What happened? Sukharev Tower, destroyed in 1934. The first metro line. Multi-colored and amazing...” Konstantin Yuon. “It happened in Penkov”, Alexander Deineka. Features of the new socialist culture. "New Moscow". "The Pig Farmer and the Shepherd" "Mastering a tractor." S. Kirsanov “Our hands will learn everything.” We will pull out all the riddles by thread. "Lovers". "Red Jew" The walls of China Town. "Storm of the Kremlin in 1917." Talkies.

“USSR in the 20-30s” - Social Policy. Results in the political sphere. The ideological basis of the course is the Stalinist concept of the country's development. Reasons for the collapse of NEPA. Economic transformations. Causes civil war. Approval of the command-administrative model of the economy. Regime of personal power I.V. Stalin. The first Soviet Constitution. Character traits NEPA. Soviet state and society (1917 - late 30s). Reasons for the defeat of anti-Soviet forces.

“Foreign Policy of the USSR in the 20s” - Recognition streak. An attempt to “ignite” the fire of the world revolution. Treaty of Rappal and its significance. Curzon's ultimatum. International situation and foreign policy in the 20s. Comintern. Conference participants. Foreign policy factor. Diplomatic conflicts with the West. Genoa Conference. Directions of foreign policy in the 20s. The first peace treaties. Strip of diplomatic recognition of the USSR. Features of contracts.

“NEP in Siberia” - History of the Russian economy. External labor migration during the NEP period. New economic policy(NEP) had a positive impact. It should be noted that the interpretation of the NEP gradually changed. New economic policy. The country's economy during the NEPA years. NEP: new strategy or new tactics. The working class of Siberia during the period of restoration of the national economy. NEP in Siberia: lost chances. NEP: gains and losses.

“Culture of the USSR 20-30 years” - Formation of skills to work with additional literature. Ilya Repin. Mass compulsory literacy training. Geneticist N.I. Vavilov. Transition to universal primary education. Outstanding writers. Mandelstam and Akhmatova. Ukrainian hut. Cultural Revolution. Reform of Russian spelling. The method of socialist realism. Spiritual life. Sorokin P.A. Introduction of unified artistic canons. Development of exact and natural sciences.

"NEP Policy" - Years of NEP. War communism. Prodrazverstka. Kronstadt rebellion. Party leadership. Volkhovstroy. Private hands. Proletarian culture. Danger. Chervonets. Changes. Ilyich's light bulb. The crisis of the policy of war communism. New economic policy. Food detachment. Construction of the Kashira power plant. Worker control. The Council of People's Commissars is carrying out a complete nationalization of enterprises. The need for a transition to the NEP.

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POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

AP Galkin

When analyzing the actions of subjects of international relations, activities political parties is mentioned very rarely, relegating it to a peripheral role not only in relation to national governments and intergovernmental organizations, but also in relation to TNCs and broad social movements. Moreover, a number of theorists, emphasizing the declining role of nation states in the structuring of international relations at the present stage and the increasing role of non-state actors (media, non-governmental organizations, etc.), political parties actually do not consider:. Ignoring the activities of political parties as subjects of international relations in modern concepts can only be explained by the fact that this activity itself is ambiguous and multidimensional, that its various aspects are in mutual contradiction and, moreover, are bound by the structural limitations of those subsystems of international life where they unfold. The emerging transition Western societies to the post-industrial phase of development leads to an inevitable transformation of political parties, which significantly complicates the analysis of the activities of the latter due to changes in the generic characteristics of parties (allowing parties to be distinguished from other political associations), which were not always clearly manifested in the international arena.

Political parties were formed in Western countries as self-organizing social systems with the goal of promoting persons with claims to power to elected bodies and (through the latter) to public positions. According to Maurice Duverger, these are parties of parliamentary origin, where winning a seat in political assemblies constitutes the essence of the functioning of the party: “the very reason for its existence and its highest goal

life"2. The parties were cooperations of independent candidates based on genetic connections- community of social origin and its derivatives: similarity of living conditions and social interests. Only with the advent of worker and peasant parties (received names in terms of ideological orientation: social democratic and socialist) do parties acquire features characteristic of an industrial society: a permanently operating organized structure (with a clearly defined differentiation of roles), as well as attributive properties: futurism and mobilization. Two principles dominated the basis of the organizational structure of parties (hence M. Duverger divided them into cadre and mass 3), but in both cases the parties ceased to be associations of persons claiming to have political power and acquired an administrative apparatus (however, in cadre parties the apparatus did not perform as much managerial as coordinating functions). If there were alternative ways for further social development, parties had to present a generally significant project for the future: achieving or maintaining a model of social structure that would provide a comfortable state for certain social groups.

