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  Communist League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The League was not able to function effectively during the 1848 revolution, despite temporarily abandoning its clandestine nature.
The Communist League reassembled in late 1849, and by 1850 were publishing the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Revue journal, but by the end of the year, publication had ceased amid disputes between the leading members of the group.
The Communist League, 1847 - 1850, documents of the league on Marxists.org.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_League   (319 words)

  
 Young Communist League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Young Communist League was or is the name used by the youth wing of various Communist parties around the world.
In the Soviet Union the YCL was known as the Komsomol.
The corresponding youth organization in China is usually translated as Communist Youth League.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Young_Communist_League   (108 words)

  
 Communist League of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist League of America (Left Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism.
The CLA (LO) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as not a rival party to the CPUSA but as a faction of it and the Comintern.
As the CPUSA and the Comintern became increasingly Stalinized the tactic of acting as an external faction of the Communist Party was replaced with plans to create the Fourth International as a new revolutionary international to replace the Third International and to replace the Communist Party with a new mass workers party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_League_of_America   (316 words)

  
 The methodology of the Communist League
This is the Communist League's 'method' of argumentation and it has nothing in common with the critical dialectical approach demanded by Marxism.
Communist League literature is always instantly recognisable in that it is nothing more than a series of quotations, actually often misquotes or chopped quotes, strung together.
The Communist League's mode of argumentation is identical to that of the scholar of the Koran who answers every criticism by quoting the Koran.
freespace.virgin.net /pep.talk/PuntRep.htm   (3178 words)

  
 Glossary of Organisations: Co
In 1919 the Communist International (Comintern) was founded, and as a precondition for membership all national sections of the Comintern (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain, etc.) had to change their name to "Communist," thus moving forward towards distinguishing themselves from the crumbling Social Democracy (and the Second International) of the past.
The Communist International degenerated after the Fourth Congress when in November 1922, Stalin came to power in the Soviet Union and the Comintern was disbanded in 1943 by Stalin, as a gesture of conciliation with the Allied powers.
The first draft of the Communist League Programme was styled as a catechism in the form of questions and answers.
www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/c/o.htm   (3798 words)

  
 The Militant - August 12, 2002 -- Communist League founded in Iceland
In his report to the founding convention Ögmundur Jónsson said the central task of the new Communist League is to establish a regular, weekly rhythm of activity connected to the resistance of working people.
Among the questions discussed at the founding convention was the communist approach to the work of the organization Iceland-Palestine, which is mobilizing young people to travel to Palestine to act as human shields and to provide moral witness to the struggle of the Palestinian people.
During these events members of the Communist League who work in the fishing industry, in which a big component of the workers are immigrants, learned that Chinese co-workers and others were taking off work in order to greet the Chinese president, standing along the route of his vehicle to bid him welcome.
www.themilitant.com /2002/6630/663050.html   (1823 words)

  
 V
The Communist League complained to the IS, that the December 1933 split flouted majority rule.
Groves joined the National Council of the League as representative for its London Region in September and was to be for once in a position to mount an effective rather than a propaganda opposition to the communist version of a unity pact.
This was a significant achievement in the London-centred League.
www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /Upham/05Upham.html   (8459 words)

  
 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Chapter 4
The central committee of the Communist League was not elected by the convention.
The Manifesto declares that the communists do not constitute a separate party in contradistinction to other workingmen's parties They are merely the vanguard of the workers, and their advantage over the remaining mass of the proletariat is in their understanding of the conditions, direction, and general results of the labour movement.
Yet the communists never cease instilling into the minds of the workers an ever-keener consciousness of the truth that the interests of the bourgeoisie are diametrically opposed to those of the proletariat.
www.workers.org /ww/1997/ch04.html   (5926 words)

  
 The Militant - 8/2/99 -- Communist League Holds Congress In United Kingdom
Fraternal delegates from the Communist League in Canada and Sweden, as well as the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, were seated, as was a representative of supporters of the communist movement in Iceland.
Prior to the congress, members of the Communist League had centered their discussions on "A sea change in working-class politics," the opening chapter of the new Pathfinder title Capitalism's World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, as well as the preface to that book.
Among the participants at the forum were nearly a dozen supporters of the communist movement who, in response to the openings discussed at the congress, have over recent months extended the time they have contributed to different tasks.
www.themilitant.com /1999/6327/6327_12.html   (1806 words)

