Lotta Comunista
It is a revolutionary and internationalist party founded by Arrigo Cervetto and Lorenzo Parodi in 1965 and inspired by the theory and practice of Marx, Engels, and Lenin.
It had been expelled from the Italian Communist Party (PCI) as a result of the position it had taken in favor of the 1956 Hungarian insurgents, who were harshly repressed by the Soviets.
In these crises, against the Stalinist, Maoist and Third Worldist positions, the priority political criterion to follow according to Lotta Comunista is the unity of the international proletariat[8].
The analysis conducted by Amadeo Bordiga in "Economic and Social Structure of Russia Today" is an important theoretical reference that Lotta Comunista, while not belonging to Bordigism, recognises.
The party points to the start of a "new partition", with Eastern Europe annexed to the EU and Moscow pushed back to its pre-Peter the Great borders.
A decisive effect of this caesura is, in Asia, the revival of Chinese capitalist development, which prepares the shift of the world centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin, as predicted by Marx[13].
Battle over the prospects of tradeunionism The post-war economic boom created a vast proletariat, concentrated mainly in the factories of the "industrial triangle" of northern Italy.
As with the "school crisis", the "prospects of tradeunionism" also offered space for Leninist tactics to root communist nuclei in the big factories.
The affair of the "35 days" at FIAT, the request for mass redundancies and then for the redundancy fund, the inability of the PCI - imprisoned in the maximalist chase with the trade union - to assess the real power relations, and finally the defeat marked by the "march of the forty thousand", forced the LC committee in Turin to make an effort of understanding that went beyond the trade union dimension alone, the offering ground for political and organisational growth[19].
Political battle over social change 1980s: the "multi-income family" - in which several incomes and assets are added up - becomes the most generalised form of "working-class aristocracy".
The concept of a "new strategic phase" since the 2000s (imperialist rise of China) is then linked to the identification of a "new political cycle" of "Atlantic decline" in Europe and America where, amplified by an advanced "demographic winter" in the old powers the ideologies of proprietary individualism (with its associated reactionary, securitarian and xenophobic connotations) "enter into oscillation", giving rise to "electoral revolts" that favour both working-class abstentionism and the "proprietary, petty-bourgeois vote" for right-wing and sovereignist populist parties.
So it is devoted only to peaceful propaganda of Marxist ideas, waiting for an event of global reach, like a world war, to start a revolution.
These events serve as platforms for dialogue, exchange of ideas, and collaboration on issues of common interest, such as anti-imperialism, class struggle, and socialist internationalism.
By hosting conferences, seminars, and other gatherings, Lotta Comunista helps foster solidarity among international leftist movements, promotes critical analysis of global political developments, and facilitates the sharing of experiences and strategies for revolutionary change.
Lotta Comunista has always rejected the idea that the Soviet Union, in its satellite countries and Asia, had achieved a form of communism or socialism.
The featured characteristic of state capitalism created by Stalin, over the savagery in the repression and espionage (particularly against the Bolsheviks' critics of Stalinist policy), was the autarchic closure that he justified by theorizing an imaginary division of the world market into two blocks.
Guido La Barbera, one of the current leaders of Lotta Comunista, said that Stalinism overcame an inherent weakness and chronic capital investing in war and heavy industry and not in developing economic and social infrastructure.
The purpose of Lotta Comunista is to entrench a Leninist party in some locales of key European cities, such as the Italian industrial triangle and the Ile de France in Paris.
Lotta Comunista Editions collects, publishes, and reproduces material produced since 1950 in the Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, and Greek languages.
Currently it is active in cities such as: Genoa, Milan, Pavia, Turin, London, Paris, Nice, Rome, Parma, Savona, Brescia, Bergamo, Padua, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Pisa, Naples, Udine, St. Petersburg, Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Bari, Brindisi, Lecce, Valencia, and Berlin.
Lotta Comunista publishes Italian texts that address the deepening and the history of the labor movement as well as classics of Marxism such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Lenin and Amadeo Bordiga.
In Genoa, Lotta Comunista established the Institute for the Study of Capitalism, with an extensive library including documents represented in several publications of the "Edizioni Panta Rei."
