In the early 1950s, Bordiga began calling for a return to the positions of the Italian Communist Left as they were in the early 1920s when he was the leader of the Communist Party of Italy. To that end he founded the International Communist Party, which then launched their paper, Il Programma Comunista. The group around Battaglia Comunista (and their theoretical journal Prometeo) disagreed, instead defending the following positions:The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History
