Organizations associated with Communist International (c. 2024)
Young Communist International (Youthintern)
Founded: 1921
Dedicated to organizing the youth sections of Comintern parties. Originally meant to ensure internal discipline and loyalty from young communist parties, during the 1960's, it became more focused on building more independent student driven political movements and educating young people in political participation.
Prominent members:
UASR: All-Union Student League for Industrial Democracy
USSR: All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol)
FSRD: Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organization (Pionierorganisation Ernst Thälmann)
DB: Young Red Front (Junge Rotfront)
North Italy: Italian Communist Youth Federation
South Italy: Red Youth Brigades
Mexico: Federation of Young Communists
FBU: Communist Youth League
Zhōnghuá: Chinese Democratic Students League
Nippon: Levellers Youth League of Nippon
Choson: Socialist Youth League
India: All-Indian Youth Federation
EAF: Socialist Youth Union
Australasia: Eureka Youth League
Brazil: Socialist Youth Union
Congo: Patrice Lumumba National Youth Federation
Iran: United Democratic Youth Organization
Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern)
Formed: 1920
Dedicated towards organizing and supporting communist affiliated labor unions, and maintaining focus on anti-imperialist struggles and internationally minded strikes.
Prominent affiliates:
The Americas: Pan-American Industrial Workers Unity League (merger of the Trade Union Unity League and the Confederation of Latin American Trade Unions)
East/South Asia: Pan-Asian Trade Union Secretariat (formerly the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat)
West Asia/MENA: Lower Eurasian Labor Federation
Europe: Pan-European Labor Alliance (formerly the London, Paris, Berlin, and Bulgarian Bureaus)
Africa: Pan-African Trade Union Committee (formerly the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers)
Red Sports International (Sportsintern)
Formed: 1921
Dedicated towards maintaining worker focused sports bodies, standardizing physical fitness standards and rules for international sporting (within Comintern and affiliate parties), and organizing international sports competitions amongst workers parties and nations. Famous for holding the "Spartakaids" as counterprogramming to the Olympics, and ironically, also being the main Olympic Committee for Comintern nations.
Prominent Bureaus:
Baseball International
Basketball International
Rugby International
Football International (Soccer)
Congress for American Football (Gridiron)
International Committee for Red Ice Hockey
International Association for the Spartakaids and Olympics
Red Gymnastics
Red eSports
International Red Aid (MOPR)
Formed: 1922
Successor to (assumed the function of) the International Relief Association (founded 1931) in 1950
Successor to (assumed the function of) the International Emergency Rescue Committee (founded 1936) in 1950
Originally meant as a counterbalance to the International Red Cross, providing aid and support for besieged communist organizations and activists around the world, has expanded its focus starting in the 1950's to helping oppressed peoples around the world, providing legal aid to political prisoners, and sending volunteer aid workers and doctors to devastated locations around the world. Famed for their "Red Care" packages to areas in need, and delivering livestock and other farm animals to countries ravaged by the World Revolutionary War through people and ships that became known as "seagoing cowboys".
Criticised for working with charities in capitalist nations in their mission, including the Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB Project) that aims to improve the speed, effectiveness and delivery of response programs.
Medicine Without Borders (MWB)
Formed: 1971
Branch of Red Aid focused on delivering medicine and proper medical care "without borders". Made specifically in response to famines in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Burma and the need for specialised medical aid. Rose to prominence due to the widespread famine and devastation from conflicts in the 80's. Considered one of the premier world charities, with their presence often noted in various conflict or disaster areas.
World Education, Science, Culture, Environmental and Peace Organization (WESCEPO)
Formed: 1991
Successor to the World Peace Council (1949–91)
Successor to the Alliance for Earth (1976–91)
Dedicated towards advocating for "world peace", often with a focus on cultural, scientific, and environmental cooperation between various communist organizations. Often works to protect landmarks, build up local arts and science institutions, and promote sustainable tourism practices (including protections against overtourism and protecting locals from exploitation) Seen as a deliberate response to UNESCO, with some criticizing its open political advocacy, while others praise its more constructive, localised approach to cooperation.
