The Internationalist Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Internazionalista, PCInt) is a

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party in

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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

Communist Party of Italy The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current ...

. The International Communist Party itself was founded in 1943 by

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and the group of revolutionaries around the journal ''Prometeo''. It denounced the

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as imperialist and took an active part in the strike wave that shook northern Italy at the end of 1943. In 1952 Amadeo Bordiga split the party to form his own International Communist Party. The basic positions of Battaglia Comunista were as follows: *

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and not

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was right on the national question. * The old Communist Parties (now fully Stalinised) were not centrist but bourgeois. * There was no hope of conquering the unions and that new strategies towards the daily class struggle would have to be evolved to connect the daily struggle of the class to the longer term struggle for communism. * The

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was not a neither-nor society but state capitalist. * There could be no substitution of the party for the class as a whole. The party initiated a series of conferences of the communist left in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 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.Internationalist Communist Tendency
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Election results

Constituent Assembly

Chamber of Deputies

References

External links

Official website

Battaglia Comunista Facebook page

Battaglia Comunista Twitter page

Fondo: Stefanini Mauro Partito comunista internazionalista
{{Left communism Bordigism Left communist organizations Luxemburgism Communist parties in Italy Far-left politics