Comintern Congress News Today

Without retelling the myths and legends about ‘Grandpa Lenin’, let's turn to some confirmed facts in his biography.

This lecture on the origins of the Fourth International was delivered by Clara Weiss and Johannes Stern at the 2023 SEP (US) international Summer School.

On the 18 June 2022 TUC demonstration on the cost of living crisis, the Young Communist League sub-contingent, dressed in black with red facemasks, made an instructive and highly damaging intervention. Among their chants were: “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! Che Guevara! Stalin!” On 29 June 2022, Andrew Murray wrote in the Morning Star, paper of Communist Party of Britain (CPB), defending the chant. He wrote:

On the 18 June 2022 TUC demonstration on the cost of living crisis, the Young Communist League sub-contingent, dressed in black with red facemasks, made an instructive and highly damaging intervention. Among their chants were: “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! Che Guevara! Stalin!” On 29 June 2022, Andrew Murray wrote in the Morning Star, paper of Communist Party of Britain (CPB), defending the chant. He wrote:

On the 18 June 2022 TUC demonstration on the cost of living crisis, the Young Communist League sub-contingent, dressed in black with red facemasks, made an instructive and highly damaging intervention. Among their chants were: “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! Che Guevara! Stalin!” On 29 June 2022, Andrew Murray wrote in the Morning Star, paper of Communist Party of Britain (CPB), defending the chant. He wrote:

"A People's History of Iraq", by Ilario Salucci. Haymarket Books 2005 This book is an odd patchwork, and misleadingly titled (it is not at all a general history of Iraq), but contains some useful stuff. The core of it is 100 pages, first published in Italian in 2003, of a fairly breathless narrative history of the Iraqi Communist Party up to 2002 by Salucci. Added to that in the English edition are:

Review: Reiner Tosstorff, The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920-1937. Haymarket (2018)

“The predominating type among the present ‘Communist’ bureaucrats is the political careerist, and in consequence the polar opposite of the revolutionist. Their ideal is to attain in their own country the same position that the Kremlin oligarchy gained in the USSR. They are not the revolutionary leaders of the proletariat but aspirants to totalitarian rule. They dream of gaining success with the aid of this same Soviet bureaucracy and its GPU.

“The predominating type among the present ‘Communist’ bureaucrats is the political careerist, and in consequence the polar opposite of the revolutionist. Their ideal is to attain in their own country the same position that the Kremlin oligarchy gained in the USSR. They are not the revolutionary leaders of the proletariat but aspirants to totalitarian rule. They dream of gaining success with the aid of this same Soviet bureaucracy and its GPU.