Italian Communist Party

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Marxist–Leninist organization communist party political party

The Italian Communist Party was a major 20th-century Marxist-Leninist political party in Italy that played a central role in the country’s left-wing politics and labor movements before dissolving in the early 1990s.

Aliases (2)

Communist Party of Italy ×1
Partito Comunista Italiano ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Marxist–Leninist organization → communist party → political party →
activeIn	20th century →
color	red →
country	Italy →
dissolved	1991 →
electoralStronghold	Emilia-Romagna NERFINISHED → Tuscany → Umbria NERFINISHED →
followedBy	Communist Refoundation Party → Democratic Party of the Left →
foundedBy	Amadeo Bordiga → Antonio Gramsci →
hasPart	Italian Communist Youth Federation →
headquartersLocation	Rome →
ideology	Eurocommunism → Marxism–Leninism → communism →
inception	1921 →
influenced	Eurocommunist parties in Western Europe → Italian labor movement →
influencedBy	Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony → Leninism → Soviet Union →
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian →
memberOf	Cominform → Comintern → European Left tradition →
nativeLabel	Partito Comunista Italiano →
newspaper	L'Unità →
notableLeader	Achille Occhetto NERFINISHED → Enrico Berlinguer → Luigi Longo NERFINISHED → Palmiro Togliatti →
opposedTo	Italian Christian Democracy → Italian fascism →
participatedIn	Italian Constituent Assembly → Italian Parliament →
politicalPosition	far-left → left-wing →
precededBy	Italian Socialist Party (left wing) → Socialist Party of Italian Workers →
shortName	PCI →
significantEvent	Historic Compromise strategy → Italian Resistance during World War II → Years of Lead in Italy → split leading to Communist Refoundation Party →
youthWing	Italian Communist Youth Federation →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Altiero Spinelli → Altiero Spinelli → Antonio Gramsci ("Communist Party of Italy") → Italo Calvino → Luigi Longo →	memberOf
Cominform → Comintern →	memberOrganization
Popular Front (Italy) →	alliancesWith
Pietro Nenni →	allyOf
Garibaldi Battalion →	associatedWith
Eurocommunism →	influencedBy
Pietro Nenni →	laterOpposed
Giorgio Napolitano →	memberOfPoliticalParty
Italian Communist Party ("Partito Comunista Italiano") →	nativeLabel
Third International →	notableMemberOrganization
Pentapartito →	opposedBy