Political Positions and Intervention
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. However, at the same time, they reject Councilism saying it "expresses a movement away from the conceptions of revolutionary marxism"
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. Over the years, it has published a number of books and texts including:
- A history of the British Communist Left
- A history of the Russian Communist Left (recent issues of the International Review have included a previously unavailable complete edition of a document by Gavril Myasnikov)
- 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". The organisation's French section was heavily involved in the steelworkers' struggle in 1979. 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.
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