Movimento Comunista d'Italia

The Movimento Comunista d'Italia (MCd'I), best-known after its newspaper Bandiera Rossa,[1] was a revolutionary partisan brigade, and the largest single formation of the 1943-44 Italian Resistance in Rome.[2]

History

Growing out of communist underground circles like Scintilla that sought to recreate the Communist Party of Italy crushed in 1926, the MCd'I would clash with other anti-fascist forces, including Palmiro Togliatti's Moscow-backed Partito Comunista Italiano, over the correct attitude to take to the partisan struggle.

The MCd'I, which suffered some 186 deaths[3] among its close to three-thousand members under Wehrmacht occupation, advocated 'turning the war between nations into a war between classes' in 'the struggle to create a Soviet republic on Italian soil',[4] but it would be banned by the Western Allies soon after Liberation. Its leaders included lifelong communist militant Tigrino Sabatini (executed 3 May 1944),[5] Raffaele de Luca,[6] Antonino Poce, Felice Chilanti and Guido Piovene.

References

  1. ↑ "Bandiera Rossa (movimento)" (in Italian).
  2. ↑ Broder, David (March 2015). "I partigiani che volevano fare la rivoluzione". Micromega.
  3. ↑ Corvisieri, Silverio (1968). Bandiera Rossa nella Resistenza romana. Rome: Samona e Savelli.
  4. ↑ "Perché collaborare". Bandiera Rossa. 5 October 1943.
  5. ↑ "Donne e Uomini della Resistenza: Tigrino Sabatini". www.anpi.it. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  6. ↑ "Donne e Uomini della Resistenza: Raffaele De Luca". www.anpi.it. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
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