International League Against Sex and Gender Oppression (ILASGO)
Formed: 1997
Successor to the Communist Womens' International (CWI, 1920–97)
Successor to the International Congress of Gender and Sexual Minorities (COGSMIN, 1971–97)
Dedicated to opposing all forms of patriarchal and heteronormative oppression, as well as to combating sexual abuse and ensuring reproductive rights, bodily autonomy and sexual health. Formed following reorganization in response to the overlapping functions of the CWI, formed in the early days of the Comintern, and the COGSMIN, established under the French communist Daniel Guerin in 1971 in response to the rising recognition of oppression against USAT+ individuals across the communist bloc. All the womens' and queer wings of communist parties are considered affiliates of the organization.
World League Against Prejudice (WLP)
Formed: 1947
Successor to the League Against Imperialism (1927–1947)
Successor to the Jewish Anti-Discrimination League of the Communist International (1933–1947)
Dedicated to opposing all forms of racial, ethnic and religious oppression across the world. Initially, the Jewish Anti-Discrimination League was formed in response to the rise of Hitlerism in Germany and the high incidence rate of antisemitism in Central Europe, initially consisting of various Jewish political organizations across the TCI (such as the Jewish-American Labour Bund).
In the aftermath of the Global Anti-Fascist War, the JADL was reorganised and merged with the preexisting League Against Imperialism to form the WLP to bring attention to, and combat all forms of racism and discrimination across the world, such as Indian caste discrimination, discrimination against indigenous peoples in Latin America, and Angevin discrimination against Africans.
Red Peasants International (Krestintern)
Formed: 1923
Dedicated to supporting workers in agricultural fields, with a focus on decolonization and backing local socialist parties, as well as building international standards for food and agriculture across the world. Originally dedicated to building relationships with peasant parties in China and Eastern Europe, gradually shifted its focus to anti-imperialism, with a focus on Africa, India, and South America. Has mainly supported Zapatismo organizations within that particular sphere in recent decades and has provided aid such as farming equipment and crops. Internally, they focus on standardizing nutrition and ensuring farming practices are up to date and beneficial.
International Transportation and Standardization Bureau (ITSB)
Formed: 1950 (as the "Rail, Air, and Water Bureau")
Reorganised in 1974 as ITSB
Dedicated towards rationalizing safety and infrastructure standards, as well as proper use of units within time systems and transportation, and coordinating investigations between members of the Comintern and affiliated parties with regards to civilian transportation accidents and incidents. Produces an annual series of reviews to ensure units of measurement (using the "kilogram-meter-second" version of the metric system). A series of infamous aviation disasters in the First Detente led to its reorganization into its current iteration.
International Collective of Automakers (ICA)
Formed: 1953
Transferred to ITSB: 1974
One notable sub-bureau of the ITSB being the International Collective of Automakers, established in 1953 as the main collective research and production association of automotive innovation in the TCI, following the adoption of the 1947 Detroit Plan at the Congress of the Communist International, and further expanded with the 1961 'Moonshot' Project jointly undertaken by the United Republics, Czechoslovakia, and Free Socialist Germany.
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA)
Formed: 1950
Successor of the Global Motorsports Club (1934-1941)
Founded as a sanctioning body for motorsport racing in 1950, the IMSA was intended to serve as a way to revitalise the American motorsports scene following WWII with standardised rulesets and specs.
It would quickly expand as Czechoslovakia became a motoring giant in the 50s and 60s, and subsequently receive attention and backing from most of the TCI's automotive development houses during the Moonshot Project.
It serves as a de facto competitor to and affiliate of the FIA and FIM, with the FIA in particular often following IMSA's lead in certain matters, with the Silhouette-Production Car split following the collapse of Group B Rallying as an often cited example.
