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| NCP's Theo Russell with Italian comrades |
ITALIAN, Greek and British comrades came
together on London’s South Bank last weekend for the Festa Comunista, organised
by members of the Italian Partito Comunista living in Britain. In addition to
lively and jovial debates, the comrades discussed the political situation and
communist movements in Italy, Europe and Britain, and solidarity work with
Democratic Korea.
The British wing
of the new Italian communist party that was formed last year is named after
Pietro Secchia, a leading Italian communist who was imprisoned by the fascist
regime in 1931.
Freed by the
partisans in 1943 following the collapse of the Mussolini regime, he became a
guerrilla leader in the struggle against the Nazi occupation and the fascist
forces still loyal to Mussolini. After the war Secchia entered the Italian
parliament while secretly maintaining a group of former partisans who kept
their weapons in case of a right-wing coup.
Secchia was
increasingly side-lined by the revisionist Italian communist leadership from
the 1950s onwards but he continued to support national liberation struggles and
upheld the Marxist-Leninist line until his death in 1973.
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