To the Left with Refoundation

To the Left with Refoundation (A Sinistra con Rifondazione) was a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party, a communist political party in Italy. Its leader was Austo Rocchi and represented the right-wing of the party.

The faction was formed on 31 January 2009 by those members of Refoundation for the Left who decided not to leave the party, after that the majority of that group had left the party in order to form a new political party on the left, the Movement for the Left (MpS).^[1] These included, among many others, Giusto Catania, Milziade Caprili, Tommaso Sodano, Rosa Rinaldi and Marilde Provera.^[2] Soon after Rocchi and his group took back the "Refoundation for the Left" name.

References

^ "Prc, Vendola conferma l'addio nasce Rifondazione della sinistra - Politica - Repubblica.it". www.repubblica.it.
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External links

Official website

Communist Refoundation Party

Secretaries

Sergio Garavini (1991–1994)
Fausto Bertinotti (1994–2006)
Franco Giordano (2006–2008)
Paolo Ferrero (2008–2017)
Maurizio Acerbo (2017–present)

General

Italian Communist Party
Proletarian Democracy
Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist)
Prodi II Cabinet
Eurocommunism
Liberazione
Young Communists
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Party of the European Left
European United Left–Nordic Green Left

Factions and splits

Current factions	In the 2017 congress, two motions were presented: the majority one led by Paolo Ferrero and the minority one led by Eleonora Forenza.
Former factions	Bertinottiani Refoundation in Movement To the Left with Refoundation
Splintered factions	Movement of Unitarian Communists (1995) Party of Italian Communists (1998) Communist Alternative Party (2006) Communist Project / Communist Workers' Party (2006) Critical Left (2007) Refoundation for the Left / Movement for the Left (2009) The Ernesto (2011) / Italian Communist Party (2016) Countercurrent (2013) HammerSickle / Left Class Revolution (2016) Being Communists (2016)