Being Communists

Being Communists

Being Communists ("Essere Comunisti") is a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy, formed basically of former followers of Armando Cossutta, who left the party in 1998 to form the Party of Italian Communists. The leader of the group is Claudio Grassi.

The faction can be considered the "traditionalist" wing of the party, in the sense that it does not agree with what it considers an execessive criticism of real socialism, the Soviet Union and the Italian Communist Party. As proud communists, the group members are not generally keen on the party's participation to the European Left. In 2005 the group obtained the 26.5% of the delegates to the VI national congress of the party, while two years later it suffered the split of some hard-liners led by Fosco Giannini, who set up The Ernesto.

In April 2008, following the severe defeat of the party in the 2008 general election, a group of former "Bertinottiani", composed basically of former members of Proletarian Democracy and led by Paolo Ferrero and Giovanni Russo Spena, criticized the recent experiment of The Left – The Rainbow alliance and the political line of Fausto Bertinotti. Soon after this group, named Refoundation in Movement, formed an alliance with Being Communists in order to overthrow the leadership of the party. In the 24-27 July 2008 congress the motion supported by the two groups obtained 40.1% of the delegates and Paolo Ferrero was elected party secretary with the support of other minority factions.

External links

* [http://www.rifondazioneinmovimento.org/ Official website]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Communists in the United States Labor Movement (1919–1937) — The Communist Party and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in… …   Wikipedia

  • League of Communists of Yugoslavia — SKJ redirects here, it can also refer to Skj (trigraph) League of Communists of Yugoslavia Savez Komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија …   Wikipedia

  • League of Communists of Croatia — Savez Komunista Hrvatske Leader see full list below …   Wikipedia

  • Young Communists in Norway — The Youth Communists in Norway (UngKom) is the youth wing of the Norwegian Communist Party.The Youth Communists in Norway is a Marxist Leninist organization. The UngKom prints and hands out the communist paper Kameraten(The Comrade) every… …   Wikipedia

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being — This article is about the novel. For the 1988 motion picture, see The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film). The Unbearable Lightness of Being   …   Wikipedia

  • List of Portuguese Communists — This is a list of persons that are or were supporters or members of the Portuguese Communist Party.General Secretaries*José Carlos Rates (1923 ndash; ?) Carlos Rates was elected after the 1st congress, held in Lisbon in 1923. He was chosen to… …   Wikipedia

  • McCarthyism — A 1947 propaganda comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for… …   Wikipedia

  • Joseph McCarthy — Infobox Senator |name=Joseph Raymond McCarthy nationality=American |300px jr/sr=United States Senator state=Wisconsin party=Republican term start=January 3, 1947 term end=May 2, 1957 preceded=Robert M. La Follette, Jr. succeeded=William Proxmire… …   Wikipedia

  • Anti-communism — For opposition to the Soviet Union, see Anti Sovietism. Part of the series on Communism …   Wikipedia

  • Hollywood blacklist — Hollywood Ten redirects here. For the 1950 short documentary film, see The Hollywood Ten. thumb|right|300px|Protestors opposing the jailing of the Hollywood Ten in 1950 (from the 1987 documentary Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist ).The Hollywood… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”