The Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is an Italian reformed communist party. It is led by Franco Giordano, however its most famous member is Fausto Bertinotti, who led the party from 1994 to 2006. Eurocommunism was a new trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties to develop a theory and practice of social transformation that was more relevant in a Western European democracy and less aligned to the partyline of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... Francesco Franco Giordano (born August 26, 1957) is an Italian politician. ... Fausto Bertinotti Fausto Bertinotti (born on 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician and leader of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista. ...

The party participates both in the Party of the European Left (of which Bertinotti is President) and the European Anticapitalist Left, and its members in the European Parliament sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. The European Left party is a political party at European level and an association of socialist and communist political parties in the European Union. ... The European Anti Capitalist Left (EACL) is an informal network for European anticapitalist left wing parties with a certain representativeness. ... Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Political parties 8 Committees 22 Last election June 2004 (785 MEPs) Meeting place Brussels and Strasbourg Secretariat Luxembourg and Brussels Website europarl. ... GUE-NGL logo The European United Left–Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament. ...

History

In 1991, when the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI), led by Achille Occhetto, became the Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra, PDS), dissidents, led by Armando Cossutta, launched the Communist Refoundation Party. In the same year Proletarian Democracy, a far-left outfit, merged in the new party, which was aimed to unite all Italian Communists. The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista dItalia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that bodys congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno. ... Achille Occhetto (born 1936) is an Italian political figure. ... The Democratic Party of the Left (Italian: Partito democratico della Sinistra, or PdS) was the evolution in a social-democratic direction of the Italian Communist Party, or PCI. It was founded by Achille Occhetto, last secretary of the PCI and first of the PdS. The logo of the PdS consisted... Armando Cossutta Armando Cossutta (Milan, 2 September 1926) is a Italian communist politician. ... Proletarian Democracy (Democrazia Proletaria, DP) was a political party in Italy. ... The term far left refers to the relative position a person or group occupies within the left-right political spectrum. ...

The first secretary of PRC was Sergio Garavini, who was replaced in 1994 by Fausto Bertinotti, a long-time CGIL trade union leader, who had left PDS only some months before. The leadership of Bertinotti was a turning point for the party, which jumped to the 8.6% of votes in 1996 general elections. Fausto Bertinotti Fausto Bertinotti (born on 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician and leader of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista. ... The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) is a national trade union centre in Italy. ... An early national general election was held in Italy on April 21, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ...

The party supported the first government of Romano Prodi until 1998, when Bertinotti's Communists turned to opposition and the government lost its majority in Parliament. However this decision was divisive also in Bertinotti's camp, where a group of dissidents, led by President of the party Armando Cossutta, split off and founded a rival communist outfit, the Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, PdCI), which joined Massimo D'Alema's government.   (born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician. ... The Party of Italian Communists (Italian: Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, also translated into English as Italian Communists Party) is a political party in Italy. ... Massimo DAlema (born on April 20, 1949 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian journalist and politician, a former prime minister and a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra. ...

In October 2004 PRC joined the centre-left opposition and in April 2005, Nichi Vendola, an openly gay politician who is one of the emerging leaders of the party, was elected President of traditionally conservative Apulia Region, due to the support of the whole centre-left and after a primary election, which saw Vendola beat a moderate-left opponent. He is the only regional President belonging to the Communist Refoundation Party. Nichi Vendola, 2004. ... This article is about the Italian region. ...

After the April 2006 general election which led the centre-left coalition The Union to a very narrow win, party leader Fausto Bertinotti was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and thus resigned the secretarship. The party joined Romano Prodi's II cabinet, in which PRC is represented by Paolo Ferrero, Minister of Social Solidarity. A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... Back side of Palazzo Montecitorio designed by architect Ernesto Basile. ...   (born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician. ... Paolo Ferrero (born 17 November 1960 in Pomaretto, Turin) is an Italian politician, member of the Communist Refoundation Party and currently the Italian Minister of Welfare. ...

