Unite the Left

Unite the Left (Unire la Sinistra) was a minority faction within the Party of Italian Communists (PdCI), a political party in Italy. Its leaders included former minister Katia Bellillo and MEP Umberto Guidoni.

The faction was formed before the July 2008 congress of the PdCI by those who supported the continuation of The Left – The Rainbow and a common path with the other far-left political forces. Bellillo was a candidate for party secretary, but gained only 17% of the support among party members and was defeated by incumbent Oliviero Diliberto. The minority however harshly criticized the party leadership for a lack of democracy in the party.^[1]

On 8 February 2009 Unite the Left finally quit the PdCI in order to form a joint-list 2009 European Parliament election with the Movement for the Left, the Federation of the Greens, Democratic Left and United to the Left.^[2][3] The list was named Left Ecology Freedom and was founded as a party on 22 October 2010.

Leadership

• President: Umberto Guidoni (2008–2010)
• Secretary: Luca Robotti (2008–2010)

References

External links

• Official website

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Historical political parties in Italy

Communist

• Proletarian Unity Party (1972–1984)
• Italian Communist Party (1921–1991)
• Proletarian Democracy (1978–1991)
• Party of Italian Communists (1998–2014)

Democratic socialist

• Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party (1881–1893)
• Italian Workers' Party (1882–1892)
• Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (1964–1972)
• Democratic Party of the Left (1991–1998)
• Democratic Left (2007–2010)
• Left Ecology Freedom (2010-2016)

Social-democratic

• Italian Reformist Socialist Party (1912–1926)
• Unitary Socialist Party (1922–1930)
• Action Party (1929–1947)
• Unitary Socialist Party (1949–1951)
• Unified Socialist Party (1966–1969)
• Italian Socialist Party (1892–1994)
• Italian Democratic Socialist Party (1947–1998)
• Democrats of the Left (1998–2007)
• Italian Democratic Socialists (1998–2007)
• Article One (2017–2023)

Green

• Rainbow Greens (1989–1990)
• Federation of Green Lists (1986–1990)
• Federation of the Greens (1990–2021)

Radical and social-liberal

• Action Party (1853–1867)
• Italian Radical Party (1904–1922)
• Democratic Party (1913–1919)
• Constitutional Democratic Party (1913–1919)
• Italian Democratic Liberal Party (1919–1926)
• Social Democracy (1922–1926)
• Labour Democratic Party (1943–1948)
• Republican Democratic Concentration (1946)
• Radical Party (1955–1989)
• Democratic Alliance (1993–1997)
• The Network (1991–1999)

Centrist and liberal

• Liberal Union (1913–1922)
• Democratic Union for the Republic (1998–1999)
• Union for the Republic
• Italian Renewal (1996–2002)
• The Democrats (1999–2002)
• Segni Pact (1993–2003)
• Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (2002–2007)
• Civic Choice (2013–2019)
• Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–2018)

Regionalist and federalist

• Movement for the Independence of Sicily (1943–1951)
• Federalists and Liberal Democrats (1994–1996)
• Federalist Italian League (1995–1996)
• Great South (2011–2013)

Christian-democratic

• Italian Catholic Electoral Union (1906–1919)
• Conservative Catholics (1913–1919)
• Italian People's Party (1919–1926)
• Christian Democracy (1943–1994)
• Italian People's Party (1994–2002)
• Christian Democrats for the Republic (1998)
• Christian Democratic Centre (1994–2002)
• United Christian Democrats (1995–2002)
• European Democracy (2001–2002)
• Christian Democracy for Autonomies (2005–2009)
• Union of Democrats for Europe (1999–2013)

Liberal-conservative

• Economic Party (1919–1924)
• National Democratic Alliance (1953–1954)
• Italian Liberal Party (1922–1994)
• Forza Italia (1994–2009)
• The People of Freedom (2009–2013)
• Future and Freedom (2010–2014)
• New Centre-Right (2013–2017)
• Conservatives and Reformists (2015–2017)
• Direction Italy (2017–2019)
• Cambiamo! (2019–2022)

National-conservative

• Common Man's Front (1946–1949)
• Monarchist National Party (1946–1959)
• People's Monarchist Party (1954–1959)
• Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (1959–1972)
• National Democracy (1977–1979)
• National Alliance (1995–2009)

Nationalist

• Italian Nationalist Association (1910–1923)
• Combatants' Party (1919–1923)
• National Fascist Party (1921–1943)
• Republican Fascist Party (1943–1945)
• Italian Social Movement (1946–1995)

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• 19th-century Italian political groups
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• Current Italian political parties

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