For a Revolutionary Left

For a Revolutionary Left
Per una Sinistra Rivoluzionaria
LeaderMarco Ferrando
FoundedDecember 2017
Dissolved2018
IdeologyCommunism
Trotskyism
Revolutionary socialism

Anti-Stalinism
Political positionFar-left
Colours  Red
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 630
Senate
0 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73

For a Revolutionary Left (Italian: Per una Sinistra Rivoluzionaria, PSR) was a coalition of Trotskyist parties in Italy. Founded in 2017 to run in the 2018 Italian general election, its leader was Marco Ferrando.

Composition

Parties Main ideology Leaders
Workers' Communist Party (PCL) Communism Marco Ferrando
Left Class Revolution (SCR) Communism Claudio Bellotti

Both parties were Trotskyist, even though they adhered to different strands of Trotskyism as well as different political internationals. Moreover, both of them were for a long time factions within the multi-tendency Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) and later splinter groups of that party.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election Leader Chamber of Deputies Senate of the Republic
Votes % Seats Position Votes % Seats Position
2018 Marco Ferrando 29,176 0.08
0 / 630
19th 32,501 0.10
0 / 315
18th