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The Popular Front: the Deadest of Dead-End Strategies | New Politics » Jun 19, 2017 ...A few days ago, Paul Krehbiel—a member of the Committees of Correspondence , an organization with roots in a split from the Communist Party USA in ...to the disasters of the Popular Front in Spain, Chile, Indonesia...not to mention the " Salerno Turn" which led Palmiro Togliatti's Italian Communist Party to... Newpol.org

The Lost Partisans » Apr 25, 2016 ...Indeed, if the CLN parties governed Italy in coalition after liberation — together drafting a constitution and founding a republic — by May 1947 Cold War ...As justice minister in 1946, the Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti had issued a sweeping amnesty applying even to fascists, in order to pacify social... Jacobinmag.com

Amadeo Bordiga and the myth of Antonio Gramsci » When I began this commentary, both the USSR and the PCI (the Italian Communist Party) had disappeared. .....Gramsci and Amadeo Bordiga, for one last debate before the Italian anti-fascists whom I remember from before ....would deal with the shades of a Giuseppe Berti, Ruggiero Grieco and a Palmiro Togliatti . The. Libcom.org

A Heretic, Not a Splitter » Oct 7, 2015 ...First attached to the Communist Party's clandestine organization in the period of the Spanish Civil War, the young cinema student pulled from the fascist student milieu received a grounding in the Popular Front politics of party leader Palmiro Togliatti. Togliatti's desire to place the PCI at the center of Italian... Jacobinmag.com

Assessing Togliatti » Mar 16, 2017 ...Assessing Togliatti. By: David Broder. Palmiro Togliatti helped build the Italian Communist Party into the envy of the European left. But just how ...This particularly owes to the sense that the independent “Italian road to socialism” pioneered by Stalin-era PCI leader Palmiro Togliatti and developed by his... Jacobinmag.com

Italy: The Temptation of Revisionism - Books & ideas » Jun 2, 2012 ...By June 1946, however, the “Togliatti amnesty” (named for Italian justice minister and Communist Party leader Palmiro Togliatti) allowed most fascists to escape unscathed. The neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) was founded on December 26, 1946, and in the 1948 elections sent six deputies to... Booksandideas.net

The Rise of Political Correctness » Nov 8, 2016 ...Gramsci co-founded Italy's Communist Party in 1921. In 1926, Mussolini jailed him. By the time he died eleven years later, he had composed twelve “prison notebooks.” In private correspondence, he criticized Stalin's literary judgment and deemed his attacks on Leon Trotsky “irresponsible and dangerous. Claremont.org

Italian Lessons » May 8, 2013 ...But what made the Italian Communist Party, so different than the Soviet monolith it followed and then sparred with? Though he documents the Great War's disorienting effect on an ascending European workers' movement, the core of Magri's history starts in 1944, the year party boss Palmiro Togliatti... Jacobinmag.com

LEON TROTSKY: Fascism: What it is and how to fight it » Even more catastrophic than this disorienting of the workers was Stalin's famous dictum that, rather than being opposites, fascism and social democracy were .... Italian comrades inform me that, with the sole exception of Gramsci, the Communist Party would not even allow for the possibility of the fascists' seizing power. Marxists.org

Fascist art | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist » Aug 11, 2014 ...The empty space in his ideological universe was filled by the only political force that, in his view, in the Italy of 1943 to 1945, could bring about the revolution that Fascism had left unrealized, namely the renascent Italian Communist Party led by Palmiro Togliatti. And behind Togliatti there was the great... Louisproyect.org