Pietro Ingrao (30 March 1915 – 27 September 2015) was an Italian politician and journalist who participated in the

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. For many years he was a senior figure in the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...

(PCI).

Political career

Ingrao was born at Lenola, in the

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. As a student he was a member of GUF (Gruppo Universitario Fascista) and won a "Littoriale" of culture and art. Ingrao joined the PCI in 1940 and took part in the anti-fascist resistance during

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. After the war, he led the Marxist-Leninist tendency in the party, representing its left wing. This led him to frequent political differences with

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, leader of the social democratic tendency. Ingrao was a Member of

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continuously from 1950 to 1992. In 1947–1957, he was editor-in-chief of the party newspaper, '' L'Unità''. He was the first Communist to become President of the

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, a position he held from 1976 to 1979. After PCI's then-secretary Achille Occhetto, in what was called the ''Svolta della Bolognina'', decided to change the party's name, Ingrao become his main internal opponent. In the PCI's 20th Congress of 1991, he joined the

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majority in its successor, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), but soon left the group. After the European elections of 2004, he abandoned PDS and adhered (as an independent) to the more hardline successor to the old PCI, the Communist Refoundation Party. He has written a number of poems and political essays. His most important work is ''Appuntamenti di fine secolo'' ("Rendez-vous at the end of the century"), published in 1995 in collaboration with Rossana Rossanda. Ingrao was an atheist. He married , who died in 2003. Ingrao died on September 27, 2015 at the age of 100.''Addio a Pietro Ingrao, morto a Roma lo storico dirigente del Pci''
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'', 27 September 2015.

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