Marco Ferrando (born 18 July 1954,

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) is an Italian

Trotskyist Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ...

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 2006 Italian general election, he was removed from the

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(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

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. 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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrando, Marco 1954 births Living people Politicians from Genoa Communist Refoundation Party politicians Italian atheists Italian communists Italian Trotskyists