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The militant and heroic legacy of our movement is much needed as an inspiration for the struggle that faces us today. Party statement Subscribe to our  channel Communist partisans parade in Milan on 6 May 1945, celebrating victory in the antifascist war. The following letter was sent to comrades in Italy’s Partito Comunista to mark the anniversary of the founding of the original Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921. ***** The central committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) sends warm and fraternal greetings to the leaders and militants of the Partito Comunista on the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the original Communist Party of Italy. We salute all those who celebrate the best traditions of your cou...

By: Melkulangara Bhadrakumar Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap.  The Ukraine war too was planned as a trap for Russia. No one other than the the Bill Clinton administration’s point person for Russia, Strobe Talbot tweeted early this year when Russia’s special military operations began congratulating President Biden’s foreign policy team — Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken and JakeSullivan — for having successfully cornered Russia.  Talbot didn’t call it a trap. For, a trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it; on the other hand, if you know about it, it’...

Neo-Nazi Italian Fascism The far-right is on the rise in Europe. In Sweden, once seen as a bastion of social democracy, the Sweden Democrats, a virulently racist and anti-immigrant party with neo-Nazi roots won second place in national elections in September, backed by one in five voters, and its parliamentary support is crucial for the new centre-right coalition government. Similar authoritarian parties marked by ultra-nationalist and racist ideologies, anti-migrant policies, crusades against women’s and LGBT+ rights, and attacks on the left (often framed by rhetoric about ‘elite’ conspiracies) have been in power or close to power in recent years in Poland, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Serbia and of course in Hungary, where far-right pro-Putin prime minister, Viktor Orbán, ...

Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italian Nazi dictator and father of fascism Benito Mussolini, is once again a member of the European Parliament (MEP). She was one of the eight replacements for Italian MEPs who have taken up seats in the national parliament, the Chamber of Deputies. Mussolini previously served as MEP for central Italy from 2014 to 2019, when she lost her re-election bid. Prior to that, she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies on two occasions, in 1992-2004 and 2008-2013 … Born in Rome in 1962, Alessandra is the daughter of Nazi Mussolini’s fourth son, Romano. Prior to entering politics, she had a career in modeling and acting, helped along by her maternal aunt, actress Sophia Loren. Mussolini also has three children.