Activities to implement this project include the mobilization of material (excluded from public consumption and accumulation) and intangible (subordination and organization of disparate social forces, development of doctrines and socio-political technologies, etc.) resources, requiring the replacement of the associative union of individuals with a hierarchical one a system that restricts the freedom of political activity of party members. The alternative paths for further development provide for competition not only

than two global projects of the future, providing for a radically different organization of all social life. In the absence of a fundamentally different model of society, which is perceived as realistically achievable, the mobilization of resources becomes very problematic. As rightly noted by V.V. Ilyin and A.S. Panarin, the functions of social representation and global design are absent when there is no politics as a technology for changing group status4. Parties, of course, represent the interests of certain social groups and strata in conditions when the existing organization of social life is the only possible one, but then social groups gain (or lose) little from their activities, and investing resources in parties looks unattractive.

With the disappearance of the “second” world, alternative models of social structure virtually do not exist (with the exception of traditional and religious ones, but due to the harsh influence of social norms on individual behavior, they are not very popular anywhere). Not receiving the necessary resource support from the population, parties are looking for other sources of existence (functionaries are interested in preserving party life), and that’s all higher value has material assistance from competing economic agents, including international ones. At a time when the political organization of international relations is increasingly becoming monocentric, the economic subsystem, although structured from the center to the periphery, has several parallel hierarchies that compete with each other and place bets on certain political forces in different countries. In this area, parties began to seriously compete with traditional lobbying, since, having their representatives in government structures different levels, can ensure consistent implementation of long-term projects. At the same time, international party associations based on the similarity of ideological doctrines still operate.

The founders of inter-party cooperation based on the similarity of ideological doctrines were the European social democratic parties (International), which were later joined by

parties from other continents. Despite the fact that social democracy had a similar social base in different countries, the basis of cooperation in the international arena was no longer genetic ties, but ties of complementarity (sympathies caused by the similarity of ultimate goals and assessments of current events) and solidarity (including mutual assistance) . Genetically, social groups are more attached to their society and territory than to social groups that have a similar position in other societies. It is no coincidence that during the First World War, almost all social democratic parties supported the governments of their countries. In peacetime, parties again began to establish connections with each other within the framework of international inter-party associations.

Among the inter-party associations, the most influential were the associations of leftist forces - the Socialist International and the Communist International. Associations of right-wing parties (for example, the Liberal International) had fewer members, low intensity of inter-party ties and were largely advisory in nature. Relations within inter-party associations were also structured on the basis of ideological postulates and intra-social practices. Thus, the Communist International had a rigid centralized structure headed by the CPSU, whose resolutions regarding the strategy and tactics of the communist movement were to be accepted as unshakable. Otherwise, serious sanctions could follow (for example, the expulsion of the Polish Communist Party from the Comintern on the eve of World War II). Communist parties from developed capitalist countries (especially Italian and French) managed in practice to maintain their autonomy and act in internal political affairs based on the situation, but they could not exert any significant influence on the decisions of the Comintern.

There was no single center of power in the socialist international. Socialist parties of a number stood out there European countries(Germany, France, Sweden, British Labour), which had significantly more influence than the social parties of less developed countries, even when they were not in power in their societies. They could provide

provide serious resource support to their colleagues, strengthening the latter’s competitiveness in the domestic political arena. The coming to power of the socialists after the formal change of regimes in Portugal (1974) and Spain (1977) was largely due to the “humanitarian” assistance of the “fraternal” parties. CPSU, using the resources of the Soviet Union and states of Eastern Europe, also provided support to the Communist parties Western countries and Third World parties that chose the socialist path of development, but demanded political loyalty in return. The socialists did not have a uniform doctrine (the Swedish model was significantly different from the French), a single center of power and did not demand political loyalty in international affairs.

