Livio Maitan - Memoirs of a Critical Communist

We publish here the introduction to our 65th notebook, a collection of essays by Enzo Traverso on ''fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of history''.

This address was given by Franco Turigliatto at the launch of Livio Maitan’s book ''Memoirs of a critical communist: Towards a history of the Fourth International'' at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2019.

A video message from Gregor Benton at the launch of ''Memoirs of a Critical Communist. Towards a history of the Fourth International''. Benton reflects on Livio Maitan, and what Maitan's work meant for him.

Enzo Traverso - Critique of Modern Barbarism, review by Herman Pieterson.

Preface by Daniel Bensaid
Translated by Gregor Benton
Edited with an introduction by Penelope Duggan

Llivio Maitan's Memoirs of a Critical Communist tells the life of revolutionary communist in the second half of the 20th century. From his early commitment to communism under fascism in Italy, Livio chose to be 'against the current' by rejecting both Stalinism and social democracy, and charted a curse towards democratic and revolutionary Marxism.