Marco Ferrando [SEP] place of birth
Marco Ferrando
Marco Ferrando (born 18 July 1954 in Genoa) is an Italian Trotskyist 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 PRC's list of candidates for the Senate of Italy because of
Bertinotti. The group refused to be part of the new government, maintaining that such participation would be disastrous. Moreover, following the exclusion of their leader Marco Ferrando from the electoral list of the PRC for the elections to the Senate in the 2006, his followers pushed for a split in the party to maintain a communist opposition to the new government.
The birth of the movement was seen as a response to the emergence of two new left-wing political parties: the Democratic Party (PD), the fusion of