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	France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1328, Philip VI (1328–50), of the house of Valois, a younger branch of the Capetians, succeeded to the throne.
		In the immediate postwar years the Communists, notably Maurice Thorez, a major figure in the PCF and a fixture in government throughout the Fourth Republic and into the Fifth, the moderate Mouvement Républicain Populaire, founded by Georges Bidault, and the Socialists were the strongest of the many political parties; the pattern of short-lived coalitions reappeared.
		France was beset by a host of problems in 1995, including severe floods and terror bombings; the government faced international criticism for its nuclear testing in the South Pacific, which it resumed after a three-year moratorium; and the country was paralyzed late in the year by a long transportation workers strike.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/France.html (6467 words)

	Karl Marx - MSN Encarta
		In 1847 these committees were consolidated to form the Communist League, and Marx and Engels were commissioned to formulate a statement of principles.
		The program they submitted, known throughout the world as the Communist Manifesto, was the first systematic statement of modern socialist doctrine and was written by Marx, partly on the basis of a draft prepared by Engels.
		When the Communist League dissolved in 1852, Marx continued to correspond with hundreds of revolutionists with the aim of forming another revolutionary organization.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761555305 (915 words)

	WALES CPB CYMRU
		Prifysgol Gomiwnyddol Cymru 2004 Communist University of Wales 2004
		The Communist Party recognised that, in popularising the achievements of socialism and in combating anti-Soviet hysteria, it had in some cases tried to defend the indefensible.
		Membership of the Communist Party is open to all people aged 16 and above, who accept the aims, rules and policy of the Party, pay their dues regularly and work in a Party organisation.
	welshcommunists.co.uk (2791 words)

	On the History of the Communist League, 1836-1852 - Engels \| libcom.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This Association served the League as a recruiting ground for new members, and since, as always, the Communists were the most active and intelligent members of the Association, it was a matter of course that its leadership lay entirely in the hands of the League.
		Our relations with the League of the Just were as follows: The existence of the League was, of course, known to us; in 1843 Schapper had suggested that I join it, which I at that time naturally refused to do.
		Three-quarters of the League members who had previously lived abroad had changed their domicile by returning to their homeland; their previous communities were thus to a great extent dissolved and they lost all contact with the League.
	libcom.org /library/history-communist-league (5829 words)

	Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League by Marx and Engels
		The League further proved itself in that its understanding of the movement, as expressed in the circulars issued by the Congresses and the Central Committee of 1847 and in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, has been shown to be the only correct one, and the expectations expressed in these documents have been completely fulfilled.
		The relationship of the revolutionary workers' party to the petty-bourgeois democrats is this: it cooperates with them against the party which they aim to overthrow; it opposes them wherever they wish to secure their own position.
		As in France in 1793, it is the task of the genuinely revolutionary party in Germany to carry through the strictest centralization.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm (2675 words)

	The League of Nations and the Communist International
		France, in her turn, is ready to sacrifice the safety of the British naval routes-for the support of Italy.
		The League in its defense of the status quo is not an organization of "peace", but an organization of the violence of the imperialist minority over the overwhelming majority of mankind.
		To build the revolutionary policy of the proletariat on a program of disarmament means to build it not on sand, but on the smoke screen of militarism.
	www.marxist.com /Theory/league_of_nations_trotsky.html (3099 words)

	Defend the uprising of the youth of France : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The violence of the insurrection of French youth does not have, it is true, the character of revolutionary violence against the capitalist State, or the level of a class struggle of the proletariat against capital.
		We support the partial initiatives of the rank-and-file organizations of the left and of some of their leaders (the LCR) towards demonstrating in defense of the youth and for the resignation of Sarkozy, with the slogan Down with the ‘Chiracaille’, general strike, and for all the demands of the workers in struggle to be met.
		The generalized uprising of the dispossessed youth of France lays bare the insurmountable limitations of this political solution and its irreconcilable antagonism with the tendency towards misery and social desperation of the European masses as a whole.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1722040 (1344 words)

	The Communist Manifesto: Insights and Problems
		From an examination of this work on its own terms, what emerges is that it is not a "text" intended to be served up for academic deconstruction and convoluted exegesis but rather the manifesto of a party that challenged the existence of capitalist social relations and their underlying class base.
		And it placed upon every subsequent revolutionary movement the obligation to make the oppressed conscious of their status--that is to say, to inculcate among the exploited a deep sense of class consciousness and to urge them to abolish class society as such.
		For a communist movement to fall short of this goal, as Marx and Engels understood, would be, not to "approximate" it or to "realistically" modify it, but to abandon it altogether.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/comman.html (3563 words)

