Political realignment in Italy
By Martin Thomas At the Lutte Ouvriere fete, on 26-28 May 2007, near Paris, I talked with Roberto Luzzi of Pagine Marxiste and with Franco Grisolia of McPCL , and attended a forum given by the PdAC . General background: in 2005 Rifondazione comunista (PRC, the only large leftish splinter to come out of the decomposition of the European Communist Parties) joined the Unione, an electoral alliance of 11 parties under the leadership of the Christian Democrat Romano Prodi. PRC refused to join the previous Prodi coalition, the Olive Tree, and in 1998 forced the fall of a previous Prodi government by...