To organize mass struggle in times of the “third period”: The Revista Comunista of the Comintern South American Secretariat (1930-1932)

Abstract

Created in 1925, the South American Secretariat was one of the few regional structures that integrated the organizational machinery promoted by the Communist International to coordinate actions of international communism. In September of 1930, the Secretariat began to publish their theory bulletin: Revista Comunista. It provided diagnoses related to each of the South America communist parties, as well as to the varying national situations in which they were to operate. In this sense, a reinstatement of those interpretive lines of current reality is relevant to deepen and analyse as a problem the understanding of the development of South American communism during the so-called “third period”.

Keywords

• revista comunista
• internacional comunista
• secretariado sudamericano
• tercer período
• lucha de clases