Hello, comrades!

[DavidePRC]

Hi, comrades!
I am here, from Italy, in order to learn and discuss our struggles with fellow comrades from all over the world in this international and Internationalist site.
I am a member of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista and try to take part in political activity as much as possible.
I work as a carer to disabled and elderly people in a cooperative.

[Q]

Welcome :)

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How is the PRC doing these days? I understand it had something of a meltdown a while ago, following membership of the Prodi government.

[RedWorker]

Welcome, comrade! Long live the proletarian struggle!
What can you tell us about the ideology of the PRC? Do you yourself have any criticisms of it or the mainstream line?

[DavidePRC]

Thank you, comrades!
I have no reason to substantially disagree with the mainstream line of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista.
It is the oldest Communist party in continuity with the Partito Comunista Italiano, Gramsci's party, but it has suffered two big divisions, one at the time of the Prodi government in 1998, when the Partito dei Comunisti Italiani split, and in 2010, when the faction headed by Nichi Vendola, candidated but not elected as the secretary, broke away to form the Sinistra Ecologia e Libertà party.
I were undecided whether to vote for Vendola or Ferrero, the current secretary, but I voted for Ferrero. Notwithstanding the fact that I had sympathies for Vendola, I was really disappointed when he decided to break the party to ally himself with Partito Democratico. The P.D. is the party whose leader and Italian premier is currently trying to abolish the fundamental article 18 of the Workers' Statute, which is a protection against arbitrary dismissal, a statute fought for by generations of Communist and Socialist workers.