Luisa Morgantini is an Italian former Member of the European Parliament. She was elected as independent with the Communist Refoundation Party ticket and sat with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group.
Fausto Bertinotti is an Italian politician who led the Communist Refoundation Party from 1994 to 2006. On 29 April 2006,after the centre-left coalition's victory in the Italian general election,he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies,a position he held until 2008.
The Italian General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union centre in Italy. It was formed by an agreement between socialists,communists,and Christian democrats in the "Pact of Rome" of June 1944. In 1950,socialists and Christian democrats split forming UIL and CISL,and since then the CGIL has been influenced by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and until recent years by its political heirs:the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS),the Democrats of the Left (DS) and currently the Democratic Party (PD).
Cesare Damiano is an Italian politician,member of the Democratic Party.
General Confederation of Labour was an Italian labor union,founded in 1906,under the initiative of socialist militants. Having survived the Fascist dictatorship and the Second World War as an underground organization,the CGL joined the cross-party CGIL labor federation in 1945.
Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Earlier in his career,D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy. Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic,he is referred to as Leader Maximo. He is also the author of several books.
Renata Polverini is an Italian politician and trade unionist. She was President of the Lazio region and was formerly Secretary General of the General Labour Union (UGL);she resigned on 24 September 2012 after an expense scandal.
DomàNunch was an eco-nationalist social movement that has been active under different forms in Insubria,across the border between Italy and Switzerland,between 2005 and 2020.
Sergio Garavini was an Italian politician,writer and trade unionist.
Rosa Pavanelli is the General Secretary of Public Services International,the global union federation for public sector trade unions.
Guglielmo Epifani was an Italian trade unionist and politician. From 2002 to 2010,he was the General Secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL),which was the biggest trade union in Europe. On 11 May 2013,Epifani was appointed secretary of the Democratic Party (PD).
Maurizio Landini is an Italian trade unionist. Since January 2019,he is the General Secretary of CGIL. He was also former general secretary of FIOM from 2010 to 2017. Landini is considered a socialist and is famous for his populist political style.
Giuliano Poletti is an Italian politician. He was appointed minister of labour and social policies on 22 February 2014 by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi,and also served in the cabinet of Paolo Gentiloni.
Teresa Bellanova is an Italian politician and trade unionist,who served as Minister of Agriculture from September 2019 to January 2021 in the government of Giuseppe Conte. In 2018,she was elected in the Italian Senate for the Democratic Party (PD),but in 2019 she joined Italia Viva (IV),the new movement of Matteo Renzi. Bellanova was also a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018.
Emanuele Macaluso was an Italian trade unionist,politician,and journalist.
Bruno Trentin was an Italian trade unionist and politician,General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1988 to 1994.
Luciano Lama was an Italian trade unionist and politician,General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1970 to 1986.
Antonio Pizzinato is an Italian trade unionist and politician,General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1986 to 1988.
Agostino Novella was an Italian trade unionist and communist politician.
Fiorella Ghiladrotti was an Italian Democratic Party of the Left later Democrats of the Left politician and trade unionist who served two terms as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North-West Italy constituency from 1994 to 1999 and again between 1999 and 2004. She was the first female President of the Italian region of Lombardy from 1992 to 1994,was a regional councillor of the Regional Council of Lombardy from 1990 to 1992 and a member of the National Council for Economics and Labour late in her life. Ghiladrotti has a room in the Pirelli Tower;an award;an association and a scholarship named after her.
