Articles by Luca Tavan

The Italian left and the factory councils: 1919-1920

Luca Tavan reexamines the revolutionary upsurge in Italy following WW1, drawing out strategic errors made by Gramsci and the leadership of the Italian Communist Party.

Workerism and autonomism in Italy’s “Hot Autumn”

Luca Tavan revisits the explosive period of working-class struggle in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and critiques the autonomist ideas that led to the defeat of the movement, and continue to shape the left today.

Review: The rise of the far right in Italy

Luca Tavan reviews a book tracing the alarming rise of Giorgia Meloni and the Fratelli d’Italia, an organisation with links to Mussolini’s fascists.

Review: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Squad

Luca Tavan reviews a book assessing the record of “the Squad” – the supposedly left-wing faction of the resistance US Democratic Party. Despite the author’s attempt to put a positive spin on the Squad, his book provides abundant evidence that they are nothing more than moderate liberals who offer no real challenge to the Democrat leadership.

Review: Zombie Kautskyism

Luca Tavan reviews a critical study of the ideas of Karl Kautsky and the revival of Kautskyanism among sections of the left.