In May 2006, MP Franco Giordano was elected new party secretary. Francesco Franco Giordano (born August 26, 1957) is an Italian politician. ...

The decision to participate in the centre-left coalition government, and in particular the party's decision to vote to refinance the Italian military presence in Afghanistan and send troops to Lebanon have attracted criticism from other sections of the European radical left.

Factions

The Communist Refoundation Party leader until 2006 was Fausto Bertinotti (59.2% in last Congress), and it views itself as the party representing the anti-globalization movement in the Italian political scene. Although it is has within it some recognized tendencies, like hardline communists of Being Communists - L'Ernesto (26.2%) and Trotskyists of Critical Left - Erre, HammerSickle or Communist Project (14.6%). Communist Project quit the party in 2006. Fausto Bertinotti Fausto Bertinotti (born on 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician and leader of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista. ... A KFC franchise in Kuwait. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Revolutionary Marxist Association – Communist Project, in Italian Associazione marxista rivoluzionaria – Progetto comunista, or AMR Progetto Comunista, was a Trotskyist grouping in the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) in Italy. ...

Popular support

The electoral results of the Communist Refoundation Party in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below. These are ranked lists of the regions of Italy. ...

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Leadership

• Secretary: Sergio Garavini (1991–1994), Fausto Bertinotti (1994–2006), Franco Giordano (2006–...)
  • Coordinator: Walter De Cesaris (2005–...)
• President: Armando Cossutta (1991–1998)
• Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Lucio Magri (1992–1994), Famiano Crucianelli (1994–1995), Oliviero Diliberto (1995–1998), Franco Giordano (1998–2006), Gennaro Migliore (2006–...)

• Party Leader in the Senate: Livio Libertini (1992–1993), Ersilia Salvato (1993–1995), Fausto Marchetti (1995–1996), Luigi Marino (1996–1998), Giovanni Russo Spena (1998–2001), Giorgio Malentacchi (2001–2002), Luigi Malabarba (2002–2006), Giovanni Russo Spena (2006–...)
• Party Leader in the European Parliament: Luigi Vinci (1994–1998), Lucio Manisco (1998–2004), Roberto Musacchio (2004–...)

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References

The Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani, SDI) is a small social-democratic party of moderate-left policies, heir of the old Italian Socialist Party, born in 1998 by the convergence of the Italian Socialists and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. ... Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political movement in Italy, headed by former magistrate and Mani Pulite campaigner Antonio Di Pietro. ... The Popular-UDEUR (Italian: Popolari-UDEUR) is a small centrist political party in Italy, led by Clemente Mastella. ... The Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi, or just Verdi) is the Italian Green Party. ... The Party of Italian Communists (Italian: Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, also translated into English as Italian Communists Party) is a political party in Italy. ...

External link

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Italian political parties (complete version, historical parties)
The Union	Olive Tree (Democrats of the Left – Democracy is Freedom – Daisy) – Communist Refoundation Party – Democratic Left Minor: Rose in the Fist (Democratic Socialists – Italian Radicals) – Party of Italian Communists – Italy of Values – Federation of the Greens – Popular–UDEUR Micro: European Republican Movement – Democratic Republicans – Italian Democratic Socialist Party – United Consumers – Middle-of-the-Road Italy Regional: South Tyrolean People's Party – Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party – Valdotanian Renewal – Southern Democratic Party – Sardinia Project
House of Freedoms	Forza Italia – National Alliance – Union of Christian and Centre Democrats – Lega Nord Minor: Christian Democracy for the Autonomies – Movement for Autonomy – Pensioners' Party – Tricolour Flame – Social Action Micro: New Italian Socialist Party – Italian Republican Party – Liberal Reformers Regional: Veneto for the European People's Party – Sardinian Reformers – Sardinian People's Party – Sardinian Democratic Union – New Sicily
Others	Micro: Italian Associations in South America – Italians in the World Regional: Valdotanian Union – Edelweiss Aosta Valley – Autonomist Federation – Union for South Tyrol – The Libertarians – North-East Project Complete list