Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista)

The Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) (also known as the PCInt, from its Italian name: Partito Comunista Internazionalista) is a left communist party in Italy and an affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency, formerly the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party.

P.C. Internazionalista (Battaglia Comunista)
Founded1943
NewspaperBattaglia Comunista
IdeologyLeft communism
Anti-Stalinist left
Proletarian internationalism
International affiliationInternationalist Communist Tendency
Website
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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.[1] The International Communist Party itself was founded in 1943 by Onorato Damen and the group of revolutionaries around the journal Prometeo. It denounced 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:

  • Rosa Luxemburg and not Lenin 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 USSR was not a neither-nor society but state capitalist.
  • There could be no substitution of the party for the class as a whole.

Battaglia Comunista 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

Italian Parliament
Constituent Assembly
Election year Votes % Seats
1946 24,420 0.11
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Chamber of Deputies
Election year Votes % Seats
1948 20,736 0.08
–

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

References
  1. We Defend the Italian Left
  2. The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance - Arturo Peregalli
  3. The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History
  4. The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History
  5. Philippe Bourrinet (2000). The "Bordigist" Current (1912-1952). p. 332-3.
  6. Internationalist Communist Tendency
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