Pietro Ingrao

Pietro Ingrao ( born March 30, 1915 in Lenola Latina ) is an Italian journalist and politician. Ingrao was one of the most influential people of the Communist Party of Italy (KPI).

Career

After completing his studies in law, literature and philosophy Ingrao participated in 1939 anti-fascist activities at the University of Rome in 1940 and entered into the KPI. From 1943 he worked in the underground in Milan with its publication of the newspaper L' Unità prohibited KPI and participated in the anti-fascist resistance in Milan and Rome part. From 1947 to 1957 he was editor in chief of L' Unità. 1956 chose the Eighth Congress of the KPI him a member of the National Secretariat. Since 1948, Ingrao was a Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1972 leader of the Communists, 1976-1979 President of the Chamber of Deputies, where he remained until 1992.

1966 Ingrao joined on the XI. Congress of the CPI for the first time with the demand for a right to public discharge of disagreements in the "democratic centralism " according to the principle of organized party. In the following years Ingrao was spokesman of the left wing of the party, who opposed the tendency of the majority party, the increasingly reduced the program of the transformation of society to mere reforms. But Ingraos wing also opposed the " Moscow-backed " and " orthodox" minority flow and sharply criticized the real socialism of the Soviet Union. Ingrao worked with groups of the New Left such as the circle of 1969 excluded from the KPI editor of the daily newspaper Il Manifesto, calling for opening the party to the new protest movements. He had a strong influence in the trade union left, where, for example, Fausto Bertinotti close to him.

On the last KPI Congress in February 1991 Ingrao was among the opponents of the run by converting a majority in the Democratic Party of the Left, whose member he nevertheless remained until 1993. In early March 2005, a few weeks before his 90th birthday, Ingrao joined the Refoundation. In his application for membership, he supported in particular their commitment to nonviolence.