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Books for Italy

From New International, Vol. XIV No. 3, March 1948, p. 96.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

DEAR COMRADES:

I received for the past two years your paper which has been very useful for me and my friends in studying; the international working-class movement and particularly the struggle of classes in America.

I must note that the political situation in Italy has not been dealt with extensively, as you did for instance with Poland by Rudzienski’s articles ... We shall be very grateful to you if you were able to send us at my address the following books, which are not available in Italy and which are of great interest for us:

Trotsky: Third International After Lenin, First Five Years of the Communist International, The Revolution Betrayed; Morrow: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain.

We need also a list of books on the Spanish Civil War, since there is absolutely nothing in Italy on this subject. As exchange we can send you Sereni’s book on Southern Italy and Gramsci’s book on historical materialism against the reactionary philosopher Croce. Gramsci as you know was the founder of the CP in Italy and its theoretician; his book is devoted solely to theoretical questions ... Last but not least, I must apologize for my English.

N.C. (Italy)

[Readers who can contribute any of the above-mentioned books toward the education of the new generation of Italian Marxists are urged to send them to The New International for forwarding. – Ed.]

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