The Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG;
Arabic
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: المجموعة الشيوعية الثورية , ''Tajammu' al-Shuyu'i al-Thawri'') is a
Trotskyist
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organisation in
Lebanon
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, associated with the
reunified Fourth International
The Fourth International (FI), founded in 1938, is a Trotskyist international.
Following a ten-year schism, in 1963 the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat of the Fourth Internationa ...
.
History
The GCR was founded in the 1970s as a full 'section' of the Fourth International. The 2003 World Congress of the International reorganised it as a sympathising group, reflecting a decline in the GCR's membership.
The organisation contributes to
International Viewpoint and
Inprecor
''Inprecor'' is a multilingual monthly Marxist magazine published by the reunified Fourth International. Its name is a contraction of International Press Correspondence and indicates that the magazine translates articles and letters from revol ...
.
Members
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Hani Adada (journalist)
Online articles by RCG member Hani Adada at thepublicsource.org.
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See also
* Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (OCAL)
*Lebanese Communist Party
The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP; , transliterated: ) is a communist party in Lebanon. It was founded in 1943 as a division of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party into the Syrian Communist Party and the Lebanese Communist Party, but the divi ...
*Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War ( ) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
The religious diversity of the ...
*Lebanese National Movement
The Lebanese National Movement (LNM; , ''Al-Harakat al-Wataniyya al-Lubnaniyya'') was a front of Leftist, pan-Arabist and Syrian nationalist parties and organizations active during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, which supported ...
*Progressive Socialist Party
The Progressive Socialist Party () is a Lebanese political party. Its confessional base is in the Druze sect and its regional base is in Mount Lebanon Governorate, especially the Chouf District. Founded by Kamal Jumblatt in 1949, the party ...
*1982 Lebanon War
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...
Notes
References
*Alain Menargues, ''Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban: Du coup d'état de Béchir Gémayel aux massacres des camps palestiniens'', Albin Michel, Paris 2004. (in French)
*Denise Ammoun, ''Histoire du Liban contemporain: Tome 2 1943-1990'', Fayard, Paris 2005. (in French) �
*Edgar O'Ballance
Major Edgar "Paddy" O'Ballance (17 July 1918, Dublin, Ireland – 8 July 2009, Wakebridge, Derbyshire, England) was an Irish-born British military journalist, researcher, defence commentator and academic lecturer specialising in internatio ...
, ''Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92'', Palgrave Macmillan, London 1998.
* Itamar Rabinovich
Itamar Rabinovich (; born 8 October 1942) is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996, and the form ...
, ''The war for Lebanon, 1970–1985'', Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London 1989 (revised edition). , 0-8014-9313-7 �
* Rex Brynen, ''Sanctuary and Survival: the PLO in Lebanon'', Boulder: Westview Press, Oxford 1990. �
*Robert Fisk
Robert William Fisk (12 July 194630 October 2020) was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
As an international correspo ...
, ''Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War'', London: Oxford University Press, (3rd ed. 2001). �
* Marius Deeb, ''The Lebanese Civil War'', Praeger Publishers Inc., New York 1980.
* Thomas Collelo (ed.), ''Lebanon: a country study'', Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Headquarters, Department of the Army (DA Pam 550-24), Washington D.C., December 1987 (Third edition 1989). �
*Tom Najem and Roy C. Amore, ''Historical Dictionary of Lebanon'', Second Edition, Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Boulder, New York & London 2021. , 1538120437
External links
Revolutionary Communist Group – Lebanon official page at revolutionarycommunist.org.Revolutionary Communist Group – Lebanon official page at internationalviewpoint.org.
GCR communique on Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
Communist parties in Lebanon
Trotskyist organizations in Asia
Fourth International (post-reunification)
Lebanese National Movement
Factions in the Lebanese Civil War
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