Left Class Revolution
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Left Class Revolution Sinistra Classe Rivoluzione | |
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| Abbreviation | SCR |
| President | Claudio Bellotti |
| Secretary | Collective Secretariat |
| Split from | Communist Refoundation Party |
| Headquarters | Milano, Niguarda, via Paulucci de Calboli 4 |
| Newspaper | Rivoluzione! (in english: Revolution!) |
| Student wing | Alziamo La Testa (in english: Let's Raise Our Head!) |
| Ideology | Marxism Communism Trotskyism Revolutionary socialism |
| International affiliation | International Marxist Tendency |
| Slogan | "I filosofi hanno interpretato il mondo, è ora di trasformarlo" (in English: "The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various way, the point, however, is to change it.”) |
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| Party flag | |
| File:Bandiera di Sinistra Classe Rivoluzione (versione HD).jpg | |
| Website | |
| https://www.rivoluzione.red/ | |
Left Class Revolution (SCR) is an Italian Trotskyist political movement, branch in Italy of the International Marxist Tendency led by Alan Woods.
History[edit]
(complete history in the Italian article)
Until 2014 it was known as HammerSickle (in italian: Falcemartello), the same name as its theoretical journal. However, that year it changed its character, presenting itself as an autonomous political movement whose official organ is the monthly Revolution.
The first issue of FalceMartello came out in September 1986 as a newspaper of the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI) of Ferrara shortly before its militants were expelled from the Italian Communist Party (PCI). After the dissolution of the PCI, this group constituted for several years an important component of the left wing of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) on decidedly more radical positions with respect to the national line of the party and its youth organization (it defined itself as «the Marxist tendency in the PRC"). In early 2016, the Left Class Revolution officially exited the PRC.
There was another magazine in Italy in the sixties with the masthead HammerSickle (in italian: Falcemartello) and also with political positions close to Trotskyism, whose supporters were expelled from the PCI in 1966, which however has no connection with the one founded in the eighties and with Left Class Revolution.
Political Positions[edit]
The political positions of this group are based on the ideas of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, on the elaboration of the first four congresses of the Third International and on that branch of the Fourth International led in Great Britain by Ted Grant (who in 1960s and 1980s he represented with the Militant group active in the left of the Labor Party one of the two most significant political forces of the Trotskyist tradition in Europe). The characteristic ideas of this group are as follows:
- The defense of the validity of Marxist theory as reworked by the architects of the October revolution in opposition to both reformist theories or in any case moderate revisions of the ideas of Marx and Engels and Stalinism and what the group considers its variants (Maoism[1][2], Togliattism[3] and Titoism[4] ).
- The proposal of a political strategy of a revolutionary nature, aimed at transforming society in a socialist sense with the formation of a workers' democracy[5], also with regard to advanced capitalist countries. In the early years of the 21st century, FalceMartello gave particular emphasis to the development of struggle movements in Latin America and in particular in Venezuela under the government of Hugo Chávez (this group was the initiative to found the association in Italy Hands off Venezuela which deals with solidarity with the social and political process underway in Venezuela).[6]
- The refusal of class collaboration with forces considered to be an expression of the big bourgeoisie such as the center and right-wing parties. From this point of view, this group's criticism of the PRC's participation in L'Unione and its entry into the second Prodi government in 2006-2008 was radical, as was the previous criticism of the party's participation in the centre-left majority in the years 1996–1998. Since the formation of the Democratic Party (PD), the group has always opposed alliances (even locally) between the left and the Democratic Party.
- A strong accentuation of the need for communists to build a united front of the forces that refer to the workers' movement, including social democratic organizations as long as they are closely linked to social struggles and based on a program of advanced demands. However, this position has always been combined with a criticism of the proposed merger of the PRC with more moderate parties such as the Democratic Left or the Greens, such as the Rainbow Left. FalceMartello has also been very critical of the electoral cartel formation operations promoted by the leadership of the PRC under the secretaryship of Paolo Ferrero, such as the Communist-Anticapitalist List, the Federation of the Left, the Civil Revolution (in this case expressing an opposition in principle to close organizational relations with forces such as Italia dei Valori, unrelated to the history of the left) and L'Altra Europa with Tsipras to which the PRC joined in the 2014 European elections. The group emphasizes the need for unity of action in social struggles (demonstrations, trade union actions and so on), but not only: the proposals made by FalceMartello to the PRC leadership group aimed at creating the conditions for obtaining a coalition of the left (without the centre) that would apply to govern the country with "a program of social transformation". From the foundation of the Sinistra Classe Revolution political movement and in the years immediately preceding this position, this position was articulated as the need for the formation of an autonomous "class party" which would assume the government of the country.
- The Sickle-Hammer group attaches particular importance to the tactical ideas of the British Marxist Ted Grant,[7] who (also with the aim of avoiding the drifts of sectarianism that many attribute to the international Trotskyist movement) affirmed the importance for Trotskyists of building a lasting link with the organizations and mass movements of the working class, therefore with the main trade unions and parties of left. In particular, in application of this principle, the militants of this group were first part of the PCI, to pass after a short period in the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) in the ranks of the PRC, always placing themselves on left-wing positions within these forces.[8] From the union point of view, according to the same logic, the group is placed on the left of the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL) in the Giornate di Marzo area (previously with Rete 28 aprile and then Il Sindacato è un'Altra Cosa), where it counts some prominent exponents such as Mario Iavazzi in the National Executive of the Confederation and Paolo Brini in the Central Committee of the Federation of Metallurgical Workers Employees[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ Gravisi, Chiara. "Stalin, l'organizzatore di sconfitte - La rivoluzione cinese del 1925-1927". www.marxismo.net (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ Gravisi, Chiara. "La lunga marcia della Cina verso il capitalismo". www.marxismo.net (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ Gravisi, Chiara. "La lunga marcia della Cina verso il capitalismo". www.marxismo.net (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ Gravisi, Chiara. "La Quarta Internazionale e lo scontro Stalin-Tito". www.marxismo.net (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ rivoluzione (2016-10-14). "La democrazia che vogliamo". Rivoluzione (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ Giardiello, Alessandro. "I marxisti e Chavez". Falcemartello (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ Woods, Alan. "Ted Grant 1913 - 2006". Falcemartello (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ Giardiello, Alessandro. "200 numeri di Falcemartello". Falcemartello (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ↑ "Home". Giornate di Marzo (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
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