	Communist League: WR No. 3 — Summer 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the day of the vote, communists should have held protests and rallies in front of polling places, calling on their working-class brothers and sisters to stand with them against both the reactionary federalists and the reactionary nationalists (and their reactionary socialist allies).
		This is why the state — specifically the revolutionary dismantling of the old state and the establishment of a new one, based on the classes of exploited and oppressed peoples — is central to the theory of socialist transformation of society.
		The Communist League, a working people’s political organization fighting for a victorious proletarian revolution, the overthrow of the racist and exploitative capitalist system, and the establishment of a working people’s republic, is committed to helping African American workers and poor in any way they can to achieve their own liberation.
	www.communistleague.org /page.php?49 (13499 words)

	Article on LCR-LO front (Prensa Obrera, 17/ 12/ 98)
		As much by its program as by its political objectives, the agreement is in consonance with the politics of the majority of the League, favourable to abandoning all reference to communism and regrouping the whole of the left under a democratic banner.
		Rouge, the newspaper of the League, announced its adhesion to an international campaign in favour of a tax on the speculative movement of capital, popularly known as the Tobin tax, after its author, a Nobel Prize winner for economy.
		But as much in France as in Argentina this form of reasoning denounces the groups that have failed politically; that have lost their tradition; that could not vindicate program or trajectory; and that want all the others to begin again starting from the mediocre level to which they have fallen.
	home.igc.org /~itobr/idm4/altlcr-lo.html (1645 words)

	Communist League: The Worker [Communist] No. 6 — August 12, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Communist League is already beginning to work with brothers and sisters in the Middle East to bring about that organizing and movement.
		For communists, the use of the best technology in the automobiles, combined with the elimination of the “mood of the market” from oil and gas prices (and the immediate halving of prices themselves), would be the most efficient thing to do.
		On July 30, 2006, revolutionary workers from throughout the southern and central regions of Uganda met in the city of Kabale, along the Rwandan border, and launched the Communist League Uganda.
	www.communistleague.org /page.php?93 (3492 words)

	TEMPLE OF KARL MARX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Communist Manifesto In 1845 Marx was ordered to leave Paris because of his revolutionary activities.
		Later Years When the Communist League dissolved in 1852, Marx continued to correspond with hundreds of revolutionists with the aim of forming another revolutionary organization.
		Of decisive importance with respect to revolutionary action are his theories on the nature of the capitalist state, the road to power, and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
	sangha.net /messengers/marx.htm (1008 words)

	The LCR repudiates the dictatorship of the proletariat
		It is natural that the LCR give up the workers government because it considers that the historic period of struggle opened up in October 1917 to have closed with the fall of the USSR.
		What is odd is not that the LCR abandon the strategic demand for a workers government, but that it has chosen as the moment for doing so one in which it announces the formation of a common slate together with Lutte Ouvriere, situated on the extreme left of the French political spectrum.
		This is no "contradiction," however, because neither does LO distinguish itself for propaganda or the defense of this historic demand, whose links are the Communist Manifesto of 1848, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Communist International of 1918 and the Fourth International of 1938.
	www.po.org.ar /english/826art2.htm (541 words)

	AsiaSource: Asia Biography - a resource of the Asia Society
		Ho Chin Minh, founder and leader of the Vietnamese communist movement and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969.
		In late 1924 he was sent to Canton as an interpreter for the Comintern mission to the revolutionary government of Sun Yatsen.
		It announced the formation of the League for the Independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh for short), a new front organized under Party leadership to seek independence from French rule and Japanese military occupation.
	www.asiasource.org /society/hochiminh.cfm (1286 words)

	Towards an international socialist alliance
		The Communist parties of Europe were already in decline before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
		In France a whole generation of militants has been left orphan by the shift to the right not only of the Communist Party but of the CGT, the militant trade union confederation that was and still is to a large extent associated it.
		Unfortunately, in such a key country as France, the possibility of using the LO-LCR election campaign as a springboard for a new party has for the moment been wasted, mainly because of the absolute incomprehension by LO of the need for such a party.
	www.redflag.org.uk /articles/issix/is6isa.html (4133 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Communist Manifesto \| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
		For much of the twentieth century, The Communist Manifesto was accepted as doctrine by those living under Communist rule as well as by those caught up in the fervor of revolutionary political activity, while others considered it a piece of propaganda of interest mainly to scholars of political history and international relations.
		After the widespread and unsuccessful revolutionary activity across Europe earlier in the year, it was already clear to Marx that the immediacy of the program outlined in the Manifesto could not well serve the political and social conditions of the times.
		This work elucidates the revolutionary implications of the capitalist system of production and argues that its demise is an inevitable consequence of its own development.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/communist_manifesto.html (1907 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).
		Joint press statement of the Communist Party of Albania (Reconstructed) and the New Party of Labour of Albania; editorial correction - re Mikhail Riumin.
		The revolutionary process in colonial-type countries: A paper read by Bill Bland on behalf of the Communist League at the Marxist-Leninist seminar in London, July 1993; 17 pages
	website.lineone.net /~comleague/intercom/compbib.html (815 words)

