The Unitary and Invariant Body of Party Theses

Introductory Notes to the Party Theses in 1976 and 1998

• 1848 – Marx-Engels
  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
• 1864 – International Working Men’s Association (First International):
  • Provisional Rules
  • 1871, London Conference, Resolution on the Political Action of the Working Class
  • 1872, General Congress Held at the Hague, Resolution on the Rules
• 1915 – Lenin
  • Resolutions on the Imperialist War
• 1919 – Third (Communist) International, 1^st Congress:
  • The Platform of the Communist International
  • Theses on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• 1920 – Italian Socialist Party (PSI):
  • Theses Presented by the Communist Abstentionist Fraction
  • The Manifesto/Platform of the Party Left
• 1920 – Third International, Second Congress:
  • Preamble to the Statutes
  • Conditions of Admission to the Communist International
  • Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution
  • Theses on the National and Colonial Question
  • Theses on Parliamentarism Presented by the Communist Abstentionist Fraction of the PSI
• 1921 – Italian Socialist Party (PSI), 17^th Congress (Livorno), Constitution of the Communist Party of Italy:
  • The Program of the Party
• 1921 – Communist Party of Italy (PCd’I), Section of the Third International:
  • Party and Class
  • Party and Class Action
  • The Tactics of the Communist International
  • The Democratic Principle
• 1922 – Communist Party of Italy, 2^nd Congress (Rome):
  • Theses on Tactics and Theses on the Agrarian Question (“Rome Theses”)
• 1922 – Third International, 1^st Enlarged Executive Committee:
  • Report of the PCd’I on Party Tactics and the Question of the United Front
• 1922 – Third International, 4^th Congress:
  • Theses Presented by the PCd’I
  • Communist Party of Italy, Report on Fascism
• 1924 – Communist Party of Italy, Clandestine National Conference (Como):
  • Draft Theses Presented by the Left on the Policies and Tasks of the PCd’I
• 1924 – Third International, 5^th Congress:
  • Program of Action Presented by the Left of the PCd’I
  • Report on Fascism by the Left of the PCd’I
• 1926 – Communist Party of Italy, 3^rd Congress (Lyon)
  • Theses Presented by the Left (“Lyon Theses”)
• 1926 – Third International, 6^th Enlarged Executive
  • Report by the Left of the PCd’I
• 1945 – International Communist Party:
  • 1945 – Nature, Function and Tactics of the Revolutionary Party of the Working Class
  • 1945 – The Party Platform
  • 1948 – The Party Program
  • 1949 – Appeal for the Movement’s International Reorganization
  • 1951 – Characteristic Theses of the Party
  • 1951 – Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party
  • 1952 – Contributions to the Organic Historical Representation of the Marxist Revolutionary Theory
  • 1957 – The Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism in the Doctrine and History of the International Proletarian Struggle
  • 1965 – Considerations on the Organic Activity of the Party when the General Situation is Historically Unfavorable
    • Notes for the Theses on the Question of Organization
    • Naples Meeting: Theses on the Historical Task, Action, and Structure of the World Communist Party, According to the Positions Forming the Historical Patrimony of the Communist Left for More Than Half a Century (“Naples Theses”)
    • Milan Meeting: Supplementary Theses on the Historical Task, the Action, and the Structure of the World Communist Party (“Milan Theses”)
  • 1989 – Party’s Classical Theses and Evaluations on Imperialist Wars