Workers' Communist Party (Italy)
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Workers' Communist Party
Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori |
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| Secretary-General | Marco Ferrando |
| Founded | 18 June 2006 |
| Split from | Communist Refoundation Party |
| Headquarters | Via Marco Aurelio, 7 Milano |
| Newspaper | Giornale comunista dei lavoratori |
| Ideology |
Communism Trotskyism Anti-Stalinism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International |
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| http://www.pclavoratori.it/ | |
The Workers' Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori, PCL) is a political party of the far left. It was created in 2006 by the Trotskyist breakaway wing of the Communist Refoundation Party (PCR) led by Marco Ferrando.
The PCL is the Italian section of Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International.
The foundation of the Italian Communist Workers' Party as a new political entity was the result of a split within the Communist Refoundation Party when the PCR joined the second government headed by Romano Prodi. The movement, known as "Common Project" since its inception, had taken a stance further to the left within the party: it opposed the political alliance with The Olive Tree (political coalition), an association of center-left parties as it was extremely critical of past centre-left governments, in particular the first Prodi government with D'Alema and Amato. The "Common Project" movement was also opposed to the politics of the then Secretary of the Communist Refoundation Party, Fausto Bertinotti . The group refused to be part of the new government, maintaining that such participation would be disastrous. Moreover, following the exclusion of their leader, Marco Ferrando, from the electoral list of Communist Refoundation Party for the elections to the Senate in the 2006, his followers pushed for a split in the party to maintain a "Communist opposition" to the new government.
The birth of the movement was seen as a response to the emergence of two new left-wing political parties: the Democratic Party, the fusion of the DS and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, and the Rainbow Left, an organization that grouped together the Party of Italian Communists, the Communist Refoundation Party, the Democrats of the Left and the Greens. The backers of the PCL believed that the future Democratic Party would be centrist and liberal, and close to the interests of banks and corporations. Regarding the Rainbow Left, they considered this coalition fundamentally social-democratic and too close to the administration with only a pretension of revolutionary idealism and radicalism.
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