Party of Italian Communists

Party of Italian Communists Partito dei Comunisti Italiani
Leaders	Armando Cossutta Oliviero Diliberto Cesare Procaccini
Founder	Armando Cossutta
Founded	11 October 1998
Dissolved	11 December 2014
Split from	Communist Refoundation Party
Succeeded by	Communist Party of Italy
Headquarters	Piazza Augusto Imperatore 32, Rome
Newspaper	La Rinascita della Sinistra
Youth wing	Youth Federation of Italian Communists
Membership (2012)	12,500[1]
Ideology	Communism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation	The Olive Tree (1998–2004) The Union (2004–2008) The Left – The Rainbow (2008) Anticapitalist and Communist List (2009) Federation of the Left (2009–2012) Civil Revolution (2013) The Other Europe (2014)
European affiliation	Party of the European Left (observer)
International affiliation	IMCWP
European Parliament group	GUE/NGL (1998–2009)
Colors	Red
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The Party of Italian Communists (Italian: Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, PdCI) was a communist party in Italy^[2] established in October 1998 by splinters from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). The split was led by Armando Cossutta, founder and early leader of the PRC,^[3] who opposed Fausto Bertinotti's leaderhip and, especially, his decision to withdraw support from Romano Prodi's first cabinet. In December 2014, the party was transformed into the Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I), which would later evolve into the new version of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).