The Lega trotskista d'Italia of Trotskyist League of Italy is an Italian Trotskyist group. It is the Italian section of the
International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), or "Spartacist" tendency within international Trotskyism.
The Italian Spartacists came from two different organizational splits. One was formed in 1975 from dissidents of the
Revolutionary Marxist Fraction
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led by
Roberto Massari
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who announced the creation of a Spartacist Nucleus at the July 1975 European encampment of the international Spartacist tendency.
The other group had its origins in the
Gruppi Comunisti Rivoluzionari, the Italian party affiliated with the
United Secretariat of the Fourth International. This group left in 1976 in protest over the LCRs endorsement of the
Proletarian Democracy electoral coalition, which it regarded as a kind of
popular front. This group first called itself the Bolshevik-Leninist Group for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International. It adopted the name Trotkyist League of Italy in April 1978, bey which time it had absorbed the Spartacist Nucleus. It also attempted to unify with the
ex-Lambertist Bolshevik-Leninist Group of Italy
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, but nothing came of this.
The LTI grew closer to the international Spartacist tendency, sending a fraternal delegate to its first international conference in London in August 1979 and officially became its Italian sympathizing section in August 1980. Some members were not happy with this however. After the first conference they founded with International Proletarian Opposition within the LTI and in April 1980 left to form the Grupo Operaio Rivoluzionario por la rinascita della Quarta Internazionale.
[Alexander, Robert ''International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement'' Durham, Duke University Press 1991 p.597]
By the early 1980s the LTI was centered in
Milan where they published their monthly periodical ''Spartaco''.
References
External links
Archive of recent issues of ''Spartaco''
Trotskyist organisations in Italy
Political parties established in 1978
Communist parties in Italy
Far-left politics in Italy
Italy
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