"Communist Review" was the central organ of
the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party (IBRP). This is apparently
a collection of ten back issues from the 1980's. The IBRP, today known as the
Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT), is part of the Left Communist or
ultraleftist tradition. Its main member group, the Internationalist Communist
Party of Italy (a.k.a. Battaglia Comunista) was founded already in 1945!
The two most interesting issues are no 5 and no 6, which reprint an extensive criticism of Antonio Gramsci, the legendary Marxist theoretician who at one point was the leader of the Italian Communist Party. "Communist Review" prefer the equally legendary Amadeo Bordiga, the first leader of the Communist Party of Italy, who was later replaced by Gramsci. While Battaglia Comunista isn't strictly speaking "Bordigist", they do consider the hopelessly sectarian and dogmatic Bordiga to have been a revolutionary, while Gramsci is attacked as an idealist, voluntarist, "councilist" (a believer in workers' councils rather than the party) and an early advocate of a Popular Front against fascism. To the IBRP and Battaglia, this is all bad - a rather original view of Gramsci, who is usually extolled by left-wing groups, regardless of their respective political orientations.
Otherwise, I don't think "Communist Review" contains material of any interest to the general reader.
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