Italy - Split looms for Rifondazione Comunista

It seems a cast iron certainty that the left is going to walk out of Rifondazione Comunista this autumn. Here’s something I knocked out for the next SR.
“The left that is in goverment has completely broken its relationship with the social movements”. That is the verdict of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) parliamentarian Salvatore [...]

Left consolidates as Rifondazione Comunista moves right

This piece on what’s happening inside Rifondazione Comunista is for the next issue of Socialist Resistance. It throws up one or two knotty questions of principle and tactics.
Romano Prodi’s governing coalition was brought down following a vote in the Italian parliament in late February. Rifondazione Comunista senator and Fourth International supporter Franco Turigliatto abstained in [...]

Rifondazione Comunista tries to expel anti-war senator

I’ll be writing something a bit more detailed about the fall of the Prodi government for the next issue of Socialist Resistance but I came across this appeal at Sinistra Critica’s site. It’s in Italian but if you read Latin, French or Spanish you should be able to get the gist. If you want to [...]

Prodi puts himself on a knife-edge

At the moment my poor command of Spanish is a real handicap. The following article is one of the rare occasions where my degree in Italian Language and Literature comes in useful. I’ll do more work on it later in the week.
The “centre-left” coalition which Romano Prodi put together to oust Silvio Berlusconi covers most [...]