Italian Communist Party

Italian Communist Party Partito Comunista Italiano
Abbreviation	PCd'I (Comunist party of italy) PCI (italian comunist party)
Founders	Antonio Gramsci, Amadeo Bordiga Bombacci
Founded	21 January 1921
Dissolved	3 February 1991
Newspaper	l'Unità(unity)
Youth wing	Federazione comunista giovanile (Communist Youth Federation)
Political orientation	Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism Later: Eurocommunism Revisionism Reformism
Slogan	PROLETARI DI TUTTO IL MONDO UNITEVI (WOEKED OF THE WORLD UNITE)

The Italian Communist Party (PCI) originally Comunist party of Italy (PCd'I) was a Marxist-Leninist, later Eurocommunist, party in Italy. It originated in a split from the Italian Socialist Party (psi) in 1921, when the pro-Comintern faction split off and formed the PCd'I.

The PCd'I eventually turned to revisionism and Eurocommunism; the party continued to exist in revisionist form until 1991, when the fall of the Warsaw pact resulted in the leadership fully capitulating to liberalism.

History

1. During the Prague Spring, the PCd'I defended Alexander Dubček's revisionist policies and described NATO as a defensive alliance. It later supported Gorbachyov's rejection of class struggle.