Movement of United Communists
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Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
political party in Italy.
It was founded in June 1995 as a split of the Communist Refoundation Party
Communist Refoundation Party
The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist Italian political party. Its current secretary is Paolo Ferrero....
(PRC) by those Communist MPs who had voted the vote of confidence to the government of Lamberto Dini (supported also by the Democratic Party of the Left
Democratic Party of the Left
The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...
(PDS), the Italian People's Party
Italian People's Party (1994-2002)
The Italian People's Party was a Christian democratic political party in Italy-History:The party emerged as the successor to Christian Democracy in January 1994...
and the Northern League
Northern League (Italy)
Lega Nord , whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania , is a federalist and regionalist political party in Italy founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties of Northern and Central Italy, most of which had arisen...
) in March 1995.
Most members of MCU were from the Proletarian Unity Party
Proletarian Unity Party
The Proletarian Unity Party was a political party in Italy.-Origins:The PdUP was founded in the November 1972 by minority factions of two parties, the socialist Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity , led by Vittorio Foa, and Silvano Miniati, and the Catholic left Political Movement of...
(PdUP). This party left 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...
in 1984 and merged with the Italian Communist Party
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
, to leave it when it changed name into PDS in 1991. At that time most ex-PdUP members joined PRC.
The leading politicians who formed MCU included Sergio Garavini
Sergio Garavini
Sergio Garavini was an Italian politician, writer and trade unionist.-Biography:Garavini was born in Turin....
, Lucio Magri
Lucio Magri
Lucio Magri was an Italian journalist and politician.-Biography:Magri was born in Ferrara and was one of the founders of the far-left newspaper il manifesto....
, Luciana Castellina, Famiano Crucianelli, Luciano Pettinari, Ersilia Salvato, Rino Serri, Marida Bolognesi and Walter Bielli. In 1996 they presented some candidates in the lists of PDS.
In 1998 MCU finally merged with PDS and other small parties to form the Democrats of the Left
Democrats of the Left
The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...
.