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political group. It used to be a faction within the

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. The group emerged in 2006 as a split from Communist Project, when their leader

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decided to leave the party in order to form his own Workers' Communist Party. For the 24–27 July 2008 congress the faction formed a common list with

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, another minority faction, and obtained 7.7% of the delegates. In that occasion they supported the election of

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, leader of the

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motion, as party secretary, thus joining for the first time the majority of the party. In 2010 the faction embraced the

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. In 2013, the party was the most important promoter of the massive Genoa Public Transportation Strike that went on for a week and was considered the biggest non-general strike of the year. In 2017, Controcorrente left the CWI over disagreements regarding, among other issues, the role of the

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and

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. A large minority including mostly younger members split from Controcorrente to remain part of the CWI (now

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), forming a new organisation named Resistenze Internazionali.

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