For a Revolutionary Left Per una Sinistra Rivoluzionaria | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Marco Ferrando Claudio Bellotti |
| Founded | December 2017 |
| Ideology | Communism Trotskyism Revolutionary Socialism Anti-Stalinism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Red |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 630 |
| Senate | 0 / 315 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
For a Revolutionary Left (Italian : Per una Sinistra Rivoluzionaria, PSR) was[ when? ] a coalition of Trotskyist parties in Italy. [1] [2] Founded in 2017 to run in the 2018 Italian general election, its leader was Marco Ferrando. [3]
| Parties | Main ideology | Leaders | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workers' Communist Party (PCL) | Communism | Marco Ferrando | |
| Left Class Revolution (SCR) | Communism | Claudio Bellotti | |
Both parties were Trotskyist, even though they adhered to different strands of Trotskyism as well as different political internationals. Moreover, both of them were for a long time factions within the multi-tendency Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) and later splinter groups of that party.
The PCL had its roots in the Communist Revolutionary League, active since 1979, affiliated to Proletarian Democracy (DP) since 1989 [4] [5] [6] and finally merged into the PRC, like most of DP, in 1991. Within the PRC, the group was known as Communist Project. [7] In 2006 the group left the party and set up the PCL, [8] [9] Italian section of International Socialist League.
LCR was launched in 2014, within the PRC, as the re-boot of HammerSickle (FM), a group formed in 1986 within the local youth section of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, editing a journal under the same name. [10] [11] In 1991 the group joined the PRC and was organised as an internal faction, [12] [13] representing 1.7% of the party in the 2005 congress, [14] 24.5% in the 2010 youth congress and, along with Countercurrent, 13.4% in the 2011 congress. In 2016 LCR left the PRC and became an independent party. [15] [16] [17] In 2024 the LCR would be transformed into the Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) [18] [19] [20] Italian section of the Revolutionary Communist International. [21]
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Election year | No. of overall votes | % of overall vote | No. of overall seats won | +/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 29,176 | 0.08 | 0 / 630 | – | |
| Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Election year | No. of overall votes | % of overall vote | No. of overall seats won | +/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 32,501 | 0.10 | 0 / 315 | – | |