The Revolutionary Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario, PCR) is a Trotskyist and self-described Marxist–Leninist communist party in Italy. The PCR, which is led by a collective leadership, is internationally a member of the Revolutionary Communist International.
History
In 1986 a group of Trotskyists within the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna started a journal named FalceMartello ("HammerSickle"). When the PCI was trasnformed and became the Democratic Party of the Left in 1991, the group around the journal approached the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). As of 2001, HammerSickle was an autonomous faction within the party. In the 2005 congress of the PRC, HammerSickle was represented 1.7% of the delegates. It was stronger among the party's youth, obtaining 24.5% of the support in the 2010 youth conference. In the 2011 congress of the PRC, HammerSicle, along with Countercurrent obtained 13.4% of the vote by party members. In 2014 HammerSickle was re-organised within Left Class Revolution (Sinistra Classe Rivoluzione, LCR), whose acronym was ispired by France's Revolutionary Communist League. In 2016 LCR finally left the PRC and became an independent party.
In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the LCR joined forces with the similarly Trotskyist Workers' Communist Party (PCL) and formed a joint electoral list named For a Revolutionary Left (PSR), obtaining 0.1% of the vote. Despite proposals from the PCL, the alliance was not repeated.
In the 2022 general election the LCR offered a "critical" support to the far-left joint list People's Union. Since the congress of the Italian General Confederation of Labour held later that year, the LCR/PCR has supported the internal component named Le Giornate di Marzo ("The Days of March").
During its April 2024 congress, LCR decided to launch the PCR, which was formally established in November 2024.
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081007194127/http://www.marxismo.net/varie/progetto_comunista/2001-09_progetto_parte2.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070807233852/http://www.marxismo.net/prc/mozione_6cong_def.html
- http://www.marxist.com/sinistra-classe-rivoluzione-e-nata.htm
- http://popoffquotidiano.it/2016/01/11/rifondazione-perde-un-altro-pezzo-falcemartello-lascia-il-prc
- http://www.rivoluzione.red/la-nostra-uscita-da-rifondazione-comunista
- https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/12/07/news/lista_comunisti_per_una_sinistra_rivoluzionaria-183337337
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180311173510/http://elezioni.interno.gov.it/camera/scrutini/20180304/scrutiniCI
- https://www.rivoluzione.red/la-palude-elettorale-e-la-tempesta-che-si-avvicina
- https://rivoluzione.red/la-nostra-battaglia-al-congresso-della-cgil
- https://giornatedimarzo.it
- https://rivoluzione.red/costruiamo-il-partito-comunista-rivoluzionario
- https://rivoluzione.red/tutti-a-roma-il-23-novembre-nasce-il-partito-comunista-rivoluzionario
- https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/interni/cos-sigle-comuniste-invocano-violenza-rivoluzionaria-e-si-2377500.html
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