the uprisings of may 1968 led to a small resurgence of interest in left communist ideas. various small left communist groups emerged around the world, predominantly in the leading capitalist countries. in the late 1970s and early 1980s battaglia comunista initiated a series of conferences of the communist left to engage those new elements, also attended by the international communist current. as a result of these, in 1983 the international bureau for the revolutionary party (later renamed as the internationalist communist tendency) was established by battaglia comunista and the british communist workers organisation.