One notable controversy was when the World Endurance Championship shifted over to IMSA's Sanctioning for the 1994 season, following the Maggieham scandal of 1992 and the cancellation of the 1993 season.
International Standards Organization (ISO)
Formed: 1935 under COMECON
Transferred to ISTB: 1974
This organization was founded under the auspices of the Treaty of Leningrad as a subsidiary of the COMECON to develop and publish international standards in technical and nontechnical fields, including everything from manufactured products and technology to food safety, agriculture, and healthcare.
Council for Mutual Economic and Technological Assistance (COMETA)
Formed: 1983
Successor to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) (formed 1935)
Successor to the International Technology Council (ITC) (formed 1965)
De facto global economic planning agency of the Communist International. Dedicated to maintaining the standards of economic planning across various nations, maintaining supply chains, balancing supply and demand, keeping credits consistent, and monitoring new technologies. Also, through its subgroups CIDF and CITC, provides grants to struggling nations and maintains both intra- and inter-bloc currency exchange. Publishes reports on the effects of technology and the potential utility of new technology, releasing guidelines on standardization of these new technologies which are formalised by their respective industrial organizations and thereafter adopted by individual state planning bureaus.
Communist International Development Fund (CIDF)
Formed: 1935
Subordinated to COMETA in 1991
Founded by the Treaty of Leningrad, its initial task is to extend credit to Comintern states for economic development, provide emergency aid to the same, and to supervise international finance between them. It was funded by a combination of mandatory and voluntary deposits from all contributing states while also serving as a lender of last resort for all Comintern central banks. It may also choose, under extraordinary circumstances, to forgive outstanding obligations owed by specific members.
It also supervised the fixed-exchange rates pegged to the UASR dollar on terms set out by the 1935 Leningrad Treaty and by the 1943 Detroit Conference, where the initial ideas that led to the "Arduous March" were hatched by the representatives of America, Zhonghua, and the Soviet Union.
Each contributing member state has a delegation to its central body, the Congress of the CIDF, which elects a nine-member Executive Committee. The Congress also serves as a watchdog and sets broader policy which is carried out by the Executive Committee.
By the time of the World Revolutionary War, the CIDF's role drastically expanded from a relatively modest body acting as an international clearinghouse to a major source of finance for the entire Comintern.
Since the bloc's transition to lower-stage communism by the 1990s, it has exercised the exclusive right to authorise the issuance of the TCI labor vouchers and set their expiration dates, or approve the volume of their issuance by other central and member banks. It also issues transferable certificates of credit to AFS companies, which they can sell in currency markets for other currencies, or to get vouchers for use to buy Comintern exports.
Common International Trade Council (CITC)
Formed: 1942
Subordinated into the CIDF in 1947
Transferred to COMETA in 1991
Initially formed to control the allocation of Lend-Lease aid to the Franco-British Union, this organization deals with economic relations between the Comintern and the AFS on a global stage, coordinating with countries, collectives, and businesses from both blocs to facilitate Comintern entry into AFS markets and vice-versa.
Has been accused of favoritism for one side or the other, notably by the Wall government of the FBU.
Council for Computational Machine Standards (CCMS)
Formed: 1947
Subordinated to COMETA in 1985
An institutional bureau of the Communist International formed primarily by American and Soviet computational technology research groups in the aftermath of the creation of ENIAC in 1946 and the subsequent development of Project Athena.
The CCMS was primarily responsible for the proliferation of the "Bell Labs Standard" for the development of mainframe computer systems, the Multics operating system (and subsequent derivatives such as Multix and Berkeley Multix/BMX), both of which saw widespread adoption in academic, industrial and commercial environments. Subsequent personal computer standards were also established by the CCMS beginning with the release of the "Machine Standard for Exchange" (MSX) standard in 1975 and the Consolidated Workstation Standard (CWS) in 1980.
