Corriente Roja

Corriente Roja
Catalan nameCorrent Roig
Galician nameCorrente Vermella
LeaderÁngel Luis Parras
Founded2002 (2002)
HeadquartersMadrid
IdeologyCommunism[1]
Trotskyism
Internationalism
Feminism
Eco-socialism[2]
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationUnited Left (2002–2004)
InternationalInternational Workers' League - Fourth International (since 2012)
ColorsRed  
Website
corrienteroja.net

Corriente Roja (lit.'Red Current' or 'Red Stream'; abbrev. CR) is a Spanish Trotskyist political organization, adhering to the International Workers League – Fourth International in 2012. CR defends and supports social struggles, class independence and political gains of the working class in order to establish a republic of workers. CR proposes the construction of a socialist economy, based on workers' democracy and the traditions of the alternative labor movement. According to its mission statement, current Red describes itself as follows:

Corriente Roja will put in place a strategy defined by its anticapitalist Marxist character, radically democratic, internationalist, ecologist and feminist

The organization is present in Madrid, Seville and Catalonia, and has some members in Galiza. In Catalonia Corriente Roja is called Corrent Roig, while in Galiza it is called Corrente Vermella.