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Communist Action

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Spanish name
  
Acción Comunista

Founded
  
1964 (1964)

Headquarters
  
Madrid

Catalan name
  
Acció Comunista

Dissolved
  
1978 (1978)

Split from
  
Popular Liberation Front

Communist Action (Spanish: Acción Comunista, Catalan: Acció Comunista) was a Marxist organisation in Spain founded in exile in 1964, during the Franco dictadorship. The organisation produced a newspaper entitled Acción Comunista. Among its members were Carlos Semprún and José Antonio Ubierna. In 1970 AC came in contact with workerist organizations like UHP and CRAS (Comunas Revolucionarias de Acción Socialista). In 1976 some of its members, especially in Catalonia, joined the POUM.

AC was legalized in Spain in 1977. In the first democratic elections AC participated in the Front for the Unity of the Workers, with the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), the Organization of Communist Left (OIC) and the POUM. After an unsuccessful process of merger with the POUM, AC held a congress of self-dissolution in 1978.

Ideology

Communist Action was influenced by the English-speaking New Left, specially by the American Studies on the Left and the British New Left Review.

AC didn't practice democratic centralism and was influenced by Situationism, Council communism and Luxemburgism. Among the most relevant authors for AC there were: Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Otto Rühle, Andreu Nin, Alexandra Kollontai, Trotsky, Joaquim Maurín, Karl Korsch, Paul Mattick, Anton Pannekoek, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, etc. AC was a rather eclectic party, that did not aspire to be the vanguard party of the working class, nor its "point of reference", but was a supporter of ideas like "workers' democracy" and "self-management socialism".

References

Communist Action Wikipedia