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Antonio Gramsci was a leader of the Italian Communist Party in its early days, when it was a real revolutionary party, and is now famous for the Prison Notebooks he wrote when jailed by Italy’s fascist regime between 1926 and just before his death in 1937. In this new collection of his letters from between when he was 17 and living away from home in order to study for entrance to university, and his jailing in 1926, the longest section is from just six months, between December 1923 and May 1924. Gramsci was then in Vienna, working with the Communist International (Comintern) to construct a new...

A letter to the British Trotskyists, 2 October 1933. The British Trotskyists were then a small group recently emerged from the Communist Party. The Independent Labour Party had been the main precursor of the Labour Party, and then, as an affiliated group within the Labour Party, the main bulk of Labour's individual activist base. In 1932, after conflict with the Labour leadership, the ILP disaffiliated. ILP membership, which had stood at 17,000 in 1932, plummeted to just 4,000 in 1935, but there was also left-wing ferment within the ILP. Trotsky favoured arguing within the ILP for an...

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Letters and debate from WL 37: What is state-capitalism? Yes, but what is the revolutionary party for? Download PDF Reviews: Springtime for Eva and Argentina Blair: a suitable case for treatment? Not yet the brackets

Section on working class politics in Europe Download PDF Articles: Europe: The workers against mainstream politics (Hugh Jenkins) Blair plans a coup against party democracy The alternative Europe (Ken Coates MEP) What real reformists think of Blair (Anne Mack) Debate: Should we call for a workers' government?

Conditions in the USA are now in many ways favourable to to a 3rd party based on the unions. Download PDF