Workers' Revolutionary Current


The Workers' Revolutionary Current is a Trotskyist group in Spain.

History

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; 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 and establishing themselves as their Spanish section under the name Class against Class. 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. They participated actively in the general strikes of 2012 in that country, supported the strike of the Panrico bakery workers in Barcelona, the workers' struggle at the Santa Perpetua Coca-Cola factory, the struggle of the hoteliers grouped in the platform Las Kellys and the strike of the Movistar workers. After a period of organic growth, Class against Class held an extraordinary conference and there resolved to change its name to Workers' Revolutionary Current. The CRT publishes Contracorriente, first as a monthly bulletin, later 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. The ARNP maintains a strong presence in Barcelona and Zaragoza, being part of the student movement of those cities, and pushes the Left Student Union. The CRT currently is pushing the initiative No Hay Tiempo que Perder to regroup the anti-capitalist left and expelled dissidents of Podemos.