The activities of parties also influenced interstate relations in the system of international relations. Firstly, “the vicissitudes of inter-party conflicts within individual states can lead to the transition of an entire state from one camp to another or from involvement in any of the camps to neutrality”5. Secondly, in addition to material and informational support, parties exerted a certain symbolic influence on the population, which was not always associated with ideological dogmas. Thus, they voted for the socialists in Portugal and Spain, among other things, because they hoped for faster and simplified integration into the system of European relations, since in most European countries at that time socialist parties were in power 6. For material and technical support of the USSR and its allies were counted on by parties proclaiming the socialist path of development. Taken together, this had a significant impact on the configuration of political, economic and cultural ties of the system of international relations.

Right-wing parties did not have such a significant direct influence on the system of international relations, and their inter-party associations were rather associative in nature. Westernized liberal democratic parties owe their emergence and functioning in Third World countries not to the Liberal International, but to TNCs and the local comprador bourgeoisie. Later, some of them began to be supported by the right-

governments of economically developed capitalist countries as a way of competing with the states of the socialist camp. However, in interstate relations, governments led by right-wing parties were not ideologically selective and were guided to a greater extent by national and geostrategic interests. Liberal democratic governments of the West supported authoritarian cliques and their leaders to a greater extent (A. Pinochet in Chile, Said Nuri in Iraq, etc.), since their activities are easier to manage and economically they are cheaper.

The material expression of the institutionalization of inter-party associations was the European Parliament - PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). However, by the time the European Parliament gained the opportunity to influence the state of affairs in Europe, the ideological determinant in the activities of political parties began to fade away. “It is believed that members of the Assembly do not represent governments, but the public of a particular country, and therefore when voting they should be guided not by national, but by party interests”7, in fact, deputies of various factions of the European Parliament in their voting are guided more by the foreign policy line of their countries

The existence of the USSR and its allies gave rise to the possibility of an alternative development of both internal political relations in individual countries and international relations. With the collapse of the socialist camp, as mentioned above, real alternatives virtually disappeared. Such mass movements as environmental and anti-globalization have not yet put forward an alternative project social structure. They fight not for, but against, and this does not make it possible either to mobilize a sufficient amount of resources or to develop a strategic and tactical line of behavior. History shows that all movements that fought against change without putting forward a project alternative path developments (Luddites, suffragettes, anti-war movement, etc.), sooner or later came to naught. It is impossible to stop development; you can direct it along a different path.

At one time, domestic researcher A.B. Zubov noted that in the countries of the East, with the exception of “marginal parties that have ideological overtones, all other parties are actually unions of independent candidates”8. Since a similar phenomenon was observed at one time in Europe, it was interpreted as a cost of growth. However, apparently, the associative structure of the eastern parties was caused by the lack of real alternatives to the paths of internal development. In the foreign policy arena, parties could choose between the first and second worlds or not focus on either of them, but the internal development of eastern states did not provide for a variety of options (with the exception of Islamism): modernization with economic and technological dependence on more developed countries. Ideological labels in the names of Third World parties had a largely symbolic significance, indicating which of the two camps of the world system the party was oriented in foreign policy activities.

This hypothesis is partially confirmed by the direction of reorganization of political parties in Western countries. The parties, as noted by S.N. Pshizov, from cumbersome bureaucratic organizations are once again turning into flexible professional-electoral structures 9. Of course, well-established institutional connections (traditional party orientation of part of the Western population, connections with economic agents providing resource support) and interests (primarily in the preservation of parties as organizations) The party bureaucracy has an inhibitory influence on this process, but is not able to stop it. In parties, temporarily hired specialists (signature collectors, public relations experts, etc.) are beginning to play an increasingly important role, and the party bureaucracy is given the role of concentration and optimal distribution of resources. Even in Sweden (the country where long time identitarian democracy dominates), the Social Democrats began to invite electoral consultants from the United States10, which indicates significant shifts in party life.

