The Fate of the Party
The crisis of today’s Italian left has its roots in the transformations of the Italian Communist Party in the 1960s and ’70s.
1 Article by: Gian Mario Cazzaniga
Gian Mario Cazzaniga born in Turin in 1942, was professor of moral philosophy at the University of Pisa until 2012. He was a prominent figure in the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and then in the Italian Communist Party (PCI). In 1966 he participated in the foundation of the CGIL Scuola (the communist-socialist trade union for education), and he was nominated its national secretary in 1976. He retired from political activity in 1997.