Appeal for revolutionary solidarity and defence of proletarian principles

The "International Group of the Communist Left" (IGCL) has been snitching again.

In its latest bulletin, under the title "Against individualism and the 2.0 circle spirit of the 2020s", we read: "... the practice of video meetings is unfortunately tending to replace physical meetings. We have nothing against the organisation of video meetings between isolated comrades, especially at international level, who cannot meet in the same place. On the other hand, the fact that militants tend to no longer make the effort, or even consider it superfluous, to travel and take part in physical meetings, or ‘face-to-face’ meetings as managers in companies call them, is a step backwards in relation to an achievement and an organising principle of the workers' movement."
And this passage refers to a footnote: "We know, for example, that the ICC no longer holds local meetings, even when it has several members in the same town. It holds ‘transversal’ meetings, ‘bringing together’ members from different places, thus isolated from their comrades with whom they are supposed to intervene in the event of workers’ or other struggles, but remaining comfortably at home. The criteria for assigning members to particular video networks can only be arbitrary and personalised. A modern remake of the Zinovievist Bolshevisation of Communist Parties in the early 1920s, which replaced meetings by territorial or local sections with the creation of factory cells, and which the Italian Left strongly denounced."
So here we have the IGCL publicly informing the state and all the world's police forces about how the ICC organises its internal meetings! That's the group's raison d'être: to monitor the CCI in order to divulge on its website as much information as possible about our organisation and its militants. As a reminder, the IGCL or its ancestor the so-called "Internal Fraction of the ICC" (IFICC)[1] have already publicly disclosed :
- the date of a conference to be held by our section in Mexico in the presence of militants from other countries. This repugnant act of facilitating the repressive work of the bourgeois state is all the more despicable in that its members knew full well that some of our comrades in Mexico had already, in the past, been victims of repression and that some had been forced to flee their countries of origin.
- the real initials of one of our comrades with the precision that he was the author of this or that text given his "style" (which is an interesting indication for the police services).
- and even, on a regular basis, extracts from our internal bulletins!

But the attentive reader may have noticed two little words from the IGCL’s pen that are in fact directly inspired by cop techniques: "We know" .

"We know, for example, that the ICC...". They want to show us that they know, that they know what's going on in the ICC, that they know because they have an informer, a mole. By doing so, they want to sow suspicion in our ranks, to distil the poison of mistrust.
Since its inception, every time the IGCL manages to glean from the sewers a 'scoop' on the internal life of the ICC, it shouts it out it at the top of its lungs. In 2014, in its second issue, the IGCL published extracts from our bulletins, boasting that they were exploiting a "leak " (as they put it). To add insult to injury, in a footnote it even pointed out: "We have undertaken not to disclose publicly how and by whom we received the ICC's internal newsletters. Nevertheless, we can assure you that the 'source' is free from any suspicion of police or other affiliation ".
In its latest newsletter, the IGCL continues its work, again in a footnote: "... the ICC’s internal bulletins contain many contributions on the subject. It would certainly be useful to gather them together and publish them one day ".
Victor Serge, in his book What every revolutionary must know about repression, clearly shows that the spread of suspicion and slander is the bourgeois state's weapon of choice for destroying revolutionary organisations: "Confidence in the party is the cement of any revolutionary force (...) The enemies of action, the cowards, the well-installed, the opportunists willingly pick up their weapons in the sewers! They use suspicion and slander to discredit revolutionaries (...) This evil - the suspicion between us - can only be contained by a great effort of will".
The IGCL used exactly the same methods as did the GPU, Stalin's political police, to destroy the Trotskyist movement of the 1930s from within.

The ICC will not fall into this trap.

But in doing so, the IGCL is not only attacking our organisation. It encourages the development of the habits of thugs and snitches, it has broken the taboo on denunciation, and it has gangrened the entire proletarian milieu. Worse still, the IGCL commits all these crimes in the name of the Communist Left!
That's why we call on all revolutionary organisations, all minorities, all individuals who sincerely want to defend the proletarian revolution and its principles, to publicly denounce these acts of snitching.
Only the greatest political firmness on principles, the strongest solidarity between revolutionaries, can build a dam in the face of this filth.


 

[1] The IGCL was formed in 2013 from the merger of the IFICC with the Klasbatalo group in Montreal.