RE: history of the Italian Communist Party

["Alex LoCascio" <alexlocascio@xxxxxxxx>]

http://www.iire.org/nsr_15-20.html#no15

>From the PCI to the PDS
Livio Maitan

IIRE Notebook for Study and Research no. 15 (48pp. ? 4, £2.50, $4)

In 1991 the Italian Communist Party completed its long process of 
social-democratization. For many years the PCI was proud of its 'communist 
identity' and even of its 'diversity' in the context of the national political 
system and the European left. For several decades it was not only the main 
force of the Italian workers' movement but also the biggest Communist party in 
the capitalist West. But at its last congress in Rimini it abandoned its 
historic name and took that of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). At the 
end of such an itinerary a balance sheet is necessary. In From the PCI to the 
PDS, Livio Maitan looks at some key moments in PCI history and underlines the 
problems and contradictions that prepared the conditions for its final turn.

Livio Maitan, born in Venice in 1923, has been active in the ltalian workers' 
movement since the beginning of the Second World War. A national organizer of 
the Socialist Youth at the Liberation, he broke with social democracy in 1947. 
Since 1991 he has been in the leadership of the Party of Communist 
Refoundation. He has taught sociology at the University of Rome and translated 
and introduced almost all the ltalian editions of Trotsky's writings. His works 
in English include Party, Army and Masses in China (1976).


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