The International Communist Seminar (ICS) was an annual

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conference held in May in

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. It was organized by the Workers' Party of Belgium (WPB). In 1992, Ludo Martens, leader of the WPB initiated the conference, which gathered various tendencies of Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations. He is noted for having proposed the unification of the four main tendencies of the Marxist-Leninist movement. These are the pro-

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groups, the pro- Chinese, the pro- Albanian, and pro-

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. Around 200 organizations of Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Europe have taken part in it. For four years, from 1992 to 1995, the ICS worked on identifying "the true causes of the capitalist restoration in Soviet Union" and in Eastern Europe and to draw lessons from it for the future.''Presentation on the International Communist Seminar'', 2006
(accessed on 28 September 2010) The last seminar took place in June 2014. The member parties have largely been absorbed into

International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties The International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) is an annual conference attended by communist and workers' parties from several countries. It originated in 1998 when the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) invited communist a ...

Annual conference

Themes of the recent ICS Conferences:''International Communist Seminar Program, 1997''
(accessed on 28 September 2010)
(accessed on 28 September 2010) *2014: 100 years after World War I – The world in 2014 *2013: The attacks on the democratic rights and freedoms in the world capitalist crisis *2011: The strengthening of communist parties in times of a deepening capitalist systemic crisis *2006: Present and past experiences in the international communist movement: "The impact of the Communist International on the founding and the development of the communist parties in particular countries", "The exchange of concrete experiences of Party work in the working class and among the youth" *2005: Internationalist experiences and tasks of Communists in the struggle against imperialism *2004: The strategy and tactics of the struggle against global US imperialist war *2003: The Marxist-Leninist Party and the anti-imperialist Front facing the war *2002: Economical crises and the possibility of a major world crisis *2001: The world socialist revolution in the conditions of imperialist globalization. *2000: Imperialism, fascization and fascism *1999: Imperialism means war *1998: The working class, its leading role, new forms of exploitation and experiences of struggle and organization. *1997: The way of the October revolution is the way of the liberation of the workers *1996: The anti-imperialist struggle under the New World Order.

Participating parties

*Afghanistan, People's Party of Afghanistan *Algeria,

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (french: Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, PADS) is a Communist party in Algeria. When in 1993, during the Algerian Civil War, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resi ...

*Azerbaijan,

Azerbaijan Communist Party The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( az, Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası; russian: Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of th ...

*Belarus, Belarusian Communist Workers' Party *Belgium, Workers' Party of Belgium *Benin,

Communist Party of Benin The Communist Party of Benin (french: Parti Communiste du Bénin) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Benin. PCB was founded in 1977 by the Union of Communists of Dahomey. The party was initially called Communist Party o ...

*Brazil,

Communist Party of Brazil The Communist Party of Brazil ( pt-BR, Partido Comunista do Brasil, PCdoB) is a political party in Brazil. The PCdoB officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist theory. It has national reach and deep penetration in the trade union and studen ...

*Brazil, Free Homeland Party *Bulgaria, Party of Bulgarian Communists *China,

Communist Party of China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

*Colombia,

Colombian Communist Party The Colombian Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC) is a legal communist party in Colombia. It was founded in 1930 as the Communist Party of Colombia, at which point it was the Colombian section of the Comintern, and changed i ...

*Cuba,

Communist Party of Cuba The Communist Party of Cuba ( es, Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba. It was founded on 3 October 1965 as the successor to the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which was in turn made up of the 26 ...

*Cyprus,

Progressive Party of Working People The Progressive Party of Working People ( el, Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού, ; abbr. , AKEL; tr, Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi) is a Marxist–LeninistHelena Smith, Cyprus gets ready for a communist 'takeove ...

*Denmark,

Communist Party of Denmark The Communist Party of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti, DKP) is a communist party in Denmark. The DKP was founded on 9 November 1919 as the Left-Socialist Party of Denmark (, VSP), through a merger of the Socialist Youth League and ...

*Denmark, Communist Party in Denmark *France, Union of Revolutionary Communists of France *France, Pole of Communist Revival in France *Germany,

German Communist Party The German Communist Party (german: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports left positions and was an observer member of the European Left. At the end of February 2016 it left the European party. His ...

*Greece,

Communist Party of Greece The Communist Party of Greece ( el, Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a political party in Greece. Founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece and adopted its curre ...

*Hungary,

Hungarian Workers' Party The Hungarian Workers' Party ( hu, Magyar Munkáspárt) is a communist party in Hungary led by Gyula Thürmer. Established after the fall of the communist Hungarian People's Republic, the party has yet to win a seat in the Hungarian parliament ...

