The Italian Spartacists came from two different organizational splits. One was formed in 1975 from dissidents of the Revolutionary Marxist Fraction led by Roberto Massari who announced the creation of a Spartacist Nucleus at the July 1975 European encampment of the international Spartacist tendency.[1]
The LTI grew closer to the international Spartacist tendency, sending a fraternal delegate to its first international conference in London in August 1979 and officially became its Italian sympathizing section in August 1980. Some members were not happy with this however. After the first conference they founded with International Proletarian Opposition within the LTI and in April 1980 left to form the Gruppo Operaio Rivoluzionario per la rinascita della Quarta Internazionale.[3]
By the early 1980s the LTI was centered in Milan where they published their monthly periodical Spartaco.
References
^Alexander, Robert International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement Durham, Duke University Press 1991 p.597
^Alexander, Robert International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement Durham, Duke University Press 1991 p.597
^Alexander, Robert International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement Durham, Duke University Press 1991 p.597