Bandiera Rossa Association (Italy)
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The Bandiera Rossa Association (Associazione Bandiera Rossa) is an association of members of the Critical Left
party in Italy. Politically it is Trotskyist and is the Italian affiliate of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI). Bandiera Rossa is a left wing current. "Bandiera Rossa" is Italian
for "Red flag
".
It originated in the late 1940s as the Revolutionary Communist Group (GCR) and was led by Livio Maitan
who remained a leading fixture in both the GCR and its successor organisations and the USFI until his death in 2004.
In 1979 despite having lost many of the membership gains accrued through entrist work in the Communist Youth the GCR renamed itself the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). It grew moderately, despite elements growing dissatisfied and leaving to form rival Trotskyist groups, through the recruitment of students and work in the factories. It took part in various electoral blocs in the late 1970s.
When much of the Italian far left formed the organisation Democrazia Proletaria (Proletarian Democracy
) the LCR joined it as a recognised faction. Later still when the PRC was founded the former LCR argued for Democrazia Proletaria to dissolve into the larger formation.
Critical Left
Critical Left is a communist political party in Italy.-History:Originally a Trotskyist faction within the Communist Refoundation Party , it broke ranks on 8 December 2007 to become an independent political party. From 2006 to 2008 SC had a member of the deputy, Salvatore Cannavò, and a senator,...
party in Italy. Politically it is Trotskyist and is the Italian affiliate of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI). Bandiera Rossa is a left wing current. "Bandiera Rossa" is Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
for "Red flag
Red flag
In politics, a red flag is a symbol of Socialism, or Communism, or sometimes left-wing politics in general. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution. Socialists adopted the symbol during the Revolutions of 1848 and it became a symbol of communism as a result of its...
".
It originated in the late 1940s as the Revolutionary Communist Group (GCR) and was led by Livio Maitan
Livio Maitan
Livio Maitan was an Italian Trotskyist, a leader of Associazione Bandiera Rossa and of the Fourth International...
who remained a leading fixture in both the GCR and its successor organisations and the USFI until his death in 2004.
In 1979 despite having lost many of the membership gains accrued through entrist work in the Communist Youth the GCR renamed itself the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). It grew moderately, despite elements growing dissatisfied and leaving to form rival Trotskyist groups, through the recruitment of students and work in the factories. It took part in various electoral blocs in the late 1970s.
When much of the Italian far left formed the organisation Democrazia Proletaria (Proletarian Democracy
Proletarian Democracy
Proletarian Democracy was a political party in Italy.-1970s:DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party , Workers Vanguard and the Workers Movement for Socialism...
) the LCR joined it as a recognised faction. Later still when the PRC was founded the former LCR argued for Democrazia Proletaria to dissolve into the larger formation.