Italian Marxist-Leninist Party

Infobox_Italy_Political_Party
party_name = Italian Marxist-Leninist Party
party_name_italian = Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano
party_status
party_
leader = Giovanni Scuderi
coalition = "none"
newspaper = "Il Bolscevico"
ideology = Marxism-Leninism, Maoism
website = http://www.pmli.it/

The Italian Marxist-Leninist Party ("Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano") is a minor marxist political party in Italy. It was founded in Florence in 1977. The leading core of PMLI began their political activity as they joined the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist-Leninist) (PCd'I(ml)) in 1967. The group broke away from PCd'I(ml) in 1969, and formed the Italian Bolshevik Communist Organization Marxist-Leninist ("Organizzazione Comunista Bolscevica Italiana marxista-leninista"). In 1977 OCBIml was transformed into PMLI.

The PMLI is opposed to the bourgeois democracy and during the political elections it carries out an abstentionistic propaganda.

The PMLI is a Communist party, loyal to the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, named "the five teachers". This movement strives for a proletarian revolution and the establishment of a "united, red and socialist Italy". The IMLP believes that Maoism is the highest stage of the workers' movement.

Soviet leader Stalin is held in high regard within the PMLI due to his construction of the first Socialist country, the Soviet Union, and to his encouragement of the creation of the other Socialist countries of Eastern Europe. Consequently, the PMLI refuses Trotskyism, believing it to be an extremist and anti-Communist diversion from Marxism-Leninism.

The PMLI views the 1936 Soviet Constitution as example of the existence of the Socialism in the USSR.

The PMLI has an official newspaper, "Il Bolscevico" ('The Bolshevik'). The current General Secretary of PMLI is Giovanni Scuderi. The headquarters of the PMLI are located in Florence.

The party is not represented in the Italian Parliament, the European Parliament, nor in any regional or provincial assemblies.

History

Birth and first battles of "Il Bolscevico"

The first founders of PMLI, that the Party reminds as the "four pioneers", began their Marxist-Leninist militancy in 1967, when they joined the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist-Leninist). They were Giovanni Scuderi, Mino Pasca, Nerina "Lucia" Paoletti and Patrizia Pierattini. Afterwards, in 1969, one of the densest years of the Cultural Revolution in China, those four pioneers and other followers denounced CPI(ML) as revisionist party, judged the left cover of PCI.

In 14 December, 1969, then, the four pioneers and the Provincial Committee of Florence left CPI (ML) and, along with other Marxist-Leninist organizations, established the Italian Bolshevik Communist Organization Marxist-Leninist, and published, the next day, the first number of the official newspaper "Il Bolscevico". In this number, dense of quotes of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong, the Organization wrote:quote|Chairman Mao has often said that "without destruction there is not construction. The destruction is the criticism, the revolution. The destruction comes first, it of course brings the construction. By the destruction of CPI (ML) of Florence is arised, on completely Marxist-Leninist foundations, the Italian Bolshevik Communist Organization Marxist-Leninist. It suggests to build the revolutionary party that assumes Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as theory foundation that leads its thought. [Number 1 of "Il Bolscevico", 15 December 1969]

The work of OCBI M-L so was mainly the one to accumulate the forces to create a revolutionary party. In 1970 the Organization was officially recognized by the Communist Party of China and the Rome Embassy invited the leaders of the Organization to the official holidays of the People's Republic of China, while the Organization sent some messages to CPC, regarding its 10th National Congress and condolences when Zhou Enlai and Zhu De died. OCBI M-L had a wreath near the corpse of Mao in 18 September, 1976, when the funerals finished.

To achieve this "historical goal", OCBI M-L immediately launched itself in the student and workers revolts of then, carrying out an abstensionistic propaganda and denouncing those who they believ "false Communists", as PCI. Those were difficult years for the Organization, mainly for the lack of funds. Giovanni Scuderi, talking about the history of the Party, said:quote|When we began the struggle for the Party we've not a pen, nor a chair, nor a brush, nor headquarters. Subsequently we rented a foul building of Florence of four rooms inhabitated by mouses, cockroaches and spiders, that we restored during the summer holidays of 1968. We removed the bread by our mouths to give a newspaper and a minimum of equipment to the Party and when we could we gave a contribution to the brother parties in worse situation of ours. [Giovanni Scuderi, Report to the 3th Congress of PMLI]

Finally, after having gathered dozen of militants of Tuscany, Lombardy, Sicily and Calabria, the Organization established the Italian Marxist-Leninist Party.

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