The given example regarding the Social Democratic Party highlights another facet of the influence of parties on the system of international

relations: the spatial broadcast of successful patterns of activity began to be accompanied by the involvement of specialists in this activity from other sociocultural systems. In conditions when the coming to power of other political forces does not promise any special changes (and the coming to power of left-wing parties in a number of European countries has not led to any significant changes in either domestic or foreign policy), political activity becomes more personalized and the voter pays attention not so much to party affiliation, but to the personal qualities (more precisely, their presented image) of the persons claiming power. However, the Swedish Social Democrats reflected the interests of the largest social group(quantitatively exceeding all others combined) societies (which they actually formed through their activities) and had significantly greater cultural potential than other political forces. In fact, any project of social order alternative to the SDRP doctrine did not meet the interests of the majority of the population, and in this regard, the Swedish path of development seemed to have no options. Traditional forms of work with the electorate with the concentration of resources in the hands of the party bureaucracy for a long time suited the Swedish political elite, but since the early 90s of the last century, political promotion through modern PR technologies seems more attractive to them. Borrowing successful examples of activity in combination with inviting foreign specialists increasingly makes parties and political elites of various social systems culturally homogeneous, alienating them from the dominant cultures of their societies (with the exception of Western countries), since the rapprochement of the latter proceeds at a much slower pace.

Summarizing the above, it should be noted that the activities of political parties in the international arena unfold mainly in three dimensions, each of which has its own identification within the framework of the cognitive scheme “us - them”. Firstly, this is a political and ideological orientation, where parties define among the subjects of international relations (other parties, movements, national governments, etc.) “unified

Vertsev" based on a common vision of an ideal social order and ways to achieve it. Currently, this aspect is preserved in the form of traditionally developed connections and relationships in institutionalized inter-party associations, but ideological orientation may well be revived if sociocultural and economic determinants are given an ideological coloring (similarity of civilizational and religious attitudes, places in the global division of labor). With the growing cultural gap between the party elite and society, the emergence of counter-elites, culturally closer to their social environment, and their political associations cannot be ruled out. Secondly, the national-state orientation of party leaders, the search for states that could become allies in the international arena within the framework of interstate relations. Essentially, here we are talking about the country’s position in a monocentric hierarchy political life international community, the degree of influence on world politics. Each party has its own ideas about potential allies and competitors, and the difference in ideological attitudes between the ideology of the party and the government of a potential ally can be ignored in favor of geopolitical and macroeconomic strategies. Thirdly, the rise in the cost of election campaigns encourages parties to look for “sponsors” among economic actors in international relations: TNCs, interbank associations, or even simply foreign companies (in most countries the latter is prohibited, but financial flows are difficult to control). The economic and financial orientation of parties on a global scale and the corresponding economic identity (the attachment of certain parties to certain economic agents) begins to take shape, which may not coincide with the political one (the government may provide material assistance to one party, and business to a completely different one).

Thus, in the conditions of global integration of the world community with a unipolar political hierarchy of the party

different countries, on the one hand, become more culturally homogeneous (similar to each other), and on the other, losing structure-forming features (a certain social base, ideology), they acquire more and more nominal differences. It is no coincidence that the trend towards a two-party system in a number of countries (Germany, Canada, etc.) has changed to the exact opposite.

If earlier parties in the international arena integrated various countries into blocs, differentiating the latter on political grounds, then at the present stage of development of international relations, parties, differentiating subjects of international life on a number of grounds, contribute to the unity and integration of a monocentric political organization world community. The latter does not always come from the subjective desire of the parties themselves, but is caused by the need to be competitive in the domestic political arena, which involves the reproduction of certain types of activities that objectively contribute to the growth of the above trends.

NOTES

1 See: Kosolapov N.A. The phenomenon of international relations: current state object of research // World economy and international relations. M., 1998. No. 5. P. 107; International relationships: sociological approaches. M., 1998. P. 39.

2 Duverger M. Les partis politiques. Paris, 1976.

4Ilyin V.V., Panarin A.A. Philosophy of politics. M., 1994. P. 229.

5 Aron R. Peace and war between nations. M., 2000. P. 345.

6 Social reforms and workers. M., 1986. P. 296.

7 Rybkin I.P. We are doomed to agree: Speeches, articles, interviews. M., 1994. P. 349.

8 Zubov A.B. Parliamentary democracy and the political tradition of the East. M., 1990. P. 224.

9 Pshizova S.N. Financing the political market: theoretical aspects of practical problems // Polis: polit. research M., 2002. No. 1. P. 23.

In the middle of the 19th century. As a result of the emergence of hired workers, a new large proletarian class was formed. Initially, the labor movement was local in nature. Activists from among the workers organized small circles, among which Marxist ideology began to spread, calling for the creation of a new society in which there would be no exploitation.

The efforts of the communists, whose theories were based on the teachings of K. Marx and F. Engels, were aimed at uniting the working class throughout the world and using this powerful political force to fight the bourgeoisie and imperialism. Communists stood for national freedom and against racial hatred.

Workers and peasants in different countries of the world were in the same situation and experienced oppression and oppression from the bourgeoisie, so they supported the ideas of communism and began to create communist parties everywhere. Almost every country and every continent had its own communist parties at that time.

The Communist Party acted as a force that was capable of preparing and implementing revolutionary transformations of society on the basis of planned collectivism. Communist parties were of particular importance in colonial and dependent countries; they were able to unite the people in the struggle for their national independence.

In 1918, communist parties emerged in Germany, Poland, Finland, Austria, Hungary and the Netherlands. Social democratic parties in Bulgaria, Argentina, Sweden and Greece shared the ideas of the communists and actively supported them. At the same time, communist groups and circles formed in Italy, Czechoslovakia, France, Romania, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland, Denmark, Switzerland, the USA, Canada, China, Korea, Brazil, Australia, the Union of South Africa and other countries of the world.

In January 1919, on the initiative of V.I. Lenin held a meeting of leaders communist parties and parties sharing the ideas of communism, at which it was decided to convene an international congress. Thus, with the participation of representatives of revolutionary proletarian parties in Europe, America, Asia and Australia, the Communist International was created, which united the labor movement throughout the world.

Thanks to the efforts of the communist parties, Soviet states arose in 1919 in Hungary, Bavaria, and Slovakia. In the USA, France, Great Britain and Italy, it was possible to organize a movement in defense of Soviet Russia from the intervention of imperialist powers. In the colonial and semi-colonial countries of China, Korea, India, Turkey and Afghanistan, a massive national liberation movement grew. The number of communist parties joining the Communist International grew every year.

Subsequently, in the face of the growing threat of fascism, the Comintern was able to unite communists from different countries into a united workers' front to fight the German and Japanese invaders. The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks was at the forefront of the anti-fascist movement; its leading role in the fight against the aggressor was recognized in all countries.

IN largest cities Around the world, communist parties held mass rallies, demonstrations, meetings and conferences, at which a decision was made on the active participation of workers in the struggle against the fascist invaders. Only through joint efforts and often in conditions of severe persecution was it possible to defeat the enemy. But even after the war, communication between communist parties from different countries continued and had a positive impact on strengthening friendly relations between the peoples of the world.

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International Communist Party (MCP, English Parti Communiste Internationaliste , PCI) - the name of several Trotskyist historical organizations operating in France in the 1930s-1960s, most notably the French section of the Fourth International in 1944-1969.

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1930s

In France, an organization called the International Communist Party was first created in March 1936 by Raymond Molyneux and Pierre Franck. In June of the same year, the party merged with two other Trotskyist organizations to form the International Workers' Party. However, since October 1936 it has again operated as an independent organization. The party was not part of the Fourth International due to a number of disagreements with Leon Trotsky and the leadership of the international. She published the newspaper “La Commune” and the magazine “La Vérité” (“Truth”). It ceased to exist in the early 1940s.

Post-war period: 1944-1952

In 1944, through the merger of several Trotskyist groups - the International Workers' Party (IWP), the Committee of Communist Internationalists (KKI) and the October group - an organization was again created under the name of the International Communist Party. Preparations for unification were carried out on the initiative of the European Secretariat of the Fourth International, which began work in 1942. In December 1943, a meeting was held between representatives of the MCI, the CCI and the European Secretariat. In February - March 1944, the unification process was completed. According to the instructions of the conference of the European Secretariat, the Central Committee of the ITUC was formed, consisting of three representatives from the MCI, two from the CCI, one from the October group and Michel Pablo from the European Secretariat. The party published the newspaper "La Veritè" ( Is it true), which received legal status in 1945.

