Amadeo Bordiga

Content by or about Amadeo Bordiga (13 June 1889 – 25 July 1970), an Italian Marxist theorist, revolutionary socialist, founder of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), member of the Communist International (Comintern) and later a leading figure of the International Communist Party. Bordiga is viewed as one of the most notable representatives of Left communism in Europe.

The youthful Bordiga

The youthful Bordiga

Introduction to the 1974 edition of Amadeo Bordiga’s “Economic and social struct

Introduction to the 1974 edition of Amadeo Bordiga’s “Economic and social structure of Russia today” - Jacques Camatte

Here, for the first time in English, is Camatte’s introduction to the 1974 edition…

Dialogue with Stalin, Amadeo Bordiga, 1952

Dialogue with Stalin - Amadeo Bordiga

In the 1950s, the International Communist Party undertook a world-historic task: unravelling the Russian enigma. Through a series of articles…

Collection of the translated writings of Amadeo Bordiga

This is a collection of, to my knowledge, all the translated writings of Amadeo Bordiga. Spanning…

Loren Goldner - Amadeo Bordiga, the Agrarian Question, and the International Revolutionary Movement

Loren Goldner's introduction to Amadeo Bordiga's critique of Soviet…

Against anti-fascism: Amadeo Bordiga’s last interview

The text of the interview was originally published in Storia Contemporanea no. 3, September 1973…

Down with the Bourgeois Republic! Down with Its Constitution! – Amadeo Bordiga

An article from 1947 by Amadeo Bordiga in which he discusses the debate over the constitution of the…

Dialogue with Bordiga – Jacques Camatte

In this 1988 essay, Jacques Camatte reassesses the continuing relevance of Bordiga’s emphasis on the need for a “radical break” (scisma) with…

Beyond the Party: The evolution of the concept of “the Party” since Marx – Junius Collective (Pour une Intervention Communiste)

An essay by Pour une Intervention Communiste on the origins and development of the…

Interview: the situation of left communism today

Loren Goldner's interview with the Korean Socialist Workers' Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007.

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Tezy Frakcji Komunistów-Abstencjonistów Włoskiej Partii Socjalistycznej

Tezy te zostały opracowane w 1920 przez Amadeo Bordigę, który reprezentował frakcję Komunistów…

On the union question - Amadeo Bordiga and Onorato Damen

An extract from the book 'Bordiga: Beyond the Myth', published by the CWO/ICT, available in multiple…

The spectral figure of Amadeo Bordiga: a case study in the decline of Marxism in the West - John Chiaradia

John Chiaradia's 1972 dissertation on the left communist Amadeo Bordiga, specifically his political activities between 1912 and 1926, when he played a major role in the Italian Socialist party and later in the Italian Communist party, from which he and thousands of other anti-Stalinist communists were later expelled.