Communist Party of Italy (2014)

The Communist Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Comunista d'Italia, PCd'I) was a short-lived communist party in Italy which represented a transition period between the Party of Italian Communists (1998–2014) and the Italian Communist Party (2016–present).

Not to be confused with the much larger, disbanded Communist Party of Italy.
Communist Party of Italy
Partito Comunista d'Italia
SecretaryCesare Procaccini
PresidentManuela Palermi
Founded11 December 2014
Dissolved26 June 2016
Preceded byParty of Italian Communists
Succeeded byItalian Communist Party
HeadquartersPiazza Augusto Imperatore 32, Rome
NewspaperLa Rinascita della Sinistra
Youth wingFGCI
IdeologyCommunism
Political positionFar-left
European affiliationParty of the European Left (observer)
Colors  Red
Website
comunisti-italiani.it

History

The PCdI, which took the name from the 1921–1926 Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I), emerged in 2014 from a transformation of the Party of Italian Communists (PdCI), a communist party launched by splinters of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in 1998. Before becoming a tiny party, the PdCI was a party of government and controlled dozens of seats in the Parliament.[1]

Cesare Procaccini, a metalworkers' trade unionist who had replaced Oliviero Diliberto as PdCI's leader in 2013, was the party's secretary since its foundation while Manuela Palermi, a former senator, its president.

In 2016, the PCdI became the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which took the name from the 1926–1991 PCd'I ninety years after the latter's foundation. PRC splinters and minor groups also joined the new party.[2][3][4]

Leadership

References
  1. "Ritorna il Partito comunista d'Italia: il Pdci si riprende la denominazione del 1921". repubblica.it (in Italian). 11 December 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. "A Bologna rinasce il Partito Comunista Italiano". bologna.repubblica.it (in Italian). 24 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. "A 25 anni dalla Bolognina (ri)nasce il Pci". pochestorie.corriere.it (in Italian). 25 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  4. "Da oggi a Bologna rinasce un partito. Per noi, 'il' partito". ilmanifesto.it (in Italian). 24 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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