However, there are some groups which are genuinely part of the left communist tradition which are to say the least ambiguous on national liberation - the various 'Bordigist' groups. Of course it's a major problem, but it doesn't exclude them from the communist left.
Of course, it depends how you define the communist left. I think that the ICC's concept of a 'proletarian political milieu' despite having a terrible name, is a necessary one. It defines, which groups we can co-operate with on an organisational level, and which groups we can do joint work. It should act as a barrier to us falling into sectarianism.
The question then is how you define the 'camp of the working class'. I think that the first point that we evaluate a group on is it's attitude to capitalist war. If these 'various 'Bordigist' groups' support national liberation struggles then they are outside this.
I don't know the details about these groups as I don't speak Italian, but as I understand it there are groups, which have equally leftist positions on national liberation, and trade unions to the Platformists for example. When you add this, as if on its own it weren't enough, their position on the party-state relationship, one has to wonder how on Earth these organisations can be considered to be in the 'camp of the working class'.
If these were any other leftists groups, which didn't claim heritage from the Italian left, the ICC would denounce them for what they are.
Devrim
Hi Devrim, you could find very "interesting" quotations also in Programma Comunista, one of the main reviews of bordigists.
"la presa di coscienza nel proletariato, nonchè la sua combattività di classe, passano attraverso la palestra delle lotte di liberazione nazionale [...] anche se ciò significa che i proletari dovranno scannarsi fra di loro."
-- Programma Comunista - (~1976)
"the acquisition of class consciousness by proletariat, and it class combativeness, pass through the exercise [gym] of national liberation struggles [...] even if this means proletarians will have to 'cut throats' among themselves."