International Communist Review - Issue 9 - 2019
The class struggle, the labour and trade union movement and the role of the Communist Parties, Gerry Grainger (“Think Left”, Workers’ Party of Ireland)
The backbone of Leninist organization: workplace cells, Alpaslan Savaş (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
Workers’ democracy and taking power, Vyacheslav Sychev (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
Political work among the working class and the labour and trade union movement, the experience of the Communist Party of Mexico, Labour Movement – Trade Union Commission of PCM (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
On the work of the communists in the labour and trade union movement in Greece and in Europe and the need for its regroupment, Giannis Protoulis (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
Workers Shift. The Work of Spanish Communists to Organise the Working Class, Armiche Carrillo (“Nuestra Politica”, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain)
The Communist Party of Venezuela in the Labour and Trade Union Movement, Pedro Euse (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)
Splintered proletariat: Bourgeois democracy against workers’ solidarity, Vladimir Frolov (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)
Regarding the necessary participation of workers in the party and trade unions- bitter historical lessons for further organized struggle for socialism, Marijan Kubik (New Communist Party of Yugoslavia)
Working movement of Kazakhstan in the period of restoration of capitalism and in the conditions of bourgeois dictatorship, (Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan)
The Italian Working Class throughout the capitalistic crisis, Guido Ricci and Alberto Lombardo (“La Riscossa”, Communist Party, Italy)
Table of Contents
Dear Reader,
The 9th issue of the "International Communist Review", which you are holding in your hands, is dedicated to the working class, the labor - trade union movement and the work of the communists in it. ...
“The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing” Karl Marx [1]
“It is not a question of what this or that proletarian, or even the whole proletariat, at the moment regards as its aim. ...
The struggle between capital and labor has been going on for more than two centuries. We know that throughout this long history both social classes have taken many crucial lessons, the most important of which is about organization. ...
In 2017 all progressive people celebrated the centennial anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. One hundred years ago workers and peasants managed to take power from capitalists and landlords in order to construct a new world. ...
Next year it will be a century of existence and activity of the Communists in the life of Mexico - since the Mexican Section of the Communist International (PCM) was created in 1919 - and, of course, there is already an important accumulated experience in the labour and trade union movement. ...
In January of 2018 in Davos at the luxurious ski resort of eastern Switzerland, more than 3000 participants met at the World Economic Forum, as they do every year. ...
The dominance at planet level of capitalism as ruling mode of production imposes its rules of functioning to every country in the world. Thus the capital-labour contradiction remains the essential piece over which the capitalist system of domination and the basic gear which makes it work rest ...
Venezuela is in the attention of the international media. This attention forms part of the campaign by the forces of North American and European imperialism, which looks to manufacture an array of opinions that work towards fulfilling a plan to retake entire control of the country and to once ...
In the end of the XIX century, in the Governorates of Livonia and Courland of the Russian Empire (part of territory of the today’s Latvia), capitalism was rapidly developing. As refers to the population, Latvia was only 1.5% of all inhabitants of the Russian Empire, but it produced 5. ...
Numerous analyses were written about the weaknesses that accompanied the construction of socialism. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the often neglected fact of the degradation of the party from within, its separation from the working class and popular strata. ...
In this paper we want to analyze the processes and trends in the labor movement of Kazakhstan throughout modern history since 1991, in order to learn from this and to set ourselves and the workers the next task. ...
The Communist Party, being the organized revolutionary vanguard of the working class, is expected to have strong ties with it, but sometimes the knowledge of the real situation of the working class is poor and superficial, often based on abstract, sometimes even dogmatic, concepts and ...
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