Internationalist Communist Party (Italy)

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Internationalist Communist Party
Partito Comunista Internazionalista
Founded1943
Split fromPCI
Succeeded byInternational Communist Party
NewspaperBattaglia Comunista
IdeologyLeft communism
Anti-Stalinism
Proletarian internationalism
International affiliationInternationalist Communist Tendency
Website
http://www.leftcom.org/it

The Internationalist Communist Party (

left communist party in Italy
and an affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency, formerly the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party.

Overview

The origins of the party can be traced back to the Left Fraction which, between 1921-6, held a majority within the

Second World War as imperialist and took an active part in the strike wave that shook northern Italy at the end of 1943.[2] In 1952 Amadeo Bordiga split the party to form his own International Communist Party.[3]

The basic positions[4] of Battaglia Comunista were as follows:

The party initiated a series of conferences of the communist left in the late 1970s and early 1980s.[5] As a result of these, in 1983 they established the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party (later renamed as the Internationalist Communist Tendency) with the British Communist Workers' Organisation.[6]

Election results

Constituent Assembly

Election Votes % Seats
1946 24,644 0.10 0

Chamber of Deputies

Election Votes % Seats
1948 20,736 0.08 0

See also

Further reading

  • Battaglia Comunista, Partito Comunista Internazionalista (2013), 1943-2013. Settant'anni contro venti e maree (in Italian), Prometeo
  • Damen, Onorato (2016), Bordiga Beyond the Myth, Prometheus Publications
  • Saggioro, Sandro (2010), Né con Truman né con Stalin: Storia del Partito Comunista internazionalista (1942-1952) (in Italian), Colibrì
  • Roger, Michel (2012), Les années terribles (1926-1945). La Gauche italienne dans l'émigration, parmi les communistes oppositionnels (in Italian), Éditions Ni patrie ni frontières

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