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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

  1. "Il dibattito nella sinistra del Prc: La nostra esclusione da Progetto comunista e le sue conseguenze". Archived from the original on 7 October 2008.
  2. "La nostra mozione al Sesto congresso del Prc: Rompere con Prodi — Preparare l'alternativa operaia". Archived from the original on 7 August 2007.
  3. "Sinistra classe rivoluzione è nata!". 12 December 2014.
  4. "Rifondazione perde un altro pezzo, FalceMartello lascia il PRC - Popoff Quotidiano". 11 January 2016.
  5. "La nostra uscita da Rifondazione comunista". 10 January 2016.
  6. "Comunisti in lista "per una Sinistra rivoluzionaria"". 7 December 2017.
  7. "Le elezioni". 25 November 2016. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018.
  8. "La palude elettorale e la tempesta che si avvicina". 7 September 2022.
  9. "La nostra battaglia al Congresso della CGIL". 7 October 2022.
  10. "Giornate di Marzo - Area programmatica d'alternativa in CGIL". Giornate di Marzo (in Italian). 2025-01-10. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  11. "Costruiamo il Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario!". 15 April 2024.
  12. "Tutti a Roma il 23 novembre! Nasce il Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario!". 19 September 2024.
  13. "Così le sigle comuniste invocano la "violenza rivoluzionaria" e portano la lotta in piazza". 8 October 2024.

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