Memoirs of a critical communist

From his early commitment to communism in 1942 under fascism in Italy, Livio chose to be ‘against the current’ finding his way as a revolutionary democrat and rejecting both Stalinism and social democracy. He joined the Italian Trotskyist movement in 1947, and remained a leading member all his life. He was one of a small group of comrades who led the Fourth International during the difficult years of the 1950s and early 1960s. First elected in 1951, he remained a member of the International leadership until his death. From 1991, he was a leader of Rifondazione Comunista. Maitan died in Rome on 16 September 2004. In this book Livio Maitan reviews major events in the latter half of the 20th Century. He probes questions of strategy and programme, seeking a democratic socialist alternative and touches on events in France, Yugoslavia, China, Korea, Algeria, Latin America, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Chile, Portugal, Vietnam, Spain, Nicaragua, Iran, Afghanistan, the USSR and Brazil. With a preface by Daniel Bensaid 4 b/w Illustrations 156x234mm 400+pp