Marco Ferrando
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Marco Ferrando is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
) is an Italian Trotskyist activist and politician, the leading member of the AMR Progetto Comunista current in the Movimento per un Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori (Movement for the Communist Workers' Party), and a member of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International
Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International
The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organisation. Its name in Spanish is Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in Buenos Aires called by the Movement for the...
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In February 2006, in the build-up to the Italian general election, 2006
Italian general election, 2006
In the Italian general election, 2006 for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy held on April 9 and April 10, 2006 the incumbent prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the center-right House of Freedoms, was narrowly defeated by Romano Prodi, leader of the center-left The...
, he was removed from the PRC's list of candidates for the Senate of Italy because of his support for the right of Iraqis to resist occupation, and criticism of Zionism
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...
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When the PRC joined the current center-left government, the AMR Progetto Comunista left the PRC. After that, they dissolved and formed the Movement for the Communist Workers' Party.
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- article on him
- article from Workers' Party (Argentina)Workers' Party (Argentina)The Workers' Party is an Argentine Trotskyist political party. It is the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International....
with photo - statement from AMR-PC with photo
- Movement for the Communist Workers' Party Official Website(Italian)