Anticapitalist Left (Italy)

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Anticapitalist Left
Sinistra Anticapitalista
Leader Franco Turigliatto
Founded22 September 2013
Preceded by Critical Left
HeadquartersVia G. Modena, 90/A Rome
NewspaperL'Anticapitalista
Ideology Communism
Marxism
Trotskyism
Eco-socialism
Socialist feminism
Political position Far-left
International affiliation Fourth International [1]
Website
anticapitalista.org

Anticapitalist Left (Sinistra Anticapitalista, SA) is a small far-left political party in Italy, led by Franco Turigliatto.

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History

Members of Anticapitalist Left in 2016 Sinistra Anticapitalista Primo Maggio 2016 Torino piazza Castello.jpg
Members of Anticapitalist Left in 2016

Following the dissolution of Critical Left (SC) in 2013, Franco Turigliatto, Antonio Moscato, and other militants of the former SC, founded a new party, Anticapitalist Left. [2] [3] The new organization "promotes the elaboration and implementation of a revolutionary communist, feminist, environmentalist, and libertarian political program". [4] In anticipation of the Italian election of 2018 and after having started a dialogue with the Workers' Communist Party, SA decided to join Power to the People. [5] [6] On 4 October, the Anticapitalist Left decided to abandon the project, deciding that working with former OPG and Eurostop members to give life to a new party would have distorted the original project of a common, open, pluralist and inclusive front.[ citation needed ] At its second national congress, held in February 2019, the Anticapitalist Left became the Italian section of the Fourth International. [7]

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