- Proletarian Unity Party
Infobox_Italy_Former_Political_Party
party_name = Proletarian Unity Party
party_name_italian = Partito di Unità Proletaria
party_
party_status = Former Italian National Party
newspaper = N/A
ideology =Communism ,Socialism
website = N/A
colorcode = red
The Proletarian Unity Party ("Partito di Unità Proletaria", PdUP) was apolitical party in Italy.Origins
The PdUP was founded in the November 1972 by the minorities of two parties, the socialist-oriented
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (PSIUP), led byVittorio Foa andSilvano Miniati , and theLeft-wing -CatholicPolitical Movement of Labourers (MPL), led byGiovanni Russo Spena andDomenico Jervolino , who had opposed the merge into theItalian Socialist Party (PSI).In 1974 these members were joined by the group of "
Il Manifesto " and by the Autonomist Student Movemenet led byMario Capanna , forming the Partito di Unità Popolare per il Comunismo. The founding congress was held onJanuary 29 ,1976 . Main leaders of the various currents were Miniati, Foa, Capanna (far left -oriented),Rossana Rossanda andLucio Magri - leaning for collaboration with theItalian Communist Party (PCI) andItalian General Confederation of Labour ) - andLuigi Pintor . Magri was elected as the group's first national secretary.During the 1976 general elections, PdUP ran together with
Proletarian Democracy , gaining 3 seats in theItalian Chamber of Deputies (Magri,Eliseo Milani andLuciana Castellina ) elected out of the coalition's 9.plinter group
In January of
1977 , the "Manifesto" and former-PSIUP affiliates left the party due to the failure in creating an all-left government. OnFebruary 20 ,1977 the left-wing minority tendency broke away to join Proletarian Democracy in its founding process as organized party.The Magri's majority absorbed for a while the
Avanguardia Operaia movement, which, however, separated in the Congress held atViareggio the following year. During its third congress (Rome ,1981 ), the party was joined by theMovimento Lavoratori per il Socialismo , led byLuca Cafiero .Absorption into the PCI and later events
After the elections of 1983 PdUP associated its lists to PCI, to which it had become closer after the PCI secretary
Enrico Berlinguer had abandoned of the "Historic Compromise " (a project for a PCI-Christian Democracy alliance).On
November 25 ,1984 the Proletarian Unity Party merged into PCI. When, in1991 ,Achille Occhetto started the process of transformation of PCI into the Social-Democratic orientedDemocratic Party of the Left (PDS), some ex-PdUP members declared their opposition to the move, and subsequently adhered toCommunist Refoundation Party . After the latter abandoned support to the ItalianCentre-left Lamberto Dini government in1995 , much of the ex-PdUP members left the party to create theMovement of United Communists , which later was absorbed into PDS' heir, theDemocrats of the Left .Notable member
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Vittorio Agnoletto
*Luca Cafiero
*Mario Capanna
*Massimo Caprara
*Luciana Castellina
*Mario Catalano
*Famiano Crucianelli
*Ivano Di Cerbo
*Davide Ferrari
*Vittorio Foa
*Paolo Gentiloni
*Alfonso Gianni
*Franco Grillini
*Lucio Magri
*Ramon Mantovani
*Lidia Menapace
*Eliseo Milani
*Silvano Miniati
*Roberto Musacchio
*Aldo Natoli
*Valentino Parlato
*Luciano Pettinari
*Luigi Pintor
*Rossana Rossanda
*Giovanni Russo Spena
*Massimo Serafini
*Vincenzo Vita
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