  
 Rules of the Communist League
The aim of the League is the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the rule of the proletariat, the abolition of the old bourgeois society which rests on the antagonism of classes, and the foundation of a new society without classes and without private property.
The division of the circles of the League into provinces and the appointment of the leading circle is effected by the Congress on the proposal of the Central Authority.
Every League authority is obliged to take the measures in accordance with the Rules necessary for the security and efficient work of the League under its responsibility and to notify the superior authority at once of these measures.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/rules.htm   (1129 words)

  
 China - Communist Youth League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Except for its top-ranking officials, the league's members, from fifteen to twenty-five years of age, were indoctrinated, trained, and prepared to serve as future party regulars.
The Communist Youth League's eleventh congress, held in December 1982, was attended by about 2,000 delegates.
The Communist Youth League was responsible also for guiding the activities of the Young Pioneers (for children below the age of fifteen).
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2855.html   (181 words)

  
 Young Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It aims to build support among young people for the Communist Party’s programme, Britain's Road to Socialism and to increase young people’s involvement in politics.The Young Communist League is organisationally autonomous and decides its own activities and priorities.
The League also recognises the importance of trade unions as the broadest mass organisations of the working class and fights all anti-trade union laws.
This does not mean that the League calls for an armed uprising in modern Britain, although we defend the right of the oppressed to take up arms for their liberation.
www.avam14.dsl.pipex.com /standfor.shtml   (561 words)

  
 Young Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It is the parent organisation of the Young Communist League.
The Communist Party of Vietnam is Vietnam's ruling party and was behind the liberation of the country and winning the Vietnam War.
The South African Communist Party was instrumental in the downfall of apartheid and continues to be an important government partner.
www.avam14.dsl.pipex.com /links.shtml   (344 words)

  
 The Communist League
Article 1 of the Rules of the Communist League: "The aim of the league is the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the rule of the proletariat, the abolition of the old bourgeois society which rests on the antagonism of classes, and the foundation of a new society without classes and without private property."
The first draft of the Communist League Programme was styled as a catechism -- in the form of questions and answers.
The League's official paper was to be the Kommunistische Zeitschrift, but the only issue produced was in September 1847 by a resolution of the League's First Congress.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league   (585 words)

  
 Theses of the Communist League of Struggle
The Communist Party (under some circumstances and with a Leninist policy) could have been the decisive force both in stimulating the exploited and oppressed masses with the understanding of the impossibility of living in the old way and in helping to make the ruling class unable to govern as of old.
The proletariat and Communists in the U.S.A. have a particularly grave responsibility.
The main task of the Communists must be the smashing of all caste and religious barriers and the stimulation of movements of the masses around the "Three 'Pillars" and freedom slogans.
www.weisbord.org /Theses.htm   (20458 words)

  
 3.7. Korean Youth Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I, a communist, became its honorary chairman and we maintained friendly relations with Korean nationalists and the local authorities.
On August 28, 1927, we formally established the League at the basement of Yakwang Temple.
The new organization was an underground association of young Korean communists and it primary mission was to lead and organize Koreans for revolution and independence; it was a vanguard for mass revolutionary movement.
www.kimsoft.com /war/r-3-7.htm   (2649 words)

  
 Communist League Bibliography
An open letter sent on behalf of the Communist League to the 'New Communist Party' (the origins of revisionism in the Soviet Union).
Class analysis in the modern communist movement (Presented to the international conference organised by the International Centre for the Development of Contemporary Communist Doctrine, Moscow, November 8 - 10th, 1996)
Joint press statement of the Communist Party of Albania (Reconstructed) and the New Party of Labour of Albania; editorial correction - re Mikhail Riumin.
website.lineone.net /~comleague/intercom/compbib.html   (815 words)

  
 Communist League - Action Platform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For communists, the road to the workers’ republic — the first step on the road to the classless, communist society — is paved through the struggle for revolutionary democratic change.
Even though we communists see the need for a farther reaching and comprehensive platform to address all the objective needs and desires of the working class, we also understand that it is necessary to prioritize certain demands that speak directly to the crisis facing working people in the U.S. today.
We communists must clearly state that the second republic is dead and can no sooner be resurrected as can their dead grandparents.
www.communistleague.org /platform.html   (2235 words)

  
 Scoop: Communist League announces candidates
The Communist League will be campaigning in the 2005 general election to present a working-class alternative to Labour, National, and the other parties of capitalism that defend the interests of the ruling rich.
The socialist campaign will explain the need to build a revolutionary movement that will lead a fight by working people and their allies to take power out of the hands of the billionaire ruling class and establish a workers and farmers government, and join the worldwide struggle for socialism.
A meeting to launch the Communist League election campaign in Auckland will be held at the Militant Labour Forum, 7 Mason Ave, Otahuhu, at 7pm, this Saturday, August 13.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0508/S00146.htm   (686 words)

