The Communist International
The Communist International was founded in March 1919 in Moscow, at the call of the Russian Communist Party, as the international organization of the revolutionary proletariat. It is a union of Communist Parties and affiliated organizations in various countries. Its aim, as stated in the Programme adopted at the Sixth World Congress in 1928 and amended at subsequent congresses, is to organize and lead the struggle of the working class and all exploited people against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of national and colonial oppression, toward the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the abolition of classes.
The Communist International stands on the ground of revolutionary Marxism and its further development in the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolution. It wages an active struggle against all forms of bourgeois philosophy and practical opportunism, and subordinates the temporary, partial, group, and national interests of the proletariat to its lasting, general, and international interests.
The Communist International has never ceased to exist.
Structure
The supreme body of the Communist International is the World Congress, composed of delegates from all affiliated Parties and organizations. The World Congress elects the Executive Committee of the Communist International (E.C.C.I.), which directs the work of the International between congresses. The E.C.C.I. elects from its membership a Presidium, which acts as the permanent body carrying out all the business in the interval between meetings of the E.C.C.I. The Presidium in turn elects the Political Secretariat, which is the executive organ of the International and is empowered to make decisions and draw up proposals for the E.C.C.I. and its Presidium.
The International Control Commission (I.C.C.) investigates matters affecting the unity and discipline of the Sections and audits the finances of the International.
The Constitution has been revised at subsequent congresses to reflect the changed conditions under which the International and its Sections operate.
Sections
The Communist International includes affiliated Parties, organizations, and working groups on all inhabited continents. The names, locations, and membership of the Sections are not published, in consideration of the conditions under which many of them operate.
In any given country there can be only one Communist Party affiliated to the Communist International and constituting its Section in that country. In countries where no Section exists, the International may maintain liaison committees, study circles, or correspondent groups pending the formation of a full Section.
The International maintains regional bureaus for the coordination of work among clusters of Sections.
The Programme
The foundational programmatic document of the Communist International is the Programme of the Communist International, adopted at the Sixth World Congress in 1928. The Programme analyzes the epoch of imperialism and the general crisis of capitalism, defines the principal types of revolution and the tasks of the proletariat in the various categories of countries, sets forth the principles of the proletarian dictatorship, and outlines the strategy and tactics of the Communist movement in the struggle for the overthrow of capitalist rule.
The Programme has been supplemented and amended by resolutions adopted at subsequent congresses and enlarged plenums of the E.C.C.I. The foundational analysis of the Programme — the characterization of the epoch as one of imperialism, wars, and proletarian revolutions; the centrality of the colonial and national question; the identification of social democracy as the principal enemy within the workers’ movement; and the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat as the form of transition to socialism — remains in force.
The full text of the 1928 Programme is available here.
Reproduction
No copyright is claimed on the contents of this publication. Reproduction, translation, and distribution are permitted and encouraged. The International requests only that reproduced material be attributed to International Correspondence and that the text not be altered without indication.
This policy follows the practice established by the Comintern’s original press organs, which carried the notice: Unpublished Manuscripts — Please Reprint.
Contact
The International does not maintain public offices. Communications are handled through the Secretariat. We do not respond to inquiries regarding the internal affairs, membership, finances, or location of the International or its Sections.
A Note on This Project
This website is a work of alternate-history fiction, political satire, and literary worldbuilding.
The historical Communist International — also known as the Comintern or Third International — was founded in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved by decision of its Presidium on May 15, 1943. It does not exist as an active organization in 2026. No organization currently operating uses the name “Communist International” or claims continuity with the historical Comintern, and this publication does not represent, speak for, or claim affiliation with any real political party, government, trade union, or organization.
The premise of this site is fictional: it imagines a world in which the Comintern survived its dissolution and continued to operate, in altered form, into the twenty-first century. All articles, editorials, correspondence, and documents published here are written within that fiction. The institutional voice, the fictional authors and their biographies, and the organizational structure described on this page are elements of the literary project.
Readers who encounter this site without context should understand: this is not a real organization. This is a literary project. If you are uncertain, you have your answer.
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