The first congress of the ITUC took place in December 1944. The congress adopted a plan of action that included the following issues: “a reconstruction plan drawn up by the General Confederation of Labor, implemented under the control of workers' committees and nationalization without compensation; the government of the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the CGT; arming the people, workers' militia; international unity of action of workers."

A trade union commission operated within the framework of the ITUC. Party members actively participated in the first post-war strikes of 1945-1947. During the split of the General Confederation of Labor in 1947 and the creation of the CGT - "Labor Force" ( Force Ouvriere) The ITUC advocated the reunification of the confederation and published the newspaper "Unité syndicale".

In the first post-war years, the MCP took part in various elections. For example, in 1945, the party's candidates participated in the elections to the Legislative Assembly in Paris and the Isère department, receiving a combined 10,817 votes. The party also participated in the general elections on June 1, 1946. It fielded 79 candidates in 11 different regions, receiving a total of 44,906 votes.

This period in the history of the party was marked by the formation of various factions within it. The “right” faction, to which Ivan Kraipo belonged, focused on working among activists of traditional left parties, in particular among the “Young Socialists,” the youth wing of the Socialist Party. In January 1946, the second congress of the ITUC was held. At it, Ivan Kraipo called for the creation of a revolutionary party “by combining the progressive tendencies that are developing in the PCF and the Socialist Party.” However, this proposal was rejected by a majority vote.

The third congress took place in September 1946. At the third congress a post was introduced Secretary General MKP, which was occupied by Ivan Kraipo. At the Fourth Congress in November 1947, the “right” was severely criticized. At the same time, in 1947, representatives of the “right faction” established contacts with French intellectuals, David Rousset, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. They united in creating the Association of Democratic Revolutionaries ( Rassemblement Démocratique Révolutionnaire listen)) - a left-wing anti-Stalinist party that adhered to the principles of democratic socialism. This, however, led to the expulsion of Kraipo and his supporters from the party in 1948. This decision was confirmed at the 5th Party Congress in early 1948. New general secretary MCP became Pierre Frank.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the ITUC actively spoke out regarding world events. In particular, against French attempts to restore its influence in Indochina and Algeria. In addition, French Trotskyists responded to the break between Stalin and Tito in 1948. For some time they developed relations with the Yugoslav regime and its embassy in Paris. In the summer of 1950, they organized a French Youth Working Group to be sent to Yugoslavia to assist on a number of projects. The Association of Brigades in Yugoslavia was organized, which also published the brochure "La Brigade".

From the split to 1968

In 1952, the party experienced a split, which took shape organizationally in 1953 after the split of the Fourth International. The reason for the split was the tactics adopted by the Fourth International at the Third World Congress in 1951. In accordance with this tactic, Trotskyists had to join mass communist and social democratic parties. This tactic was known as entryism sui generis.

Cover of the newspaper Quatrième internationale June 1968

The French Trotskyists failed in their entry into the Communist Party. However, at the end of the 1950s, a split occurred in the SFIO, as a result of which the Autonomous Socialist Party was formed, which later transformed into the United Socialist Party (USP). Members of the ITUC decided to join the OSP. One of these activists was Rudolf Prager. He was elected to the Central Committee OSP, although he did not hide his affiliation with the Trotskyist movement. He remained a member of the OSP until the 1969 presidential election campaign, when he publicly supported the Communist League candidate Alain Krivin over the OSP candidate Michel Rocard.

In addition, the ITUC had influence in the Union of Communist Students (UCS), whose head was Alain Krivin in the early 1960s. Under the leadership of Krivin, the University Anti-Fascist Front was created ( Front Universitaire Antifasciste), whose task is to fight OAS supporters in the Latin Quarter of Paris and elsewhere. In 1965, at the SKS congress, supporters of Alain Krivin, who were the left wing of the SKS, began to fight for the “right to form trends” and the “consistent de-Stalinization of the PCF.” The following year, 1966, they were all expelled from the Communist Party and created the organization “Revolutionary Communist Youth” (RCM), which played an important role in the May 1968 events. Pierre Frank welcomed the creation of the RCM and provided the organization with full support.

