Communist Party of Italy Partito Comunista d'Italia
Secretary	Cesare Procaccini
President	Manuela Palermi
Founded	11 December 2014
Dissolved	26 June 2016
Preceded by	Party of Italian Communists
Succeeded by	Italian Communist Party
Headquarters	Piazza Augusto Imperatore 32, Rome
Newspaper	La Rinascita della Sinistra
Youth wing	FGCI
Ideology	Communism
Political position	Far-left
European affiliation	Party of the European Left (observer)
Colors	Red
Website
comunisti-italiani.it
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The Communist Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Comunista d'Italia, PCd'I) was a short-lived communist party in Italy which represented a transition period between the Party of Italian Communists (1998–2014) and the Italian Communist Party (2016–present).

History

The PCdI, which took the name from the 1921–1926 Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I), emerged in 2014 from a transformation of the Party of Italian Communists (PdCI), a communist party launched by splinters of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in 1998. Before becoming a tiny party, the PdCI was a party of government and controlled dozens of seats in the Parliament.^[1]

Cesare Procaccini, a metalworkers' trade unionist who had replaced Oliviero Diliberto as PdCI's leader in 2013, was the party's secretary since its foundation while Manuela Palermi, a former senator, its president.

In 2016, the PCdI became the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which took the name from the 1926–1991 PCd'I ninety years after the latter's foundation. PRC splinters and minor groups also joined the new party.^[2][3][4]

Leadership

• Secretary: Cesare Procaccini (2014–2016)
  • Coordinator: Alessandro Pignatiello (2014–2016)
• President: Manuela Palermi (2014–2016)
• Honorary President: Antonino Cuffaro (2014–2016)