in 1941, the italian fraction was reorganised in france and along with the new french nucleus of the communist left came into conflict with the ideas which the fraction had propagated from 1936, namely of the social disappearance of the proletariat and localised wars and so on. these ideas continued to be defended by vercesi in brussels. gradually, the left fractions adopted positions drawn from german left communism. they abandoned the conception that the russian state remained in some way proletarian and also dropped vercesi's conception of localised wars in favour of ideas on imperialism inspired by rosa luxemburg. vercesi's participation in a red cross committee was also fiercely contested.