I Want to Believe by A.M. Gittlitz;

Author:A.M. Gittlitz;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786806208
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

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Hombrecitos

A small team from the Italian section greeted the exiles at the airport. Recognizing the security failures of the Latin American sections from furious circulars, they had spent the previous night arranging to safely escort their leader without police tails in a plan to subvert the asylum provision that they live at a registered address and retire from politics. From the airport they would drive to a church where Candida Previtera, Alberto di Franco, and Homero Cristalli would enter through the front as though thanking God for their safe arrival. Then Sierra, Rovira, and J. Posadas would exit through the back where another car would be waiting to take them to a secure location to safely reestablish the International Secretariat underground.

After some exhausted fumbling they gave up. The transformational portal was locked, and the trio exited back through the front of the church. Also unable to find a safe house at such short notice, they were forced to proceed to the apartment of Piero Leone – the public face of the party whose address was listed in their newspaper.

Posadas knew the European Bureau was far less experienced than the BLA, and he considered it an asset. Four months prior the International had been on the brink of collapse after the crisis of H & M exposed the gap between his authoritative infallibility and his theoretical incapacity. Such conflicts were far less likely around the obedient young Europeans. For many of them the lectures of Posadas were their introduction to socialism and militancy, with selections from the rest of the Marxist canon coming later in their education. High-level questions were left largely to the South American leadership as they dutifully fulfilled their tasks of publishing and recruiting. Believing the serendipitous raid on Shangrila had moved the International, and history itself, to a higher stage, he was emboldened to demand even more.

Italy had always been one of the main sites of communist struggle. At the end of the First World War workers seized nearly every factory in the industrial north. The Italian Communist Party (PCI), led by Antonio Gramsci, split from the Socialist Party (PSI) in 1921 to urge the workers to seize state power. Aided by the monarchy and the PSI, Benito Mussolini’s fascists were installed into power in a move meant to defend democratic stability. Mussolini instead took total control over the state and brutally suppressed the left, outlawing the PCI entirely. As his regime collapsed at the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of armed partisans once again flew the red flag, and in 1944 the PCI was reestablished. There was a sense they could have had a revolution then and there, but Stalin, having promised to cede Western Europe and fearing a proxy civil war such as in Greece, ordered the partisans to disarm and the PCI to pursue a modest democratic strategy.

But by 1968 communist youth were fed-up with parliamentarism. They began to read Marx as a philosopher of international revolution instead of steady

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