Revolutionary Workers' Current
Corriente Revolucionaria de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras
Founded2005 (as CcC)
2017 (as CRT)
Split fromNuevo Claridad
HeadquartersBarcelona
NewspaperContracorriente[1]
La Izquierda Diario
Youth wingContracorriente
IdeologyTrotskyism
Revolutionary socialism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationTrotskyist Fraction – Fourth International[2]
Website
crtweb.org

The Workers' Revolutionary Current (in Spanish: Corriente Revolucionaria de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras; in Catalan: Corrent Revolucionària de Treballadors i Treballadores) is a Trotskyist group in Spain.

History

Old logo used back when the CRT was named CcC.

It emerged around 2005, as a split of Nuevo Claridad after being integrated in Izquierda Unida's reformist project since 1993 and had abandoned a line of class independence;[3] following a conference given in Spain by the Bolivian leader of the LOR-CI, Javo Ferreira, they came into contact with the Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International, attending their third international conference in that year[4] and establishing themselves as their Spanish section under the name Class against Class (CcC).[2] With the emergence of the 15M movement, Class against Class managed to make a qualitative leap and could grow in the rest of the state due to the participation they had in the movement.[5] They participated actively in the general strikes of 2012 in that country,[6] supported the strike of the Panrico bakery workers in Barcelona (the largest since the Spanish Civil War),[7] the workers' struggle at the Santa Perpetua Coca-Cola factory,[8] the struggle of the hoteliers grouped in the platform Las Kellys[9] and the strike of the Movistar workers.[10] After a period of organic growth, Class against Class held an extraordinary conference and there resolved to change its name to Workers' Revolutionary Current.[3]

The CRT's information site is Izquierda Diario.es, written by the people of the party as a newspaper. Izquierda Diario.es is a part of the International Network La Izquierda Diario, published by the organizations making up the Trotskyist Fraction for the Fourth International. Before May 2016, the CRT published "Contracorriente", first as a monthly bulletin, later (since 2015) as a cultural and political magazine.

The CRT maintains organizational independence from the big left-wing parties of Spain, including Podemos and United Left. Its youth wing is Contracorriente ("Countercurrent"), formerly the Agrupación Revolucionaria No Pasarán (Revolutionary Group "They Shall Not Pass" - ARNP). They also promote the Spanish section of the feminist group Pan y Rosas ("Bread and Roses").

The CRT maintains a strong presence in Barcelona, Zaragoza and Madrid, being part of the student and worker's movement of those cities[11][12] and pushing the Left Student Union (Sindicato de Estudiantes de Izquierdas). The CRT currently is pushing the initiative No Hay Tiempo que Perder (there is no time to lose) to regroup the anti-capitalist left and expelled dissidents of Podemos.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Revista Contracorriente
  2. 1 2 Clase contra Clase se fusiona con el agrupamiento internacional Fracción Trotskista
  3. 1 2 (CRT), Corriente Revolucionaria de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras. "Nace la CRT: un nuevo nombre para una nueva etapa". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  4. ↑ "For a revolutionary workers' strategy". Left Voice. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  5. ↑ TvPTS El canal de la izquierda (2011-05-23), Barcelona. Asamblea del 22 de mayo / Santiago Lupe - Clase contra Clase #spanishrevolution, retrieved 2017-04-29
  6. ↑ "Crónica desde Madrid: histórica movilización y posterior represión". 2015-03-17. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  7. ↑ "Seis meses de la "ingobernable" huelga de Panrico | Clase contra Clase". 2015-02-26. Archived from the original on 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  8. ↑ "Encuentro Panrico - Coca Cola | Clase contra Clase". 2015-03-17. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  9. ↑ IzquierdaDiario.es. "Aniversario de Izquierda Diario en Madrid: "Queremos ser una chispa que encienda la llama"". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  10. ↑ Zaragoza, Javier Lartiga, delegado UGT Cotronic. "Los trabajadores precarios de Movistar por una Navidad en lucha". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-04-29.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ El SEI y la Agrupación Revolucionaria No Pasarán convocan una huelga en la enseñanza secundaria de Aragón. 20Minutos. EUROPA PRESS. 05.02.2013
  12. ↑ Zaragoza: Exitosa elección de CGT Telepizza, avanza la juventud trabajadora. Izquierda Diario.es
  13. ↑ No Hay Tiempo Que Perder: hacia la conformación de un nuevo frente anticapitalista y de clase "El pasado 28 de noviembre tuvo lugar en Málaga el primer Encuentro "No hay tiempo que perder". Participaron militantes de diversas organizaciones políticas de izquierda y activistas críticos de Podemos provenientes de Andalucía, Catalunya, Madrid, Castilla y León, Aragón y otras regiones. Entre sus impulsores están activistas provenientes de sectores críticos de Podemos en Andalucía y Madrid, corrientes políticas como IZAR, Clase contra Clase o el colectivo de Acción Anticapitalista, entre otros, así como militantes y activistas sociales independientes".
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