The Internationalist Communist Union (in French, Union Communiste Internationaliste) is an international grouping of Trotskyist political parties

Political party

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, centred on Lutte Ouvrière in France

France

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It believes that the socialist transformation of society can be accomplished only by the working class

Working class

Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

, consciously fighting in its own class interests, and therefore that the task of revolutionary

Revolutionary

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 groups is to construct a working class revolutionary party

Revolutionary Party

Revolutionary Party is the name of several political parties, including:*Dominican Revolutionary Party*Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity*Revolutionary Progressive Nationalist Party of Haiti*Democratic Revolutionary Peoples Party, India...

. The ICU believes that the only possible programmatic basis for revolutionaries rests on Marxist ideas in the tradition of the Russian Revolution of 1917

Russian Revolution of 1917

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 and its Bolshevik

Bolshevik

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 leaders Lenin and Trotsky. The militants from this tendency focus their activities, whether propaganda or intervention, within the working class.

Other parties in the international tendency include Combat Ouvrier in Martinique

Martinique

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 and Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe

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, The Spark

Spark (U.S. organization)

The Spark group is a US Trotskyist organization. It is aligned internationally with the Lutte Ouvrière tendency.Spark began as a faction within the Spartacist League that was attracted to the French group Voix Ouvrière method of propagandizing in the factories...

 in the United States

United States

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 and Workers' Fight

Workers' Fight

Workers' Fight has been the name of several Trotskyist groups and publications in Britain.-Organisations:*Workers' Fight is also the name of a group in England linked to the French Lutte Ouvrière that focuses on activity in large factory workplaces, rather than trade union or community-based work...

 in the UK. There is also a grouping of African militants living in France, a group in the Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

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 named the UATCI, a Turkish group in Britain and a group in Haiti

Haiti

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See also: List of Trotskyist internationals