Comintern

The Comintern (Communist International, 1919–1943) was the international organization of communist parties founded under Soviet leadership to coordinate revolutionary activity worldwide. It played a central role in shaping Communist Party policy on race, colonialism, and party structure in the United States and elsewhere.

Claims that use this term

• The Comintern adopted self-determination to pre-empt a resurgence of Black nationalism.
• The Comintern conceived the Black struggle as an international sector of world anticolonialism.
• The Comintern forced America’s fragmented communist factions into a federated party.
• The Comintern rejected offensive theory in favor of winning mass support
• The Comintern sought to convert Black race-consciousness into class-consciousness