Italian Communism: The New and the Old ![](/wp-content/themes/Dissent-Rumors-Mobile/images/lock.gif)
Is the PCI—Partito Comunista Italiano—”different”? Different from what, should be the immediate response to so general a question. No longer the sectarian party it was at its birth, nor the paragon of popular-front tactics it became in the 1930s, the PCI …