Communists, coalitions, and the class struggle
(World News Austria)

One of the perennial debates in the world communist movement is on the issue of coalitions and united fronts: whether communists should participate in them, and if so, how and under what circumstances. A few parties, claiming the communist or Marxist-Leninist title, oppose participating in such cooperative structures. Most, however, taking off from Dimitrov`s 1935 report to the 7th Congress of the COMINTERN, in which he called for an end to self-isolating sectarianism and the building of people`s fronts against fascism and war, work hard to coordinate their tactics with other parties and organizations, including some which are not even part of the working class. Communist parties in power...