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Marxism has contributed much to the understanding of the national question: its class dynamics, its relationship to internationalism, its political importance and the importance of the slogan of self-determination. Lenin's role in this was particularly significant.

In 1991 the Italian Communist Party completed its long process of social-democratization. For many years the PCI was proud of its 'communist identity' and even of its 'diversity' in the context of the national political system and the European left.

Taking into account their place in the history of the international labor movement, studying the Russian revolution and the Leninist legacy remains a necessity for those who want to keep on with the socialist struggle.

In La guerre civile espagnole en Catalogne et au Pays basque, Miguel Romero questions conventional history and tries to look at it from the point of view of the defeated and oppressed.

The current political relevance of the history of past revolutions is revealed in the ongoing polemics over the meaning of the French revolution of 1789 and the English revolution of 1640-60.

The emergence of revolutionary Christianity and liberation theology in Latin America opened a new chapter and posed exciting new questions. In Marxisme et théologie de la libération, Michael Löwy argues that these developments demand a renewal of the Marxist analysis of religion.