Sergio Garavini (18 May 1926 – 7 September 2001) was an Italian politician, writer and trade unionist.
Biography
Garavini was born in
Turin.
At a very young age, he entered the
Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the trade union
Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), which he contributed to reform after the defeat in the
FIAT
Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (, , ; originally FIAT, it, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino, lit=Italian Automobiles Factory of Turin) is an Italian automobile manufacturer, formerly part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and since 2021 a subsidiary ...
internal elections of 1955. He was subsequently regional secretary of CGIL, secretary of FIOM (CGIL's metallurgic workers confederation) and, finally, national secretary of CGIL.
In the trade union conflict between
Fausto Bertinotti (who always favoured strikes) and
Sergio Cofferati
Sergio Cofferati (born 30 January 1948) is an Italian trade unionist and politician. Secretary general of CGIL from 1994 to 2002, Mayor of Bologna for the Democrats of the Left from 2004 to 2009 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 20 ...
(more incline to mediation), Garavini usually sided for the first policy, but also proposed intermediate solutions such as the intermittent strike or the permanent consultation.
As a member of PCI, he supported
Rossana Rossanda when she formed the party-newspaper ''
il manifesto'' and was later expelled from the party, but Garavini never abandoned it. He was a staunch supporter of the automatic recovery of salaries against inflation, which was introduced thanks to CGIL in 1975. He was elected in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies in June 1987, being confirmed in the elections of five years later.
When PCI secretary
Achille Occhetto
Achille Leone Occhetto (; born 3 March 1936) is an Italian political figure. He served as the last secretary-general of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) between 1988 and 1991, and the first leader of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), the p ...
proposed to renounce to the party's communist nature and to form the
Democratic Party of the Left, Garavini founded, on 15 December 1991, 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 ...
,
of which he was national secretary until 1993, when he resigned, being replaced by Fausto Bertinotti.
In 1995 Garavini, then a deputy for the Communist Refoundation, voted confidence to the center cabinet led by
Lamberto Dini, in contrast with his party's guidelines. Subsequently, he left to form, together with the party's right wing such as
Lucio Magri and
Famiano Crucianelli, the
Movement of Unitarian Communists
The Movement of Unitarian Communists (, MCU), or simply Unitarian Communists ( it, Comunisti Unitari), was a communist political party in Italy.
History
The party was founded in June 1995 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) ...
, which in 1998 merged with the
Democrats of the Left.
Garavini wrote numerous essays on Italian politics and trade unions, such as ''Ripensare l'illusione. Una prospettiva dalla fine del secolo'' of 1993. He died in Rome in September 2001.
See also
*
Shadow Cabinet of Italy (1989)
References
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1926 births
2001 deaths
Politicians from Turin
Italian Communist Party politicians
20th-century Italian politicians
Communist Refoundation Party politicians
Italian trade unionists