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Conference of worldwide communist parties

The International Communist Seminar (ICS) was an annual communist conference held in May in Brussels, Belgium. It was organized by the Workers' Party of Belgium (WPB).[1]

In 1992, Ludo Martens, leader of the WPB initiated the conference, which gathered various tendencies of Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations. He is noted for having proposed the unification of the four main tendencies of the Marxist-Leninist movement. These are the pro-Soviet groups, the pro-Chinese, the pro-Albanian, and pro-Cuban.[2] Around 200 organizations of Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Europe have taken part in it. For four years, from 1992 to 1995, the ICS worked on identifying "the true causes of the capitalist restoration in Soviet Union" and in Eastern Europe and to draw lessons from it for the future.[1]

The last seminar took place in June 2014. The member parties have largely been absorbed into International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties.

Themes of the recent ICS Conferences:[1][3][4][5][6]

Participating parties

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  1. ^ a b c Presentation on the International Communist Seminar, 2006 (accessed on 28 September 2010)
  2. ^ ""Proposals for the Unification of the International Communist Movement"". Archived from the original on 26 February 2001. Retrieved 26 February 2001.
  3. ^ International Communist Seminar Program, 1997 (accessed on 28 September 2010)
  4. ^ WPB.be: International Communist Seminar Program, 1998 (accessed on 28 September 2010)
  5. ^ a b 22 International Communist Seminar held in Brussels
  6. ^ FRSO presentation to the 2011 International Communist Seminar in Brussels
  7. ^ General Conclusions: Nineteenth International Communist Seminar Archived 23 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine