Why a new organization (and a new site)?
This is the organization that, after the expulsion of the PRC from the Communist Party , has gathered together in the party the comrades who had fought against its “pro-government” involution; against the sell-off of most of its founding values, starting from the opposition to the war “no ifs, and or buts.”
The story of the expulsion from the PRC of Senator Franco Turigliatto, because he refused to support a motion by the Prodi government that hypocritically called “peace mission” the Italian expedition to Afghanistan, was the final act of a long battle inside that party, which since then has become a battle outside it as well, a battle that already at that time tried to stem the self-destructive drift of the left. The drift that led to this current quasi-disappearance.
Sinistra Critica, in the years of his life as an independent organization, has developed an important activity in all the major sectors of society, from workers and employees to university students, from the struggle for sexual freedom in all its options to internationalist solidarity …
In spite of its modest size, Sinistra Critica however was one of the protagonists of the attempt to build up a resistance as wide as possible to austerity policies .
But during the preparation of its third congress in September 2012, profound differences in orientation arose, first within its Coordinating Committee, and then confirmed in the militant body of the organization. The congress has registered a perfect balance between the two positions, building a National Coordinating Committee in which the two tendencies were equally represented.
The congress ended with a unanimous vote on a document recording the two proposals, and trying to govern the coexistence in the same organization. But this generous attempt quickly came to a halt, and then a further progressive separation has prevailed, to come, these days, to the mutual acknowledgement of the impossibility of a coexistence that would be counterproductive to both political projects.
The willingness to coexistence, however, while recording this failure, has not been in vain. It has become the desire to rule a breaking in order not to damage the political, organizational and even personal relations between those who chose one way or the other, and this would allow to develop, albeit in different ways and in different contexts, the common historical and ideal heritage.
Thus, the representatives of the two tendencies (which now become the representatives of two different organizations) have signed a joint declaration which is published on the home page of the Sinistra Critica website.
For our part, Sinistra Anticapitalista (Anticapitalist Left), the new organization proposed by those who in the last Congress have shared the political content of the amendments was founded today .
The fundamental difference, which then led to the impossibility of coexistence of the two projects, is focused on the possibility and desirability of building a revolutionary political organization, rooted in the working class and with the greatest possible public screening of its overall policy proposal, aimed at the recomposition of the anti-capitalist forces of the labor movement. Hence our commitment to the construction of the “Rossa” coalition, together with some leftist trade union and political currents (“Rete 28 aprile” inside the Cgil, whose spokesperson Giorgio Cremaschi is also the best-known representative of Rossa, Usb, Rete dei Comunisti, a former maoist tendency, some of the leaders, and many militants of Rifondazione close to social movements).
A crucial first appointment of Sinistra Anticapitalista will be its founding Assembly-seminar to be held on September 20 to 22 in Chianciano, and whose program is also published on the home page of our site http://anticapitalista.org. Assembly in which we invite all those who are interested in our project to participate.
In the coming weeks you will find on the site the document which will introduce the discussion of Chianciano.
The site anticapitalista.org constitutes the “official” voice of Sinistra Anticapitalista, with the commitment, even more than we did with the old site sinistracritica.org, to provide constant information, proposals for political orientation, intervention materials, to stimulate reflection and political discussion.
It is a “new beginning” that we propose to all who followed our previous production, and we hope that they wish to join us in this new evolution.
Memorize this site in your “favorites”, please send us your feedback, your suggestions, your reports. Get in contact with Sinistra Critica at https://anticapitalista.org/.
Francesco Locantore
Franco Turigliatto
Sinistra Anticapitalista 