	2004 Resolution on Nepal from International Communist Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has been leading People’s War in Nepal since 1996 in order to overthrow feudalism and imperialist domination by accomplishing New Democratic Revolution ushering to Communism having transform into Socialism.
		Hails the revolutionary masses seize political power bit by bit, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
		Urge the Communists, Revolutionaries, Democrats and Anti-Imperialist forces of the world to support the current political outlet put forward by the CPN(M), the Roundtable Conference, Interim Government and Election of the Constituent Assembly.
	www.frso.org /docs/2004/2004nepalstmt.htm (322 words)

	Declaration of the League for the Fourth International
		A revolutionary party must be built in the best tradition of Cannonism, which was continued by the Revolutionary Tendency of the SWP in the 1960s, as it opposed the SWP’s embrace of Castroism, the existing liberal and nationalist fl leadership, and the SWP’s reunification with Pablo/Mandel.
		A stunning fact in the degeneration of the International Communist League has been how, as it has gone from Trotskyism to left-centrism, it has begun to repeat many of the arguments long used by various centrist and even reformist pretenders to Trotskyism, some of the same arguments that the ICL polemicized against in the past.
		The British Workers Power and its satellites grouped in the League for a Revolutionary Communist International have recently returned to their “state capitalist” roots: after a decade and a half of pretending to uphold the Trotskyist characterization of deformed workers states, WP has now declared that the bourgeois state was never replaced in East Europe.
	www.internationalist.org /lfideclaration.html (4666 words)

	Fourth International Sections
		The Fourth International is a world-wide network of revolutionary socialists who trace their roots back to the struggle of Leon Trotsky and others against Stalinism.
		Today, the Fourth International has sections in over 40 countries.
		Communist Action Party - a current within (Syria)
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/fi1.html (136 words)

	The League of Nations and the Communist International (From Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed, Chapter 8, Section 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The rapprochement and subsequent outright military treaty with France, the chief defender of the status quo-a policy which resulted from the victory of German National Socialism-is infinitely more favorable to France than to the Soviets.
		Those virtuous nation which swear eternal loyalty to the League compel themselves the more resolutely to employ it in support of their peace.
		When the British Socialist, Sir Stafford Cripps, called the League of Nations an international union of brigands, which was more impolite than unjust, the London Times ironically asked: "In that case, how explain the adherence of the Soviet Union to the League of Nations?" It is not easy to answer.
	www.marxist.com /league-of-nations-communist-international1936.htm (3194 words)

	SparkNotes: The Communist Manifesto: Context
		The Communist Manifesto can be understood as one attempt to influence history by spreading information about the communist movement.
		Marx's theory should be understood in the context of the hardships suffered by 19th-century workers in England, France and Germany.
		The Communist Manifesto was written on the eve of the Revolution of 1848 in Germany.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/communist/context.html (464 words)

	The Manifesto of the Communist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Manifesto marked the end of a year-long discussion within the League of the Just about the objectives and methods of proletarian emancipation and implied the conclusion of its transformation into the League of Communists.
		In Marxist literature this publication, which marked a milestone in the theoretical evolution of Marx and Engels and reflected the crucial principles of their world view in a relatively self-contained and complete form, is held to be the birth certificate of scientific socialism, which was fundamentally distinct from utopian socialism.
		It provided the basis for the reorganization of the League of Communists between 1849 and 1852 and even after the league's dissolution it remained the most important source for communication and understanding among members of the league.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/commat.htm (594 words)

	socialister.dk - Arkivet - Simpel søgning
		Jim Wolfreys looks at the history of Le Pen and the Front National, and argues that it was the collapse of the social democrat Jospin's vote, rather than a shift to the right in French politics, that was the crucial element in the election.
		Slavoj iek, author of 'Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?', Daniel Bensaïd, a leading member of the Revolutionary Communist League in France, and John Rees, author of The Algebra of Revolution, put forward their vieves on the kind of organisation we need in the movement today.
		Lenin's theory of the revolutionary party has long been one of the most debated questions on the left.
	www.socialister.dk /arkivet/soeg.asp?nr=8095 (510 words)

	The French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire defends its opportunism
		The Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire [LCR—Revolutionary Communist League] of France is an organization specializing in a brand of “left” demagogy that is devoid of content.
		The response of the French bourgeois political apparatus, both its right and left wing, including the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, was to launch a concerted campaign for a vote for Chirac.
		This “revolutionary” and “communist” organization effectively called on workers and youth to give their political support to the chosen representative of French big business.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jun2002/lcr-j10.shtml (2110 words)

	On The History of the Communist League by Frederick Engels
		And the theoretical principles that the Communist League had inscribed on its banner in the Communist Manifesto of 1847 constitute today the strongest international bond of the entire proletarian movement of both Europe and America.
		In both respects the League obtained lively support through the wisdom of the governments which, by resorting to deportation, converted any objectionable worker — and in nine cases our of ten he was a member of the League — into an emissary.
		We kept in touch with the revolutionary section of the English Chartists through Julian Harney, the editor of the central organ of the movement, The Northern Star, to which I was a contributor.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1885hist.htm (5806 words)

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