[GM107] The Party’s General Meeting in Cortona

29-30 May 2010

On the weekend of 29 and 30 May the party gathered for its regular working meeting. Almost all of our groups were represented, although a few comrades were unable to attend due to circumstances beyond their control.

The proceedings took place in a comfortable hall rented from the local authority, and comrades were accommodated in some conveniently situated hotels.

As usual we dedicated the Saturday morning session to checking that jobs have been done, planning future tasks and exchanging relevant material, reading matter, documents, etc,. Everyone appreciated the fact, in these times of looming crisis, that the party is putting a lot of effort into studying workers’ problems and workers’ struggles, helping us to make an assessment which is as comprehensive as possible and enabling us to formulate the right communist directives to give to the class.

Then we sat and listened, calmly and attentively, to the reports; the result of a quiet, unobtrusive work which stakes no claim to “originality”, apart from that of giving an accurate picture, in these dark times, of the uncorrupted approach of the Marxist left.

The Military Question (the American revolution) – Course of the Economic Crisis – Origins of the Chinese Communist Party – The Third Volume of Capital – Labour Movement in the USA – The Rearmament of the Imperialist Powers.