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Although forced underground the PCd'I continued underground and in exile. In 1926 it's left wing led by Bordiga was finally defeated and replaced by a new leadership around Gramsci at a conference in Lyons which issued a set of thess expressing the programmatic basis of the party at that point. However Gramsci soon found himself jailed by Mussolinis repression and the leadership passed to Palmiro Togliatti. Togliatti would lead the paryy until it emerged from illegality in 1944 and relaunched itself as the Italian Communist Party.
The party took part in every government during the national liberation and constitutional periods, from June 1944 to May 1947. In the first general elections of 1948 it joined the PSI in the Democratic Popular Front but was defeated by the Christian Democracy party.
The party gained considerable electoral success during the following years and occasionally supplied external support to center-left governments, never joining directly. One of its successes was the lobbying of Fiat to set up the AutoVAZ (Lada) car factory in the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1.
In the 1970s the party moved away from Soviet obedience and marxist-leninist orthodoxy definitely embracing western democracyA democracy is a form of government under which the power to alter the laws and structures of government lies with the voting citizenry (referred to as "the people", because in modern times it usually consists of all people over 18 years of age), and all ( eurocommunismEurocommunism was an attempt in the 1970s by various European communist parties, notably the Italian Communist Party, to widen their appeal by embracing middle-class themes and rejecting unquestioning support of the Soviet Union. A Trotskyist criticism of) and sought a collaboration with Socialist and Christian Democracy parties (the historical compromise). At the time the PCI was the biggest Communist Party in a democratic state, obtaining a score of 34,4% in the 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s general elections.
In the 1980s the party started approaching Democratic Socialism and the Socialist InternationalThe Socialist International (SI) is an international organisation for social democratic parties. Its secretariat is located in London. Its members include The Labour Party ( United Kingdom), SPD ( Germany), the Democratic Socialists of America ( USA), the.
In 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac the PCI disbanded to form the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS) or Democratic Party of the Left , with membership in the Socialist InternationalThe Socialist International (SI) is an international organisation for social democratic parties. Its secretariat is located in London. Its members include The Labour Party ( United Kingdom), SPD ( Germany), the Democratic Socialists of America ( USA), the. The communist tendency, led by Armando Cossutta , left the party to form the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) or Communist Refoundation Party.
In 1998 the PDS, with several smaller parties, the Laburisti (liberal socialists), the Cristiano Sociali (christian socialists), the Comunisti Unitari (right-wing split of the PRC), the Sinistra Repubblicana (left republicans) and the Riformatori per l'Europa (social democratic syndicalists), co-founded the "Democratici di Sinistra" (DS) or Democrats of the Left party. Later in the same year the Armando Cossutta tendency left the PRC to form the Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (PdCI) or Italian Communists Party.
Party Secretaries (in chronological order):