Isnt it a self-contradiction to work inside the traditional and corporative trade unions?
No, it isnt, simply because at the moment no other kind of trade union (that is non corporative and non traditional labour organizations) can exist. Communists have always been for the unity of workers movement and they have always promoted union demands in working contexts. So they have always taken part in the union activities (even clandestinely, where necessary), fighting against any reactionary aspect of the existing trade unions and trying to influence the proletarians. Modern trade unions have irreversibly become an integral part of the bourgeois State, and they undoubtedly play a main role in the whole capitalistic system, but their contradiction is that they cannot avoid to defend, in some way, the life conditions of the working class, even if their only purpose is not losing their control on them. We are also absolutely contrary to the formation of trade unions on an homogeneous ideological basis (communist, catholic, anarchic, etc.), as somebody still asserts: any direct org