The ITUC also actively participated in the May events. The MCP condemned the attempts of the official Communist Party to weaken the uprising. Its publications condemned the negotiations between the PCF and the CGT to end the general strike that was shaking France at the time, and called for the unity of workers and students, the overthrow of the de Gaulle government and the creation of a workers' government. After the end of the events of May - June 1968, both organizations were banned - both the RKM and the MKP. In 1969, they united into the Communist League, then better known as the Revolutionary Communist League.

Organization

General Secretaries of the ITUC

  • 1946-1948 - Ivan Kraipo;
  • 1948-1969 - Pierre Frank.

ITUC Congresses

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Literature

  • Robert J. Alexander. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. - Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.
  • A. L. Semenov. Left student movement in France. - M.: “Science”, 1975.

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Predecessor:
International Labor Party
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1944-1969
Successor:
Communist League

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– Don’t worry, I’ll teach you how to do it! – as if reading my sad thoughts, Stella said cheerfully.
- What to do? - I did not understand.
- Well, so you can stay with me longer. – Surprised by my question, the little girl answered. “You’re alive, that’s why it’s difficult for you.” And I'll teach you. Do you want to take a walk where “others” live? And Harold will wait for us here. – The girl asked, wrinkling her small nose slyly.
- Right now? – I asked very uncertainly.
She nodded... and we suddenly “fell through” somewhere, “leaked” through “stardust” shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, and found ourselves in another, completely different from the previous, “transparent” world...
* * *

Oh, angels!!! Look, mommy, Angels! – a thin voice suddenly squeaked nearby.
I still couldn’t recover from the unusual “flight,” but Stella was already sweetly chirping something to the little round girl.
“And if you are not angels, then why do you sparkle so much?..” the little girl asked, sincerely surprised, and then again squealed enthusiastically: “Oh, ma-a-mama!” How beautiful he is!..
It was only then that we noticed that Stella’s last “work” had also “failed” with us – her funniest red “dragon”...

