The Internationalist Communist Union (in French, Union Communiste Internationaliste) is an international grouping of Trotskyistpolitical parties, centred on Lutte Ouvrière in France.
Other parties in the international tendency include Combat Ouvrier in Martinique and Guadeloupe, The Spark in the United States and Workers' Fight in Britain. There is also a grouping of African militants living in France, a group in the Côte d'Ivoire named the UATCI, a Turkish group and a group in Haiti.
Communists are resolute opponents of imperialist war and must mobilise and lead the masses in the fight against preparations for a third world war which would be the greatest crime committed in the history of mankind.
Communists must take into account the possibility that many of these countries may be dragged into the imperialist war according to the position these countries have in relation to the different imperialist blocs.
Communist parties must consider the various concrete situations that might arise in the midst of such an imperialist war and develop their thinking in relation to these situations.
Workers' Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the CommunistUnion (Trotskyist) (UnionCommuniste (Trotskyste)), a French Trotskyist political party, is known (technically, it is the name of the weekly paper edited by the party).
It is a member of the InternationalistCommunistUnion.
This activity could be dangerous as this was still a period when the Communist Party of France (PCF) retained its hegemonic position within the workers movement in France and they would at times make efforts to physically prevent the distribution by VO of its bulletins.