I'm from Poland and I recently got interested in theory of the communist left. I mean, Italian one, I already subscribed to council communism before.

I don't fully agree with all the ICT's positions (I have doubts concerning the role of the party- perhaps due to my anarchist and later councilist "background"), but overall you seem reasonable and not sectarian, contrary to, well... some other left-communist organisation. Your view on the October Revolution also seems to be more complex and adequate than simplistic explanations laid down by anarchists ("Bolsheviks were just power-hungry red Jacobins") and many councilists ("it was bourgeois revolution from the start").

I was surprised to see some of your texts translated to Polish. Did you happen to have a Polish comrade? In Poland, communist left is virtually unknown. Communists in Poland are mostly Trot sects and Stalinist dinosaurs from the Communist Party (who mourned Kim Jong-Il). There are some people inspired by councilism and autonomism, but as far as I know all of them remain at the periphery of the anarchist movement (and Pannekoek and all are basically presented smugly as "Marxists who admitted the superiority of anarchism", or at least that's my impression). As for anarchists, commies are also a minority among them.

I wonder if there's any chance for openly communist group to gain any significant support here. Political climate in Poland is unfriendly towards radicals. Right-wing dominates political discourse to such extent that even the proper social democrats are outside of the parliament. Because of the post-WWII history (also Polish-Bolshevik war), everybody has a knee-jerk reaction to a word "communism" (or "socialism", but "communism" is obviously worse). Hardcore economic liberals label every kind of interventionism or social benefits as "socialism" (and their views are really popular amongst those who show any interest in politics). Trying to explain that socialism/communism is neither a totalitarian and militarist state, nor high taxes and welfare state, is like talking to a wall (I know that's what people think everywhere, but here it is taken to another new level). If you can't break down the barrier of prejudices in a personal conversation, what about convincing the whole mass of workers?

Okay, enough of this. If you wish, I can help you by translating some stuff (even if I will be the only Pole that will read it...). If I happen to have a time to spare I can also write something about major events here. That's all I can do.

Best regards