Democrazia Proletaria
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Proletarian Democracy
Democrazia Proletaria |
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| General Secretary | Mario Capanna |
| Founded | 1975 (as coalition) 13 April 1978 (as party) |
| Dissolved | 9 June 1991 |
| Split from | Italian Communist Party |
| Merged into | Communist Refoundation Party |
| Newspaper | Quotidiano dei lavoratori |
| Membership | max: 10,310 (1988) min: 2,500 (1979) |
| Ideology |
Communism Trotskyism Eco-socialism Anti-Stalinism Pacifism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group |
Technical Group of Independents (1979–1984) Rainbow Group (1984–89) |
| Colours | Red |
| Website | |
| www.democraziaproletaria.it | |
Proletarian Democracy (Italian: Democrazia Proletaria, DP) was a far-left political party in Italy.
DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP), Workers Vanguard (AO) and the "Workers Movement for Socialism" (MLS). At the local level, smaller groups joined, such as the "Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization", "Revolutionary Communist Groups - IV International" and the "League of the Communists".
DP took part in the 1976 elections, winning 556,022 votes (1.51%) and 6 seats in the election to the Chamber of Deputies. On April 13, 1978, DP was transformed into a political party. The move to make DP into a real political party was pushed through by the minority wing of PdUP, led by journalist Vittorio Foa and Silvano Miniati; the majority of AO, led by Massimo Gorla and Luigi Vinci; and the League of the Communists, led by Romano Luporini.
The main figure of DP was the charismatic Mario Capanna, a former student leader associated with the 1968 New Left movement.
The strongholds of DP were the industrial cities of Northern Italy, which had strong leftist traditions. DP was opposed to the so-called 'historic compromise' between the Italian Communist Party and the Christian Democrats.
During the 1978 electoral campaign, Peppino Impastato, a leading DP militant from Sicily, was murdered by the Mafia.
In the 1979 elections for the European Parliament, DP won 1 seat in the Technical Group of Independents group.
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