The Movement of Unitarian Communists (, MCU), or simply Unitarian Communists (), was a

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History

The party was founded in June 1995 as a split from the

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(PRC) by Communist MPs who had endorsed the vote of confidence in the

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(which was also supported by the

Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left (, PDS) was a democratic-socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party, the party was the largest in the A ...

, the Italian People's Party and

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) in March 1995. Most members of the MCU were formerly of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP); the PdUP had merged with the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party (, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was established in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Part ...

(PCI) in 1984, only to leave it when the PCI abandoned communism and reformed as the

(PDS) in 1991. At that time most ex-PdUP members joined the PRC. The leading politicians who formed the MCU included Sergio Garavini, Lucio Magri, Luciana Castellina, Famiano Crucianelli, Luciano Pettinari, Ersilia Salvato, Rino Serri, Marida Bolognesi and Walter Bielli. 16 out of 57 PRC parliamentarians and 2 MEPs joined the MCU. In the 1996 general election, the MCU was part of The Olive Tree, and presented some candidates in the electoral lists of the PDS as "PDS – European Left". In February 1998, the MCU and other small parties merged with the PDS to form the

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(DS).

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