Building new parties of the left

• Turn the page, write a new book

  22 April, by Flavio C.

  In discussions about building anti-capitalist parties the Italian example is frequently quoted particularly in relation to Rifondazione Comunista [RC or PRC (Communist Refoundation Party)] and the eventual failure of its political project. For a fuller discussion and a more precise approach to the situation it would be good to also consider the present crisis of the Italian section. There is a crisis of its leadership and of its political perspectives. This short document aims to be a contribution to a better understanding of these events especially at an international level and has no pretension at absolute truth.

• The crisis of the radical left and the recent debate in Sinstra Critica

  22 April, by Gippò Mukendi Ngandu , Francesco Locantore

  The crisis of the Italian far left has accelerated in the last year and a half. After the 15 October 2011 demonstration, which ended with a violent repression by the police and a devastating debate among the promoting organizations, the fragmentation of the radical left and its inability to answer in a credible way the popular discontent produced by the European austerity policies, have increased.

• Building the LPP

  4 March, by Farooq Tariq

  This is a compilation of several previously-published articles, prepared for the Fourth International International Committee’s discussion on "New Parties of the Left" in March 2013, for which Pakistan was one of the "case studies".

• The experience of building DS and the PT, from 1979 to the first Lula government

  28 May 2012, by João Machado

  João Machado was a leader of DS throughout the period in question. This text draws on parts of a written contribution to the Seminar dedicated to Daniel Bensaid, held at the IIRE in January 2012. However, Bensaid’s role in DS’s discussions was not singled out just for that reason – he really played a crucial part, especially in the later period.

• Starting anew with the Left Bloc

  4 April 2012, by Alda Sousa, Jorge Costa

  This article was first published in the book "New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe" from Resistance Books in 2011.

• A Failed Refoundation

  4 April 2012, by Salvatore Cannavò

  This text is the first and final chapters by the book of the same name ("La Rifondazione Mancate" published by Edizioni Allegre in 2009.

• The Red-Green Alliance in Denmark

  17 October 2011, by Michael Voss

  This contribution outlining the history of the Red-Green Alliance is taken from the book New Parties of the Left - Experiences from Europe published by Socialist Resistance (Britain) and the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam) in July 2011.

• An anti-capitalist left, incompatible with war and neoliberalism

  3 May 2008, by Salvatore Cannavò

  In the light of the Italian right’s big victory in the April 2008 elections, major debates about strategy are breaking out in the Italian left. Here we publish Cannavò’s speech to the December 2007 conference of Sinistra Critica.

• Revolutionary organisation and its relationship to building a broad left party

  16 January 2008, by David Packer

  When revolutionary Marxists engage in complex processes such as building broad left parties, with all the political pressures that entails, it is essential to reaffirm our long-term strategic objective of building a revolutionary party and its meaning for our practice today.

• Democratic Centralism and Broad Left Parties

  13 January 2008, by Socialist Resistance

  Since the beginning of the decade important steps have been made in rebuilding the left internationally, following the working class defeats of the ‘80s and ‘90s and the negative impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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