PUBLICATION OF TROTSKY'S BOOKS IN ITALY
Rome
A growing interest in the ideas of Leon Trotsky in Italy is indicated by the large number of Trotsky's books which have been printed here recently. Nearly all the most important works of the great revolutionary leader are now available in Italian.
There have been a number of new additions to the list. The Einaudi Publishing House has brought out Permanent Revolution, translated and introduced by Livio Maitan.
The Samond e Savelli Publishers have printed The New Course, with an introduction by Sirio Di Giuliomaria.
The same publisher has brought out an inexpensive paperback edition of Trotsky's Lenin, which is available at bookshops and newsstands.
Even bourgeois publishers have shown interest in Trotsky's books; one of them has published an Italian translation of the book edited in France under the title Les Crimes de Staline, a title which has been kept in the italian edition; Stalin's Crimes includes the writings on the Moscow Trials published at Coyoacaén in July, 1937.
A contribution to the circulation of Trotskyist analyses has been made by a publishing house set up by the Italian Trotskyist organization itself.
This publishing house started its activity under the name of Edizioni Bandiera Rossa and has now been reorganized under the name of Nuove Edizioni Internazionali. It has so far published three books:
(1) All the documents and proceedings of the Unification Congress of the Fourth International, which was held in 1963.
(2) Under the title From the Moscow Trials to the Fall of Khrushchev, all the documents produced by the Fourth International on Stalinism; and on various problems of the workers states (including the Sino-Soviet conflict, and the social nature of Cuba). An introduction to these two books and to each document was written by Livio Maitan.
(3) The Building of the Revolutionary Party. This book contains a chapter on "The Relationship Between the Communist Vanguard and the Mass Movement" by Livio Maitan, an illustration of the Trotskyist tactic known under the name of "entrism," by Sirio Di Giuliomaria, and the principal documents on tactics voted by the Italian section and the European Conference of the Fourth International.
A book by Ernest Germain on the theory of "state capitalism" is being prepared by this publishing house.
The Building of the Revolutionary Party [La _Costruzione del Partito Rivoluzionario] is a valuable book on the practical and theoretical questions of building mass revolutionary parties in Europe, with special reference to Italy.
Maitan's essay deals with the general theoretical and historical aspects of the question outlined in its title.
Di Giuliomaria's article discusses the thought and experience of Italian revolutionary Marxists since 1956 and analyzes the progress made toward building a revolutionary party in Italy.
The book is available for about $1.50 from Nuove Edizioni Internazionali, Casella Postale 6158, Roma Prati, Italy.