Revolutionary Communist Party (Italy)

The Revolutionary Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario, PCR) is a Trotskyist communist party in Italy. The PCR, which is led by a collective leadership, is the Italian section of the Revolutionary Communist International.

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Revolutionary Communist Party Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario

Abbreviation	PCR
Leader	Collective leadership (Central Committee)
Founded	8 December 2014 (as Sinistra Classe Rivoluzione) 23 November 2024 (as Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario)
Split from	Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
Headquarters	Via Paulucci de Calboli 4, Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Newspaper	Rivoluzione FalceMartello
Ideology	Communism Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Per una Sinistra Rivoluzionaria (2018)
International affiliation	Internazionale Comunista Rivoluzionaria
Colors	Red
Slogan	"I filosofi hanno finora solo interpretato il mondo; ora si tratta di cambiarlo" – Karl Marx
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 400
Senate	0 / 205
European Parliament	0 / 76
Regional Councils	0 / 897
Website
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In 1986 a group of Trotskyists within the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna started a journal named FalceMartello ("HammerSickle"). When the PCI was transformed and became the Democratic Party of the Left in 1991, the group around the journal approached the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). As of 2001, HammerSickle was an autonomous faction within the party.^[1] In the 2005 congress of the PRC, HammerSickle was represented 1.7% of the delegates.^[2] It was stronger among the party's youth, obtaining 24.5% of the support in the 2010 youth conference. In the 2011 congress of the PRC, HammerSickle, along with Countercurrent obtained 13.4% of the vote by party members. In 2014 HammerSickle was re-organised within Left Class Revolution (Sinistra Classe Rivoluzione, LCR),^[3] whose acronym was inspired by France's Revolutionary Communist League. In 2016 LCR finally left the PRC and became an independent party.^[4]^[5]

In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the LCR joined forces with the similarly Trotskyist Workers' Communist Party (PCL) and formed a joint electoral list named For a Revolutionary Left (PSR),^[6] obtaining 0.1% of the vote.^[7] Despite proposals from the PCL, the alliance was not repeated.

In the 2022 general election the LCR offered a "critical" support to the far-left joint list People's Union.^[8] Since the congress of the Italian General Confederation of Labour held later that year, the LCR/PCR has supported the internal component named Le Giornate di Marzo ("The Days of March").^[9]^[10]

During its April 2024 congress, LCR decided to launch the PCR,^[11] which was formally established in November 2024.^[12]^[13]

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