Workers' Communist Party (Italy)
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Workers' Communist Party Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori | |
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| Secretary-General | Collective secretariat |
| Founded | 18 June 2006 |
| Split from | Communist Refoundation Party |
| Headquarters | Via Marco Aurelio 7, Milan |
| Newspaper | Unità di Classe |
| Ideology | Anti-Stalinism Communism Trotskyism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | International Trotskyist Opposition (since 2022), Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (2004-2017) |
| Colors | Red |
| Website | |
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The Workers' Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori, PCL) is a communist party in Italy. It was created in 2006 by the Trotskyist breakaway wing of the Communist Refoundation Party led by Marco Ferrando. The PCL is the Italian section of International Trotskyist Opposition.[citation needed]
History
[edit]There was some possibility that it would be the only party using the label Communist standing in the 2013 Italian general election.[1] However, the PCL decided to run under their official name in which they gained slightly less than 90,000 votes.
For the 2018 elections, the PCL and Left, Class and Revolution presented a list named For a Revolutionary Left.[2][3]
Party relations
[edit]The PCL was affiliated to the Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International, a Trotskyist political international. The party has a very conflicting relationship with the Communist Alternative Party (PdAC), another Trotskyist political organization in Italy.[4]
Electoral results
[edit]Italian Parliament
[edit]| Chamber of Deputies | ||||
| Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
No. of overall seats won |
Leader |
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| 2008 | 208,296 | 0.57 | 0 / 630
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Marco Ferrando |
| 2013 | 89,995 | 0.26 | 0 / 630
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Marco Ferrando |
| 2018 | 29,176 (into PSR) | 0.08 (into PSR) | 0 / 630
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Marco Ferrando |
| Senate of the Republic | ||||
| Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
No. of overall seats won |
Leader |
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| 2008 | 180,442 | 0.55 | 0 / 315
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Marco Ferrando |
| 2013 | 113,936 | 0.37 | 0 / 315
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Marco Ferrando |
| 2018 | 32,501 (into PSR) | 0.10 (into PSR) | 0 / 315
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Marco Ferrando |
| 2022 | 4,484 | 0.02 | 0 / 315
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Marco Ferrando |
European Parliament
[edit]| Election year | No. of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
No. of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
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| 2009 | 166,531 | 0.54 | 0 / 72
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Marco Ferrando |
Regional Councils
[edit]| Region | Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− |
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| Liguria | 2015 | 3,036 | 0.56 | 0 / 31
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| Umbria | 2015 | 1,662 | 0.47 | 0 / 21
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| Lazio | 2013 | 5,886 | 0.21 | 0 / 51
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| Abruzzo | 2008 | 2,018 | 0.37 | 0 / 45
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| Basilicata | 2010 | 698 | 0.22 | 0 / 30
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| 2013 | 869 | 0.37 | 0 / 21
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| Sicily | 2012 | 2,031 | 0.10 | 0 / 90
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Symbols
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2006–2009 -
2009–present
References
[edit]- ^ "Italy: the end of Mario Monti" Archived 2013-04-23 at archive.today.
- ^ "Comunisti in lista "per una Sinistra rivoluzionaria".
- ^ "Per una sinistra rivoluzionaria".
- ^ "PCL-PDAC: FRATELLI COLTELLI". il marxismo libertario (in Italian). 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
External links
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