*Iran,

Tudeh Party of Iran The Tudeh Party of Iran ( fa-at, حزب تودۀ ایران, Ḥezb-e Tūde-ye Īrān, lit=Party of the Masses of Iran) is an Iranian communist party. Formed in 1941, with Soleiman Mirza Eskandari as its head, it had considerable influence in i ...

*Ireland,

Workers' Party of Ireland The Workers' Party ( ga, Páirtí na nOibrithe) is a Marxist–Leninist political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It arose as the original Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, but took ...

*Laos,

Lao People's Revolutionary Party The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The party's monopoly on state power is guaranteed by Article 3 of the Constitution of Laos, and it maintains a unitar ...

*Latvia,

Socialist Party of Latvia The Socialist Party of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija, abbr. LSP; russian: Социалистическая партия Латвии) is a communist party in Latvia. It is positioned on the far-left on the political spectrum. It ...

*Lebanon,

Lebanese Communist Party The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP), abbr. PCL is a communist party in Lebanon. It was founded in 1924 by the Lebanese intellectual, writer and reporter Yusuf Yazbek and Fu'ad al-Shamali, a tobacco worker from Bikfaya. History Creation The Sy ...

*Lithuania, Socialist People's Front *Luxembourg,

Communist Party of Luxembourg The Communist Party of Luxembourg ( lb, Kommunistesch Partei vu Lëtzebuerg; french: Parti Communiste Luxembourgeois; german: Kommunistische Partei Luxemburgs; abbr. KPL or PCL) is a communist party in Luxembourg. is the current chairman of the ...

*Malta,

Communist Party of Malta Communist Party of Malta ( mt, Partit Komunista Malti) is a communist party in Malta. PKM was founded in 1969 at a secret congress in the town of Gwardamangia, following the departure from the Malta Labour Party of a group of left-wing militant ...

*Mexico,

Popular Socialist Party of Mexico Popular Socialist Party of Mexico ( es, Partido Popular Socialista de México, PPSM) is a communist party in Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country ...

*Netherlands, New Communist Party of the Netherlands *North Korea,

Workers' Party of Korea The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea. Founded in 1949 from the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party ...

*Palestine,

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( ar, الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, translit=al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn, PFLP) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary so ...

*Palestine, Palestinian Communist Party *Philippines, Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 *Portugal,

Portuguese Communist Party The Portuguese Communist Party ( pt, Partido Comunista Português, , PCP) is a communist, Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist,Portu ...

*Russia, Communist Party of the Russian Federation *Russia,

Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (RCWP-CPSU; russian: Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии � ...

*Russia,

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001) The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) is an organization which split from the Union ...

*Serbia,

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( sr-cyrl, Нова комунистичка партија Југославије, Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije, NKPJ) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Serbia. Its go ...

*South Sudan, Communist Party of South Sudan *Spain,

Communist Party of Spain The Communist Party of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos. It currently has two of its politicians serving a ...

*Spain, Spanish Communist Workers' Party *Spain,

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is ...

*Sri Lanka, People's Liberation Front *Sweden,

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

*Switzerland,

Swiss Party of Labour The Swiss Party of Labour (german: Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz; french: Parti Suisse du Travail – Parti Ouvrier et Populaire; it, Partito Svizzero del Lavoro – Partito Operaio e Popolare; rm, Partida svizra da la lavur) is a communist pa ...

*Switzerland, Communist Party of Southern Switzerland *Switzerland, Communist Party of Geneva - "Les Communistes" *Taiwan, Labor Party *Tunisia, Democratic Patriots' Party *Turkey, Communist Party of Turkey *Turkey, Labour Party *Ukraine, Union of Communists of Ukraine *United Kingdom,

Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), abbreviated CPGB-ML, is an anti-revisionist, Marxist–Leninist communist party in the United Kingdom, active in England, Scotland, and Wales. The CPGB-ML was created after a split ...

*USA,

Freedom Road Socialist Organization The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a Marxist–Leninist organization in the United States. It formed in 1985 amid the collapse of the Maoist-oriented New Communist movement that emerged in the 1970s. The FRSO's component groups ...

*Venezuela,

Communist Party of Venezuela The Communist Party of Venezuela ( es, Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV) is a communist party and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela. It was the main leftist political party in Venezuela from its foundation in 1931 until its ...

*Vietnam, Communist Party of Vietnam''22 International Communist Seminar held in Brussels''
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References

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1999 Declaration of the International Communist Seminar
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See also

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