Description
Communism, No. 4 (July 2026) is the fourth issue of the International Communist Party’s semi-annual theoretical review, opening the magazine’s third year of publication. The publication serves as the Party’s theoretical and historical organ, continuing its effort to restore Marxism to its original revolutionary integrity and to uphold the continuity of the Communist Left. Each issue examines the material basis of bourgeois domination and the tasks of proletarian reawakening amid global crisis, militarism, and the disaggregation of social life under capital.
This issue opens by confronting the unanimous celebration, across every current of the bourgeois and Stalinist camps, of the working class’s subordination to the Second Imperialist War — a “great patriotic victory” won at the expense of proletarian class independence. It continues the investigation of race, class, and the agrarian question in the United States, turning to the English Revolution and the colonies to trace how bourgeois class relations were forged and exported through conquest and settlement. It advances the history of the Communist Party of China into its earliest strikes and trade-union formations, following the young movement’s first collisions with capital on Chinese soil.
Alongside these studies, the series on bourgeois ideology turns to Dante Alighieri, examining how medieval poetic and philosophical synthesis gave enduring form to the ruling ideas of a declining feudal order. A new series opens on the history of the Left within Ottoman socialism and the formation of the Communist Party of Turkey, extending the Party’s historical work into a region and current rarely treated by the wider communist press. The issue continues the long study of Russia’s economic and social structure (1955), returning once more to the struggle for power in the two revolutions.
From the Archive of the Left, this issue gathers founding documents on the origin of the Communist Party of China — the November 1920 Manifesto, the Programme and First Resolution of the First Congress, reports from the Beijing and Guangzhou communist organizations, the 1921 Declaration of the Chinese Labour Secretariat, and contemporary accounts of Chinese labor organizing through 1922 — placing the Party’s historical narrative alongside the primary sources it is built from.
Each article reaffirms that Marxism is not an academic pursuit but the living doctrine of a class destined to abolish exploitation. Through historical analysis and theoretical rigor, Communism stands as the printed organ of the invariant program of proletarian revolution.
