Where We Stand. Platform and Programmatic Documents of the International Communist Opposition. Vol. 4. Published by the Communist Party of U.S.A. (Opposition), New York. January, 1935.

Where We Stand. Platform and Programmatic Documents of the International Communist Opposition. Vol. 4. Published by the Communist Party of U.S.A. (Opposition), New York. January, 1935.

The final selection of documents written 1934 that served as the basis for the International Communist Opposition, sometimes referred to as the ‘Right Opposition’ or the Bukharin International. Though a formal international tendency based on these documents was never built, the expelled members of the Comintern seeing themselves as an external faction of the CI, these documents remain essential to understanding this important trend of thought in World Marxism. With followers in around 15 countries internationally, its strongest group, the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Opposition)was led by Heinrich Brandler. The ICO held several international meetings in the early 1930s before it began to disintegrate in late 1933. As different groups went their own way, what was left of the ICO voted to join the London Bureau in February, 1938.

Contents: Foreword, Civil War in Austria: Statement of the National Buro, The Present Situation and the Tasks of the Communists: Resolution July 1934, The San Francisco General Strike: National Buro, National Buro Declaration: Independent Unionism Today, The Change in Comintern Tactics and the Tasks of the Communist Opposition (September 22 1934), To the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America: Proposal for United Front by the Communist Party (Opposition) (December 17 1934), Complete Correspondence Between the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party, USA (Opposition) in Negotiations for Communist Unity (December, 1934).

PDF of pamphlet: https://archive.org/download/WhereWeStandVolume4/WhereWeStand4_text.pdf

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