(From Battaglia Comunista 6 June 2005)

Dear Comrades,

The Commemoration of comradeMauro Stefanini was held on Saturday 28th May at the Calusca bookshop in Milan.

It is perhaps too early to write or say anything dispassionate about someone who was such an enormous presence but this message comes from the entire CWO for whom Mauro was, in the words Lenin used

(The document which follows is the result of a wide-ranging debate amongst all the organisations which adhere to the International Bureau.

As we were going to press we received the following letter from a sympathiser of the communist left tradition in Norway who has informed us that he was previously a follower of Maoism which

Translated from Bilan & Perspectives No. 6 (December 2005)

Capitalism’s latest theme is the struggle to defend democracy against terrorism. But what is this democracy?