Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.
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As Marx explained in the Communist Manifesto, as working-class socialists we intervene in the organic labour movement, not set up “our own” movement beside it.
As Marx explained in the Communist Manifesto, as working-class socialists we intervene in the organic labour movement, not set up “our own” movement beside it.
Workers’ industrial struggle has revived in recent months on a scale not seen for decades. That is cause for great hopes. Left-wing political mobilisation, though, has failed to match it. On issues like the NHS, new anti-strike laws, asylum rights, and the environment, activity on the streets has been small in proportion to the number of people opposed to official policies.