At its foundation, the ICC's political principles as laid out in its Platform represented a synthesis of the different left fractions that had left, or been expelled from, the Third International. Organisationally however, the ICC looked above all to the experience of the Italian Fraction, and in particular to its conception of the Fraction as a "bridge" between an old Party which had failed or betrayed, and a new Party which must necessarily be created by the working class if its revolution is to be successful.

Report on the role of the ICC as a “fraction”

Submitted by International Review on 26 January, 2016 - 20:48

The ICC’s 21st Congress adopted a report on the ICC’s role as a “Fraction”. We publish here the first part, giving the historical context and a reminder of the Fraction as a concept.

The Bolsheviks and the Fraction

Submitted by International Review on 3 April, 1991 - 02:26

This final article in the series on "Party and Fraction" concentrates on the formation of the Bolshevik fraction and its role in preparing the way for the formation of the Third International

The Fraction-Party from Marx to Lenin, 1848-1917

Submitted by International Review on 2 January, 1991 - 02:10

The previous articles in this series concentrate on the experience of the Italian Fraction and its immediate successors, on which the ICC has based its own view of organisation. Here, we return to see how the question was posed in the days first of Marx, then of Lenin.

The international communist left, 1937-52

Submitted by International Review on 1 April, 1990 - 06:25

This article continues a polemic with Battaglia Comunista around the question of the relationship between Fraction and Party, as it was posed between the Spanish Civil War and the years immediately following World War II.

The Italian Left, 1922-1937

Submitted by International Review on 25 September, 1989 - 09:15

The Italian Fraction, founded in the Paris suburb of Pantin in 1928 by a group of militants in exile, saw itself explicitly as taking on the task of educating militants in preparation for the time when the rebirth of class struggle after the defeat of the 1917 Russian Revolution would reach a point when the creation of a new Party - a new International - would be both possible and necessary.

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