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Internationalist Communist Party

Partito Comunista Internazionalista
Internationalist Communist Party Partito Comunista Internazionalista
Founded	1943
Split from	PCI
Succeeded by	International Communist Party
Newspaper	Battaglia Comunista
Ideology	Left communism; Anti-Stalinism; Proletarian internationalism
International affiliation	Internationalist Communist Tendency
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Website
	http://www.leftcom.org/it
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The Internationalist Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Internazionalista, PCInt) is a 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 Communist Party of Italy.^[1] The Internationalist 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 neither a communist or socialist 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.^[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

References

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

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[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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 The '''Internationalist Communist Party''' ({{lang-it|Partito Comunista Internazionalista}}, '''PCInt''') is a [[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 [[Communist Party of Italy]].<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm We Defend the Italian Left]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://libcom.org/history/left-wing-opposition-italy-during-period-resistance-arturo-peregalli The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance - Arturo Peregalli]</ref> In 1952 [[Amadeo Bordiga]] split the party to form his own [[International Communist Party]].<ref>[https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2009-07-01/the-italian-communist-left-a-brief-internationalist-history The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History]</ref>
+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]].<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm We Defend the Italian Left]</ref> The Internationalist 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.<ref>[https://libcom.org/history/left-wing-opposition-italy-during-period-resistance-arturo-peregalli The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance - Arturo Peregalli]</ref> In 1952 [[Amadeo Bordiga]] split the party to form his own [[International Communist Party]].<ref>[https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2009-07-01/the-italian-communist-left-a-brief-internationalist-history The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History]</ref>
 The basic positions<ref>[https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2009-07-01/the-italian-communist-left-a-brief-internationalist-history The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History]</ref> of Battaglia Comunista were as follows:
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 * The old Communist Parties (now fully [[Stalinism|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 capitalism|state capitalist]].
+* The [[USSR]] was neither a communist or socialist society but [[State capitalism|state capitalist]].
 * There could be no substitution of the party for the class as a whole.
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 *{{Citation |first=Onorato |last=Damen |title=Bordiga Beyond the Myth |publisher=Prometheus Publications |year=2016|language=en}}
 *{{Citation |first=Sandro |last=Saggioro |title=Né con Truman né con Stalin: Storia del Partito Comunista internazionalista (1942-1952) |publisher=Colibrì |year=2010|language=it}}
-*{{Citation |first=Michel |last=Roger |title=Les années terribles (1926-1945). La Gauche italienne dans l’émigration, parmi les communistes oppositionnels |publisher=Éditions Ni patrie ni frontières |year=2012|language=it}}
+*{{Citation |first=Michel |last=Roger |title=Les années terribles (1926-1945). La Gauche italienne dans l'émigration, parmi les communistes oppositionnels |publisher=Éditions Ni patrie ni frontières |year=2012|language=it}}
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