  
 Young Communist League
The Young Communist League is currently in the process of being reformed, with new branches having been formed in north and south Wales.
The Young Communist League is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain and member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY).
The YCL seeks to become the communist wing of a wider youth movement.
www.welshcommunists.co.uk /ycl.htm   (617 words)

  
 The Idealist in the Young Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I had already learned that a Communist was not what I had previously been led to believe him to be: a man with a fl beard, dressed in a long fl overcoat hanging to the ground, and holding a bomb that looked like a fl bowling ball.
According to Morris L. Ernst and David Loth in their Report on the American Communist, some who were lonely, or who lacked love from their own family, found that the YCL gave them a sense of belonging, an illusion of popularity that marked the high point in their lives.
According to Ernst and Loth in Report on the American Communist, most of the young Communists were "earnest, hardworking, studious youths, generally passionate for justice." They joined in their teens, lured by the utopian idealism of Marxism, and betrayed by the evils of Stalinism.
www.libertyhaven.com /theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/libertarianism/idealist.html   (3007 words)

  
 Young Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In a time when young people are characterized as mindless, nihilistic slackers, a new generation of revolutionaries is leading the fight against racism, sexism, and unemployment.
The Young Communist League (YCL) is an organization of women and men, Black, Brown and white, dedicated to fighting capitalism - the system in which the majority go without and wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, and to replace it with socialism - where the wealth is held in common.
Recently the YCL participated in the 26th National Convention of the Communist Party in Cleveland, Ohio.
www.pww.org /archives96/96-06-01-3.html   (362 words)

  
 Liga Chilena Anti-Comunista   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Chilean Anti-Communist League is an organization dedicated to exposing and opposing the real threat of Communism not only in Chile, but worldwide.
Communists usually claim they are good, and that they want world peace, which is just lies to deceive people, because they do just the opposite.
Communist dictators and fellow Party Members are usually the only people well off,in most cases living like Czars or the worst "burgeouis" they criticize so much.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Congress/1770/English.html   (2131 words)

  
 The World Anti-Communist League:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Now the book "Inside the League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagan's White House.
Singlaub boasts WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task supported explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and glowing letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years.
WACL is more than a club for aging facists and their modern-day hero- worshipers, it serves as the primary coordinating body through which anti- communist groups meet and debate and implement strategies to prop up anti- Communist authoritarian regimes and defeat popular movements for social and political liberation around the world.
www.holysmoke.org /wb/wb0312.htm   (807 words)

  
 International Trotskyism - China: The Communist League
The conference established the Communist League of China and adopted Trotsky’s document “The Political Situation in China and the Task of the Bolshevik-Leninist Opposition” as its “programmatic base.” It also elected a Central Committee, with Ch’en Tu-hsiu as its secretary general.
Liu Renjing, although not joining the Communist League, continued to consider and proclaim himself a Trotskyist and was to play a subsequent role in the history of Chinese Trotskyism [48].
The Communist League also began publishing an “open” periodical, Warm Tide, which was said to have “gained wide influence among general readers, including members of the Chinese Communist Party.” This influence was the result of increasing disillusionment of CCP members with the policies of the party’s Stalinist leadership [52].
www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/china2.htm   (8985 words)

  
 Communist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For decades controversy over the role played by the Communist League in the revolution of 1848-49, questioned whether the league was the most clear-sighted and decisive force, wheather it influenced the extreme left wing, or whether it was completely drowned in the general democratic movement.
Just as the preparations for the revolution had largely dominated the League's activities since its foundation and the 1848 revolution had marked the highlight of its history, the evaluation of theory was important from the revoluton to about 1852.
Within the League, there were factional disputes and discussions of questions like the preconditions for revolutions and the relationship between bourgeois and proletarian revolution.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/COMLEAG.HTM   (745 words)

  
 Communist League of America
Bureaucratism is alien to the proletarian Communist movement.
On this, as well as on the other principled questions, the fight of the proletarian Communist elements in all parties unites with the Bolshevik fight of the Russian Opposition under the leadership of Trotsky.
At the Fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Stalin issued a warning against the course he later adopted, and predicted its disruptive consequences.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcommunistleague.htm   (1610 words)

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