Workers' Revolutionary Current

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.

"Class Against Class" redirects here. For the inter-war Communist political strategy, see Third Period.
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 positionLeft-wing
International affiliationTrotskyist Fraction – Fourth International[2]
Website
crtweb.org

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 publishes 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 the Agrupación Revolucionaria No Pasaran (Revolutionary Group "They Shall Not Pass" - ARNP). The ARNP maintains a strong presence in Barcelona and Zaragoza, being part of the student movement of those cities,[11] and pushes 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.[12]

gollark: That's an orthogonal issue, mostly.
gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;
gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.
gollark: "i will be respected here." implies EVERYONE, not just staff.

References
  1. Revista Contracorriente
  2. Clase contra Clase se fusiona con el agrupamiento internacional Fracción Trotskista
  3. (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. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  7. "Seis meses de la "ingobernable" huelga de Panrico | Clase contra Clase". 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  8. "Encuentro Panrico - Coca Cola | Clase contra Clase". 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.
  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. 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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