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The Revolutionary Marxist Association – Communist Project (''Associazione Marxista Rivoluzionaria – Progetto Comunista''), more frequently referred simply as Communist Project, was a
Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...
faction within the
Communist Refoundation Party The Communist Refoundation Party ( it, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is a communist political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo, who replac ...
(PRC), a
political party in Italy This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern ...
. Its leaders were
Marco Ferrando Marco Ferrando (born 18 July 1954, in Genoa) is an Italian Trotskyist activist and politician, the leading member of the AMR Progetto Comunista current in the Movimento per un Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori ( Movement for the Communist Workers' ...
and Franco Grisolia. The faction was largely, though not entirely, a continuation of ''AMR Proposta'', which was the largest section in the International Trotskyist Opposition, and was the second largest section in the
Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) was a Trotskyist international organisation. Its name in Spanish was ''Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional''. It was formed in 2004 at a c ...
. In January 2006 Ferrando was chosen as one of the candidates of the PRC for the 2006 general election. This caused a division within Communist Project, as a minority led by Francesco Ricci opposed the candidacy of Ferrando, who was eventually excluded from the lists shortly after, when some of his remarks against
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caused outrage within and outside the party. In June 2006, after the entry of the PRC into
Prodi II Cabinet The second Prodi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008, a total of 722 days, or 1 year, 11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic, it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislatur ...
and disagreements not only with the party majority, at the time led by the ''
Bertinottiani The Bertinottiani were an Italian political faction around Fausto Bertinotti, the leader of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) from 1994 to 2006. In 1998, in the wake of the crisis of Romano Prodi's first government, Bertinotti convinced the m ...
'', but also with the other minority factions,
The Ernesto The Ernesto (''L'Ernesto'') was a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy. The group emerged in February 2007 as a split from Being Communists, the faction led by Claudio Grassi, and took the name from ''L'Ernesto'', a communist ...
and
Critical Left Critical Left ( it, Sinistra Critica, SC) was a communist and Trotskyist political party in Italy, affiliated to the Fourth International. History Originally a Trotskyist faction within the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), it broke ranks on ...
, over Italian military involvement in
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, the leaders of the faction decided to leave the party and launched the
Workers' Communist Party (Italy) The Workers' Communist Party (Italian: ''Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori'', PCL) is a communist party in Italy. It was created in 2006 by the Trotskyist breakaway wing of the Communist Refoundation Party led by Marco Ferrando. The PCL is the ...
(PCL). Two months before the group led by Ricci had already left the party in order to launch the
Communist Alternative Party The Communist Alternative Party (''Partito di Alternativa Comunista'', PdAC) is a communist political party in Italy. Its leader and founder is Francesco Ricci. History In April 2006 some members of Communist Project, a trotskyist faction withi ...
(PdAC).


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