To this very day, the Italian Communist Left (‘sinistra italiana’) is still unknown — and is even misrepresented — in the very countries where it emerged and to which it spread through the immigration of its militants.

In the last issue of the Bulletin d’Information de la Fraction de Gauche Italienne (February 1933), Vercesi wrote: “...the victory of fascism in Germany marks a break in the revolutionary course which appeared in 1917, and which could have ended in the triumph of the world proletariat. This victory also marks a turning towards the capitalist outcome of the present situation: towards war.”

The period between 1936 and 1939 was marked by the definitive consolidation of military preparations, and by the extension of conflicts in Asia and Europe. Even more than the Sino-Japanese conflict, the war in Spain was to serve as a testing ground for the latest weapons - the weapons that were to be used in the World War 2.

We reply here to the Controversies blog, which has devoted itself to the noble cause of trying to discredit the ICC through lies, slanders and evasions.

When the war broke out in September 1939, the Italian and Belgian Fractions found themselves totally disarmed. The International Bureau hardly existed any more, and contacts between the different sections and fractions had virtually ceased.

1)  The Party is a fraction of the proletariat. In the epoch of proletarian revolutions, the party in effect expresses the proletariat’s consciousness and political capacity during a period of revolutionary flux in which the problem of power is directly posed.

It will soon be five years that imperialist war has raged in Europe, with all its misery, massacres and devastation.

On the Russian, French and Italian fronts tens of millions of workers and peasants are slaughtering each other for the exclusive interests of a sordid and bloody capitalism, which obeys only these laws: profit, accumulation.

In the first part of this article, we showed that the self-styled “Lenin of ecology”, Andreas Malm, is in fact defending a completely bourgeois conception of this question, and in reality serves as an agent of state capitalism, which he aims to propagate to the working class. In this second part, we will show how much his approach is based on a fundamental distortion of the marxist vision of the capitalist mode of production and its relationship with nature.

Saturday 5 April 2025, 2pm to 5pm, UK time

Continuing to analyse and discuss an accelerating world situation. All welcome - translation facilities will be available!