ELP and the role of the PCE, Ástor García and Raúl Martínez (“Propuesta Comunista”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)

Opportunism and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ The lucrative business of ‘revolution’ under imperialism’s command, Alper Birdal (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)

The Struggle of the Communist Party of Venezuela against Opportunism, Editorial Board of the Magazine “Debate Abierto” (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Dear reader, After dealing with several subjects of vital importance for the international communist and workers' movement like the capitalist crisis, the construction of socialism or the historical role of the working class, we now present a new issue of the International Communist Review ...

Participation in government by Communist Parties: a way out of capitalist crisis?

In recent months, the possibility of participation in government by some (former) communist parties has been on the agenda. In Germany, Die Linke has participated and is still participating in regional governments. The party has debated a possible participation on a federal level. ...

The struggle of the KKE against Opportunism. The experience from 1949-1968

The Second Volume of the Essay on the History of the KKE was published in November 2011 after many months of discussion in all the organizations of the Party and the Communist Youth of Greece. ...

Struggle against modern opportunism and revisionism - Experience of Hungarian communists

In 2004 the Hungarian Workers’ Party (Munkáspárt) was just celebrating its 15th anniversary when a heavy political and ideological attack was launched against the party. ...

Without Marxist-Leninist orientation and organisational independence there is no Communist Party

The intentions to destroy the Communist Party have started already in the time of the publication of the first works of the Marxist theory. Only four years after the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” was published, we have witnessed the attempt to ban the Party of Communists, which was just ...

Some characteristics of opportunism in America

Opportunism, reformism and revisionism now seek, with a renewed discourse, their old ambitions of disengaging the working class and its communist parties from Marxism’s fundamentals, from the revolutionary struggle against capitalism, from the principles of dictatorship of the proletariat; from ...

Leninist principles on the criticism of opportunism and revisionism as an integral part of communists' struggle against imperialism

When we have a look at our communist movement, in a number of cases there could be observed really childish attitudes and moods in relationships between the parties. ...

The European Dimension of opportunism: The ELP and the role of the PCE

“The proletariat fights for the revolutionary overthrow of the imperialist bourgeoisie; the petty bourgeoisie fights for the reformist “improvement” of imperialism, for adaptation to it, while submitting to it” [1] V.I. Lenin

Opportunism and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ The lucrative business of ‘revolution’ under imperialism’s command

On July 29, 2012, The New York Times published an article by Neil MacFarquhar with the following title: “As Syria war drags on, jihadists take bigger role”. ...

The Struggle of the Communist Party of Venezuela against Opportunism

In its 80 years of existence, the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), like many other communist and workers' parties of the world has faced in more than one occasion both right opportunism and left opportunism. ...