Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party

Partito Comunista Italiano Marxista-Leninista, PCIM-L) was a small communist party in Italy. The party was founded on December 3, 1999 by the Centre of Marxist Culture and Initiative (Centro di Cultura e Iniziativa Marxista).[1]

Marxist-Leninist Italian Communist Party

Partito Comunista Italiano Marxista-Leninista
LeaderDomenico Savio
Founded3 December 1999
Dissolved13 March 2020
HeadquartersVia Provinciale Panza, 37 - 80075 Forio (NA)
NewspaperComunismo
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Website
http://www.pciml.org/

The party is based in Forio, a commune in the province of Naples. It was headed by Domenico Savio, an anti-revisionist communist who favors a strict interpretation of the ideology in accordance with the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin[2]. In October 2004, Savio and his PCIM-L managed to obtain 2,244 votes (6.9%) during the Chamber of Deputies supplementary election in the college of Napoli 1 - Ischia.

In the 2006 general election PCI M-L ran a list in the Campania region for the Italian Senate, with Savio as the head of the list. PCIM-L got 26,029 votes (0.856% of the vote in that region, 0.08% of the national vote).

In May 2013 Savio ran for mayor of Forio, getting the 12,89% of votes and was elected as municipal councilor.[3] In june 2018 Savio ran again for major of Forio, only getting 2,33% of votes and thus losing his seat.

On 13 March 2020 Domenico Savio died at eighty years of age, concluding the experience of the PCIM-L[4].

References
  1. "Leftist Parties of the World". Archived from the original on 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2006-04-11.
  2. "PCIML website". Archived from the original on 2006-02-15.
  3. Elezioni 2013, Francesco Del Deo eletto sindaco di Forio Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Ischia piange Domenico Savio, segretario del Partito Comunista Italiano Marxista Leninista". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2020-03-13. Archived from the original on 2020-03-14. Retrieved 2020-05-28.

Partito Comunista Italiano Marxista-Leninista


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