Comac (youth movement)
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- Not to be confused with China Commercial Aircraft Company.
Comac is the youth wing of the Belgian marxist
Marxism
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
party, the Workers Party of Belgium
Workers Party of Belgium
The Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few parties that operates as a single Belgian party...
(WPB). The movement is active in six Belgian universities, many colleges and secondary schools, and also has several community organizing projects. Comac is a pan-Belgian youth movement which brings young people from Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels together. People between 14 and 30 years of age are able to join. It is not necessary to be a member of the WPB to join.
History
Comac is a result of the 2003 merger of the LeninistLeninism
In Marxist philosophy, Leninism is the body of political theory for the democratic organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party, and the achievement of a direct-democracy dictatorship of the proletariat, as political prelude to the establishment of socialism...
MML, Mouvement marxiste leniniste, and Marxistisch-Leninistische Beweging (MLB), which were active at universities, and Rebelle or Rode Jeugd, who were active in the secondary schools.
See also
- Workers' Party of Belgium
- Communist Youth Movement (Netherlands)Communist Youth Movement (Netherlands)Communist Youth Movement is a political youth organization in the Netherlands. CJB was founded on September 21, 2003, as an independent, though politically allied, continuation of the youth of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands, NCPN Jongeren .It is the youth organization of the NCPN, and...
- World Federation of Democratic YouthWorld Federation of Democratic YouthThe World Federation of Democratic Youth is a progressive youth organization, recognized by the United Nations as an international youth non-governmental organization. WFDY describes itself as an "anti-imperialist, left-wing" organisation...