Rossana Rossanda Fought for the World Revolution By Ingar Solty 23 April 2024 Italian Marxist Rossana Rossanda was born 100 years ago today. Her country’s Communist Party sought a gradualist “Italian road to socialism” — but she insisted that the class struggle in Italy was tied to the fate of the world revolution.
Italian writer and journalist Rossana Rossanda in Rome, Italy, May 18, 1996. (Leonardo Cendamo / Getty Images)
he year 1945 was a breakthrough for Europe’s Communists. Paradoxically, the Soviet role in liberating the continent from German fascism meant that the Communists were lifted to power in Eastern countries, where both capitalism and the workers’ movement were mostly