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| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|5|13}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kishinev]], [[Russian Empire]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|12|20|1907|5|13}}<br />
| death_place = [[Paris]]<br />
| other_names = Marc Laverne, MC<br />
| known_for = One of the founders of the [[International Communist Current]]<br />
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'''Marck Chirik''' (May 13, 1907 – December 20, 1990), also known as '''Marc Laverne''' or simply '''MC''', was a communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the [[International Communist Current]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
Chirik was born into the family of a [[rabbi]]. He had witnessed the [[October Revolution]] with his brother at the age of ten. His family moved to Palestine where he became an early member of the [[Communist Party of Palestine]]'s youth organization in 1922 but was later expelled because he disagreed with the positions of the [[Communist International]] on the [[national question]], which supported the Arab national movements.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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He emigrated to France, where he joined the [[French Communist Party]] before being expelled at the same time as the members of the [[Left Opposition]]. He became a member first of the ([[Trotskyist]]) [[Ligue Communiste]] and then of [[Union Communiste]], which he left in 1938 to join the [[Italian Fraction]] of the [[International Communist Left]] (ICL), since he agreed with the latter’s position on the [[Spanish Civil War]] against that of Union Communiste. During the war and the [[German occupation of France during World War II|German occupation of France]], the ICL’s International Bureau led by Vercesi considered that there was no purpose in the fractions’ continuing their work. He however pushed for the reconstitution of the Italian Fraction around a small nucleus in Marseille. He joined the [[Fraction Française de la Gauche Communiste Internationale]] which had been formed in 1943 and was close to [[Amadeo Bordiga]]. However, he split with the Bordigist tendency in May 1945, when he opposed the decision of the Italian Fraction’s conference to dissolve the fraction, its militants joining the recently formed [[International Communist Party|Partito Comunista Internazionalista]] as individuals and formed [[Gauche Communiste de France]].<ref name=":0">[https://en.internationalism.org/ir/065/marc-01 Marc Chirik (Part 1): From the Revolution of October 1917 to World War II]</ref><br />
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After Gauche Communiste de France dissolved in 1952 he left France for [[Venezuela]] in anticipation of World War III. He stayed there until 1968, developing a small current of revolutionaries in a group called [[Internationalism (Venezuela)]], then returned to France, where he and some of his Venezuelan recruits launched [[Revolution Internationale]] (RI), the only French [[left communist]] group after 1968 that attempted to systematically build an organization in the shadow of the larger left communist groups.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hempel|first=Pierre|title=Marc Laverne et la Gauche Communiste de France, Tome 1|year=1993|publisher=Châtillon|location=France|pages=492}}</ref><br />
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In 1975, the [[International Communist Current]] was founded by [[Revolution Internationale]] (France), [[World Revolution (UK)]], [[Internationalism (politics)|Internationalism]] (USA), [[Rivoluzione Internazionale]] (Italy), [[Internationalism (Venezuela)]] and [[Accion Proletaria]] (Spain). Chirik had been a leading member of two of these groups and he became a very important militant of the ICC until his death in 1990.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hempel|first=Pierre|title=Marc Laverne et la Gauche Communiste de France, Tome 2|year=1998|publisher=Châtillon|location=France|pages=492}}</ref><ref>[https://en.internationalism.org/ir/066/marc-02 Marc Chirik (Part 2): From World War II to the present day]</ref><br />
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Marc Chirik is one of the main characters in ''World Without Visas'', a novel by [[Jean Malaquais]] that takes place in Marseille during the Second World War.<ref>{{cite book |last=Malaquais|first=Jean|title=Planète sans Visa|year=1999|publisher=Phébus|location=France|isbn=978-2-85940-579-3|pages=556}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[https://www.internationalism.org ICC Website]<br />
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