Communist Alternative Party Partito di Alternativa Comunista
Leader	Francesco Ricci
Founded	7 January 2007
Split from	Communist Refoundation Party
Headquarters	Via Luigi Lodi 68, Rome
Newspaper	Progetto Comunista
Youth wing	Giovani Comunisti Rivoluzionari
Ideology	Communism Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	International Workers League (Fourth International)
Website
partitodialternativacomunista.org
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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 within the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), left the party and launched the PdAC, which was officially founded on 7 January 2007. In June 2006, the Communist Project itself left Communist Refoundation under the new name of Communist Workers' Party.

In the 2008 general election the PdAC, that candidated Fabiana Stefanoni for Prime Minister,^[1] obtained the 0.01% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies (the party presented its list in the only constituency "Lazio 2").

In the 2013 general election, with Adriano Lotito as candidate, the party presented its list only in Apulia and obtained 0.02% of the vote for the Chamber and the 0.01% for the Senate.

Party relations

The PdAC is affiliated to the International Workers League (Fourth International), a Morenist Trotskyist political international.^[2] The party has a very conflicting relationship with the Workers' Communist Party (PCL), another Trotskyist political organization in Italy.^[3]

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Regional Councils