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. 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 Internacionalismo, 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. In 1975, the
International Communist Current was founded by
Revolution Internationale (France),
World Revolution (UK), 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. 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. == References ==