Marco Ferrando (born 18 July 1954, in

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...

) is an Italian

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activist and politician, the leading member of the AMR Progetto Comunista current in the Movimento per un Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori ( Movement for the Communist Workers' Party), and a member of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. In February 2006, in the build-up to the

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, he was removed from the PRC's list of candidates for the

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because of his support for the right of Iraqis to resist occupation, and criticism of

Zionism Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after '' Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Je ...

. When the PRC joined the current center-left government, the AMR Progetto Comunista left the PRC. After that, they dissolved and formed the Movement for the Communist Workers' Party. He is an atheist.Official facebook page.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrando, Marco 1954 births Living people Politicians from Genoa Communist Refoundation Party politicians Italian atheists Italian communists Italian Trotskyists