Svetlana at 10 years old

– Is...what is this? – the little girl asked with a breath. – Can I play with him?.. He won’t be offended?
Mom apparently mentally reprimanded her sternly, because the girl suddenly became very upset. Tears welled up in her warm brown eyes and it was clear that just a little more and they would flow like a river.
- Just don't cry! – Stella quickly asked. – Do you want me to make you the same?
The girl’s face instantly lit up. She grabbed her mother’s hand and squealed happily:
– Do you hear, mommy, I didn’t do anything wrong and they’re not angry with me at all! Can I have one like that too?.. I’ll really be very good! I really, really promise you!
Mom looked at her with sad eyes, trying to decide how best to answer. And the girl suddenly asked:
– Have you seen my dad, good glowing girls? He and my brother disappeared somewhere...
Stella looked at me questioningly. And I already knew in advance what she would offer now...
- Do you want us to look for them? – as I thought, she asked.
– We have already looked, we have been here for a long time. But there are none. “The woman answered very calmly.
“We’ll look differently,” Stella smiled. “Just think about them so we can see them, and we will find them.”
The girl closed her eyes funny, apparently trying very hard to mentally create a picture of her dad. A few seconds passed...
“Mommy, how can it be that I don’t remember him?” the little girl was surprised.
I heard this for the first time and from the surprise in Stella’s big eyes I realized that this was also something completely new for her...
- How come you don’t remember? – the mother did not understand.
- Well, I look and look and don’t remember... How can it be, I love him very much? Maybe he really is no more?..
- Excuse me, but can you see him? – I asked my mother carefully.
The woman nodded confidently, but suddenly something in her face changed and it was clear that she was very confused.
- No... I can’t remember him... Is this really possible? – she said almost in fear.
- And your son? Can you remember? Or brother? Can you remember your brother? – Stella asked, addressing both of them at once.
Mother and daughter shook their heads.
Usually so cheerful, Stella’s face looked very worried, she probably couldn’t understand what was going on here. I literally felt the intense work of her living and such an unusual brain.
- I came up with it! I came up with an idea! – Stella suddenly squealed happily. – We will “put on” your images and go for a “walk”. If they are somewhere, they will see us. It's true?
I liked the idea, and all that remained was to mentally “change clothes” and go on a search.
- Oh, please, can I stay with him until you return? – the little girl stubbornly did not forget her desire. - And what is his name?
“Not yet,” Stella smiled at her. - and you?
- Leah. - The little girl answered. – Why do you still glow? We saw these once, but everyone said that they were angels... And who are you then?
“We are girls like you, but we live “upstairs.”
– Where is the top? – little Leah did not let up.
“Unfortunately, you can’t go there,” Stella, who was in difficulty, tried to somehow explain. - Do you want me to show you?
The little girl jumped for joy. Stella took her hand and opened her stunning fantasy world to her, where everything seemed so bright and happy that she didn’t want to believe it.
Leah’s eyes looked like two huge round saucers:
– Oh, what a beauty!....Is this heaven? Oh ma-mom!.. – the little girl squeaked enthusiastically, but very quietly, as if afraid of frightening off this incredible vision. -Who lives there? Oh, look, what a cloud!.. And golden rain! Does this really happen?..
-Have you ever seen a red dragon? – Leah shook her head negatively. - Well, you see, but it happens to me, because this is my world.
- And then what are you - God??? “But God can’t be a girl, can he?” And then, who are you?..
Questions poured out of her like an avalanche and Stella, not having time to answer them, laughed.
Not busy with “questions and answers,” I began to slowly look around and was completely amazed by the extraordinary world that was opening up to me... It was truly a real “transparent” world. Everything around sparkled and shimmered with some kind of blue, ghostly light, from which (as it should have been) for some reason it did not become cold, but on the contrary - it warmed me with some unusually deep, soul-piercing warmth. From time to time, transparent human figures floated around me, now condensing, now becoming transparent, like a luminous fog... This world was very beautiful, but somehow impermanent. It seemed that he was changing all the time, not knowing exactly how he would remain forever...
- Well, are you ready to take a walk? – Stella’s cheerful voice pulled me out of my dreams.
-Where should we go? – Having woken up, I asked.
- Let's go look for the missing! – the little girl smiled cheerfully.
- Dear girls, will you still allow me to watch over your little dragon while you walk? – not wanting to forget him for anything, little Leah asked, lowering her round eyes.
- Okay, take care. – Stella graciously allowed. “Just don’t give it to anyone, otherwise he’s still a baby and might get scared.”
- Oh, wow, how can you!.. I will love him very much until you return...
The girl was ready to go out of her way to flattery, just to get her incredible “miracle dragon”, and this “miracle” puffed and puffed, apparently trying his best to please, as if she felt that it was about him...
– When will you come again? Will you come very soon, dear girls? – Secretly dreaming that we will not come very soon, the little girl asked.
Stella and I were separated from them by a shimmering transparent wall...
-Where do we start? – the seriously concerned girl asked seriously. – I’ve never seen anything like this, but I haven’t been here that long... Now we have to do something, right?.. We promised!
– Well, let’s try to “put on” their images, as you suggested? – without thinking for a long time, I said.
Stella quietly “conjured” something, and a second later she looked like plump Leah, and I, naturally, got Mom, which made me laugh a lot... And we put on ourselves, as I understood, just energy images, with the help whom we hoped to find the missing people we needed.
– This is the positive side of using other people’s images. And there is also a negative one - when someone uses it for bad purposes, like the entity that put on my grandmother’s “key” so that it could beat me. Grandma explained all this to me...
It was funny to hear how this tiny girl expressed such serious truths in a professorial voice... But she really took everything very seriously, despite her sunny, happy character.
- Well, let’s go, “girl Leah”? – I asked with great impatience.
I really wanted to see these other “floors” while I still had the strength to do so. I had already noticed what a big difference there was between this one we were on now and the “upper”, Stella’s “floor”. Therefore, it was very interesting to quickly “plunge” into another unfamiliar world and learn about it, if possible, as much as possible, because I was not at all sure whether I would ever return here again.