Critical Left

The Sinistra Critica ( Critical Left ) is a political association in Italy. By December 2007, she was part of the party Refoundation; at the 6th Congress they seceded to join the Italian political landscape to only as a club and later as a political movement at the request of this from.

In the period within the Refoundation were the Ex - Senators Malabarba Luigi and Franco Turigliatto, and the ex - deputies Salvatore Cannavò, Lidia Cirillo and Flavia D' Angeli renowned personalities of the movement. Official party organ is the newspaper Sinistra Critica.

Political orientation

Policy priorities of the Sinistra Critica are anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, feminism and ecology. The political actors of the Party come from different political and social contexts and have different functions within the Refoundation as in other mass movements occupied ( for example, in the New Left in the early 1970s or in the Partito Comunista Italiano). A majority of the members belong to the Bandiera Rossa, a section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, whose most prominent leader Livio Maitan was.

The majority are in the party, the theses of the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Refoundation, starting with the alliance break with the first government of Romano Prodi and the centralist orientation, shared.

A larger increase in membership, especially of young people, the Sinistra Critica learned after the violent clashes at the G8 summit in Genoa.

  • Italian party
  • Communist Party
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