Edition curated by Circolo internazionalista «coalizione operaia» and Prospettiva Marxista
The work we present focuses on the theoretical-political legacy of the internationalist minorities who fought courageously against the entrenchment of the proletariat in the various fronts of the Second World Imperialist War. Its purpose is not to fill a void in the shelves of Italian nonfiction on World War II and the Resistance in Europe. Its militant necessity has arisen in the course of the political battle to reestablish the cornerstones of Marxist analysis and proletarian internationalism on the occasion of the imperialist war in Ukraine, which broke out on Feb. 24, 2022, and to reiterate forcefully that in the age of imperialism, those who deny by misunderstanding, or worse, by falsification, Marxist analysis of imperialist dynamics in order to support “wars of liberation of oppressed nations” that are not such in fact or to support supposedly “anti-imperialist” blocs, serve – and it is a low service – world imperialism.
It is a matter of trying to draw a theoretical balance sheet, which is indispensable for building the premises necessary to face the challenges of the future; it is a question of looking higher and farther, on the shoulders of those who have managed to firmly maintain the red flag of proletarian internationalism in the midst of what to date remains the most terrifying imperialist carnage in the history of capitalism, fighting – it is legitimate to say with bare hands – the overwhelming ideological force of bourgeois reaction, in its nationalist, fascist, racist, democratic, Stalinist and social democratic guises.
These men and women, these “glimmers in the night” of the century of imperialism had a whole world against them: the Axis and Allied imperialist powers, the bourgeoisies at home aligned with one another, Stalinism. Yet despite such adverse conditions, they did not deflect. They did not hesitate to take their place in the onerous work of rebuilding the class independence of the proletariat and for the restoration to the class of its own theoretical consciousness, which is struggle for consciousness of struggle and in struggle, paying a very high price, in terms of slander, denunciation, arrests, deportations, torture, and, often, even with their own lives. This anthology, in addition to being a tribute to their invaluable testimonies and their cruelly defeated battles of yesterday, is intended to be a contribution to the reappropriation by the working class of the tools needed to win the battles of today and, above all, the gigantic battles of tomorrow.
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Italian language, July 2023, Red series, 2 volumes, 1020 pages, paperback, illustrated.
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