While at first very defensive of their autonomy within the Communist International (such as their refusal to disband and merge with the ITC outright in the 1960s), by the mid-1980s, in anticipation of the proliferation of Scalable Processor Architectures and the implementation of wider state-planning during the transition away from market economics, the CCMS was formally moved under the purview of the COMETA ("Council for Mutual Economic and Technological Assistance", see above) which had been founded two years prior.
Cybersyn Architecture Board (CAB)
Formed: 1975
Subordinated to the International Technology Council (1975-1983)
Subordinated to COMETA in 1983
It provides architectural oversight of Cybersyn network protocols and procedures, managing Cybersyn standards documents as well as addressing appeals over CETF standards decisions.
Cybersyn Engineering Task Force (CETF)
Formed: 1968
Subordinated to the newly created Cybersyn Architecture Board in 1975
Initially founded as an American government body associated with ARPANET but it was internationalised by its merger with the Soviet Union's Automated State System of Economic Management/National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing (OGAS), becoming what became known as Project Cybersyn.
It soon became a working group that proposes standards related to the Internet protocol suite.
It is also known for introducing innovations like the Reverse Address Resolution Protocol, Distributed Channel Transport over IP, File Transfer Protocol and Telnet.
Cybersyn Assigned Numbers Authority (CANA)
Formed: 1972
Subordinated to the newly created Cybersyn Architecture Board in 1975
Known as the "root manager" of the Cybersyn zone of the Internet, it is responsible for the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Cybersyn network. It also handles DNS root zone registries, root name servers and Internet Address pools. It also handles the assignment of IP address blocks to regional registries under their own regional working groups.
It oversees Cybersyn-zone IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System, media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and Internet numbers. It is also known for handling and maintaining the "CANA time zone database".
International Liaison Department (OMS)
Formed: 1921
Widely considered the Comintern's intelligence agency, dedicated to (secretly) providing aid and structural support to communist parties and groups within capitalist nations. Officially the "liaisons" between Comintern and local parties, they provide direction and techniques for groups to more effectively push against their capitalist governments, as well as keep the group cohesive and ensure that they can escape any government persecution. Most active in hot spots and officially neutral nations, where they can also provide weapons and intelligence against the enemy. Most associated with spies and double agents within capitalist nations.
Joint Revolutionary Military Council (JRMC)
Formed: 1942 as a non-Comintern organization
Subordinated to ECCI during the 1950 World Congress
Supreme command organ of the International Revolutionary Armed Forces (INTREV), including the Revolutionary International Volunteer Army (RIVA). Presided over by the Chairperson of the JRMC, who is a member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. Membership includes the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chairperson of the RIVA Command Council, the Chairperson of COMETA, and representatives from multiple international military-economic, intelligence, and security organizations.
The JRMC only meets twice a year or so, typically to discuss and finalise changeovers in the command of the INTREV Regional Commands and their subordinate Groups of Forces. The exception is when all-Comintern military coordination is necessary - the last time this function of the JRMC was activated was the Comintern interventions in the Azanian Bush War, Indonesian Civil War, and the Crescent Crisis.
The JRMC is also referred to as the World-Stavka, International Stavka, or simply Stavka, a reference to the Global Anti-Fascist War military coordination organization between the WFRA and RKKA.
Administrative Committee for Liberated International Territories (ACLIT)
Formed: 1945 as the "Commissariat for the Administration of JDPON"
Reorganised in 1958 as "Administrative Committee for Liberated International Territories"
Formed as an informal communist successor to the League of Nations Trustee System and as a response to the formation of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, ACLIT was formed in 1945 in the anticipation of the establishment of Comintern occupation governments in Germany, Italy, Japan and other Axis nations.
The formation of JDPON-Germany in 1946 was the first territory to be administered by the TCI organ that would become ACLIT.
In 1958, the commissariat was disbanded and reformed into the Administrative Committee for Liberated International Territories– a catch-all administrative group for post-colonial country relations, common territories such as the pre-referendum Straits Territory, Antarctica, the cosmos, and any further JDPONs (such as JDPON-Albania and JDPON-Romania).
