nevertheless, bordiga fought the ecci from within only to have an article of his which was favourable to leon trotsky's positions on the disputed russian questions suppressed. meanwhile, sections of the left motivated by onorato damen formed the entente committee. this committee was ordered to dissolve itself by the incoming leadership led now by gramsci, who only then opposed bordiga's positions which had gained prestige after a successful recruitment campaign. with the party congress of 1926 held in lyons, crowned by gramsci's famous lyons theses, the left majority was now defeated and on course to becoming a minority within the party. with the victory of fascism in italy, bordiga was jailed. when bordiga opposed a vote against trotsky in the prison pcd'i group, he was expelled from the party in 1930. he took a stance of non-involvement in politics for many years after this. the victory of italian fascism also meant that the italian left would enter into a new chapter in its development, but this time in exile.