Internationalist Communist Union

The Internationalist Communist Union (ICU; French: Union Communiste Internationaliste) is an international grouping of Trotskyist political parties, centred on Lutte Ouvrière in France.

It believes that the socialist transformation of society can be accomplished only by the working class, consciously fighting in its own class interests, and therefore that the task of revolutionary groups is to construct a working class revolutionary party. The ICU believes that the only possible programmatic basis for revolutionaries rests on Marxist ideas in the tradition of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. The ICU focus their activities, whether propaganda or intervention, within the working class.^{[1][independent source needed]}

Associated groups

Country	Group	Misc.
Belgium	Lutte Ouvrière/Arbeidersstrijd
France	Union Communiste	Better known as Lutte Ouvrière (LO)
French Antilles	Combat Ouvrier	Organized on Martinique and Guadeloupe
United Kingdom	Workers' Fight
Ivory Coast	Union Africaine des Travailleurs Communistes Internationalistes (UATCI)	Also organizes in France
Turkey	Sınıf Mücadelesi	Based in Britain
Spain	Voz Obrera
Germany	Bund Revolutionärer Arbeiter
Italy	L'Internazionale
Haiti	Organisation des travailleurs révolutionnaires (OTR-UCI)
United States	The Spark	Fraternal group, not a full member of the ICU

See also

• List of Trotskyist internationals