Onorato Damen

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Onorato Damen (4 December 1893 – 14 October 1979) was an Italian politician, communist revolutionary and internationalist. He is remembered as one of the most notable representatives of left communism and proletarian internationalism in Europe. He began his political career in the Italian Socialist Party, and later joined the Communist Party of Italy following the split that led to its formation. After being expelled in 1929, he worked with the organized Italian left, becoming one of the leaders and founders of the Internationalist Communist Party (PCInt), formally founded in 1943. The PCInt went on to become the numerically largest left communist organization in the post-World War II period, until in 1952 Amadeo Bordiga, who had come out of retirement, split the party to form the International Communist Party (ICP). A majority followed Damen, whose group maintained the original name, the original theoretical journal Prometeo, and the paper Battaglia Comunista. Damen remained politically...

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