Unified Communist Party of Italy

Unified Communist Party of Italy (in Italian: Partito Comunista Unificato d'Italia) is a political party in Italy. PCUd'I was founded at a congress in Rome in May 1977.[1][2] PCUd'I was formed through a merger of the Communist Organization of Italy (Marxist-Leninist) and two smaller groups.[3] The party upheld the Three Worlds Theory and retained contacts with the Communist Party of China following the death of Mao Zedong.[3] The party vehemetly opposed the Soviet Union and the Italian Communist Party.[1] The general secretary of PCUd'I is Osvaldo Pesce.[4]

Founding congress of PCUd'I, May 1977

PCUd'I held its third party congress in Florence in July 1978, which reaffirmed the adherence of the party to Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought.[5][6]

PCUd'I publishes Linea Proletaria.[4][7]

PCUd'I is a part of the Communist Coordination.

References
  1. Il Politico. Università degli studi di Pavia. 1983. p. 143.
  2. Peking Review, No. 25 June 17, 1977 p. 29
  3. Robert Jackson Alexander (2001). Maoism in the Developed World. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-275-96148-0.
  4. Translations on South and East Asia. Joint Publications Research Service. p. 6.
  5. Peking Review. Peking Review. 1978. p. 23.
  6. Ciarán Ó Maoláin (1988). Political Parties of the World. Longman. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-582-02626-1.
  7. L'Europeo: settimanale politico d'attualità. 1979. p. 28.
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