CARC Party

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CARC Party Partito dei CARC
Secretary
Founded	21–22 November 1992
Headquarters	Via Tanaro 7, Milan
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Maoism Neo-Stalinism
Political position	Far-left
Website
https://www.carc.it/
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The CARC Party (Italian: Partito dei CARC) is a far-left extra-parliamentary political party in Italy. CARC is the acronym of "Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza per il Comunismo" (Committees to Support the Resistance for Communism).

History[]

The CARCs were founded with a constitutive convention held in Viareggio on 21 and 22 November 1992 in which people who in the 70s had been part of Marxist-Leninist, pro-Chinese, autonomous and Trotskyist groups participate. The organization’s first secretary general elected was , who had been investigated for subversive association in 1981 and was then acquitted in 1986.

Present mainly in Campania and Tuscany, over the years it ended up at the center of strong controversy regarding the links between the party and the subversive movements operating in Italy. A few months after its foundation, the organization stood on antagonistic positions with the aim of having a guiding role towards the proletariat, as established in the 1998 document entitled "Project of Manifesto – Program of the New Italian Communist Party". In 1999 the preparatory commission for the founding congress of the (new) Italian Communist Party took place in hiding, made public in the periodical La Voce del Partito Comunista, document in which a clandestine organism in government of the legal organization. This form of coordination subsequently attracted the attention of the Ministry of the Interior which placed the CARCs in the galaxy of left-wing subversion, contiguous to terrorist groups even if not directly involved in criminal actions.^[1]

The CARCs weakened by two splits, the first in 1997 when a group of militants left to found the LineaRossa group for the reconstruction of the Italian Communist Party, the second and two years later and a few days before the murder of when the minority groups referring to Padua, Foggia and Vicenza are accused by the majority of the national secretariat of "movementism and anarchist tendencies" and of deviation from the organizational line.

In 2001 the Popular Front list for the reconstitution of the Communist Party as presented. According to the secretary , this operation was intended to bring together forces in the perspective of the reconstruction of the communist party. At the end of the same year, the investigation against Maj was closed.^[2]

In 2009, following the third Active Ideological Struggle, the CARCs became a party taking the name of the CARC Party.

In the 2011 municipal elections in Naples, the CARC party openly supported the former magistrate Luigi de Magistris, arousing not a few controversies.

In the 2013 parliamentary elections the CARC party decided to take sides in favor of the Five Star Movement.^[3]

In the third national congress held in October 2012, socialism was reaffirmed as a horizon, to be achieved through support for movements and a "People's Bloc Government" to counter the crisis.

Leadership[]

• Secretary: (1992–1999), (1999–present)

References[]