Who are we?
We are not a party, not a fraction of any existing party, and not the embryo of an international. GICNA will act as a pre-party formation: a federated network of local communist circles in the United States, Canada and Mexico, organized around shared points of unity and dedicated to study, theoretical production, and the work of building communist organization where none currently exists.
The name registers honestly that the party does not exist locally, nationally, or internationally, and that pretending otherwise is purely aspirational and unproductive.
How Do we Operate?
FORM: GICNA is a federation of local chapters united by the points of unity. Each chapter is autonomous in its day-to-day work but bound by the shared political principles and accountable to the federation through its representative in the Signal coordinating chat.
CHAPTERS: A chapter is a local circle of comrades meeting regularly in person to read, discuss, write, and coordinate. Chapters set their own meeting cadence, reading pace, and local priorities, subject only to the points of unity and to the federation’s shared curriculum
Each chapter designates one lead. The lead is the chapter’s representative in the Signal group and the point of contact for federation-wide coordination. Chapters may rotate the lead role internally however they wish.
CHAPTER ADMISSION: Prospective chapters are admitted on the following basis:
They read alongside the federation for a minimum of three months, working through the current curriculum stage with their existing or prospective members
They demonstrate alignment with the points of unity through participation in discussion
An existing chapter sponsors them
Admission is by consensus of the Signal chat; failing consensus, by two-thirds majority
Points of Unity
Central to our organizational cohesion is our points of unity, a short list of principles drafted based off of the communist programme, in order to guide each autonomous chapter in its work towards the goals of the national organization, and the aims of the communist movement more broadly.