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Debate on the counter revolution in Chile (1973)

Livio Maitan, Lucio Colletti — 2025-09-15T11:36:40Z

Leading member of the Fourth International, Livio Maitan, replies to views expressed by the Marxist philosopher Lucio Colletti in a mass-circulation Italian weekly following the Chilean coup.

- Features / Chile, Historical events and figures, Features

Defeat of the referendum

Livio Maitan — 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z

On June 15 and 16, 2003 Italian electors voted on two referendums originating from popular initiatives. The first proposed that article 18 of a statute protecting workers from dismissal without just cause should be enlarged to cover companies employing less than 16 workers. More than three million workers were directly affected. The second referendum concerned the uncontrolled construction of electricity networks.

- IV353 - September 2003 / Italy

Opening speech of the Congress

Livio Maitan — 2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

The interval between this 15th World Congress and the preceding one is unusual in relation to our tradition. Certainly, this time gap stems from our organizational weaknesses. However, particularly in recent years, it is due to a very large extent to the revival of our national organizations.

- IV349 - May 2003 / Fourth International

A Tribute To The Fallen

Livio Maitan — 2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

Many comrades, men and women, have left us since the last world congress. Our publications have already paid tribute to our memory. Today we symbolically remember some of them.

- IV349 - May 2003 / Fourth International

From the Resistance to the new movements

Fausto Bertinotti, Livio Maitan — 2003-03-07T00:00:00Z

Livio Maitan, a regular contributor to 'International Viewpoint', has just published La strada percorsa - Dalla Resistanza ai nuovi movimenti: lettura critica e scelte alternative ("The Road Taken - From the Resistance to the New Movements: A Critical Reading and Alternative Options"), with a preface by Fausto Bertinotti.

- IV348 - March 2003 / Italy, Reviews

Refounding Rifondazione

Livio Maitan — 2002-05-16T00:00:00Z

At its fifth congress since its foundation in 1991, Italy's Party of Communist Refoundation confirmed its specific, indeed unique, character in the history of the Italian workers' movement. It would today be difficult to find its equivalent not only among the parties of the European left, but also among those parties which identify with the working class and socialism in Europe and other continents.

- IV340 - May 2002 / Italy

A triple triumph

Livio Maitan — 2002-04-15T00:00:00Z

THE 2002 Word Social Forum in Porto Alegre was a triumph on three levels: in terms of participation, much bigger than in 2001, depth of political and theoretical reflection on the main problems of our epoch and definition of forthcoming events and future objectives.

- IV339 - April 2002 / World, Social Forum

A new political framework

Livio Maitan — 2001-06-03T00:00:00Z

The perspective of a victory for Silvio Berlusconi led to fairly lively reactions in the political circles of several European countries, which expressed two major concerns: the use that a personality with such economic power could make of access to political power and the threat that a coalition comprising a right populist party like the Northern League and the heirs of the neo-fascists, National Alliance, would represent.

- IV332 - June 2001 / Italy

PRC: The debate begins

Livio Maitan — 2001-06-03T00:00:00Z

The Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) took a heavy battering throughout the electoral campaign and in the days following the announcement of the results. So-called democratic and/or left journalists and intellectual masterminds competed in a kind of witch hunt against the PRC denounced as guilty of having helped Berlusconi become Premier.

- IV332 - June 2001 / Italy

The return of Berlusconi?

Livio Maitan — 2001-04-03T00:00:00Z

If Berlusconi's fortunes have revived and he can hope to win on May 13, it is above all the centre-left which bears the responsibility, because of its calamitous record and its insistence on persevering in its orientations and its methods.

- IV330 - April 2001 / Italy