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2 unusual facts about Communist Refoundation Party


Nerio Nesi

His relations with Bettino Craxi were not always positive and when in 1994 the PSI was gone, Nesi decided to join the Communist Refoundation Party with which he was elected in 1996.

Prostitution in Italy

One feminist MP, Ersilia Salvato (RC) complained about the rushed legislation and abstained.


Being Communists

Being Communists (Essere Comunisti) is a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy, formed basically of former followers of Armando Cossutta, who left the party in 1998 to form the Party of Italian Communists.

Democracy and Socialism

Soon Angius and his followers felt that the new party, led by Fabio Mussi, was moving too far to the left toward a close alliance with the Communist Refoundation Party, the Party of Italian Communists and the Federation of the Greens instead of forming an alliance with the much more moderate Italian Democratic Socialists.

Movement of Unitarian Communists

It was founded in June 1995 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) by those Communist MPs who had voted the vote of confidence in the government of Lamberto Dini (supported also by the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), the Italian People's Party and the Northern League) in March 1995.

Proletarian Democracy

On June 9, 1991 the congress of DP in Riccione decided to merge the party into the Communist Refoundation Movement, which became the Communist Refoundation Party.


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