By the 1970s, some Western Communist parties — notably in Italy and Spain — had claimed a degree of independence from the Soviets under the banner of “Eurocommunism.” The consistent factor ...

Sebastiano Timpanaro’s politics were one of the great organizing principles of his life. After his entrance into the Italian ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform.footnote 1 The ...

The fortunes of social democratic parties rose well into the 1970s. In a movement known as Eurocommunism, several Communist parties in the West broke from the Soviet line by embracing liberal ...

Can we emerge from the present crisis in the opposite direction, by a growth of democracy? Eurocommunism represents at once a critical reflection on the historical errors of the workers’ movement ...