Marco Rizzo

Marco Rizzo
General Secretary of the Communist Party
In office
3 July 2009 – 21 January 2023
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byAlberto Lombardo
Member of the European Parliament
In office
20 July 2004 – 13 July 2009
ConstituencyNorth-West Italy
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
15 April 1994 – 19 July 2004
ConstituencyTurin (1994–1996)
Florence-Pontassieve
(1996–2004)
Personal details
Born (1959-10-12) 12 October 1959 (age 67)
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
PartyPCI (1981–1991)
PRC (1991–1998)
PdCI (1998–2009)
PC (2009–2023)
DSP (2024–2026)
ID (2026–present)
ProfessionPolitician

Marco Rizzo (born 12 October 1959) is an Italian politician. A longtime communist activist, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2004 and a Member of the European Parliament for North-West Italy from 2004 to 2009. He was initially active in the Italian Communist Party and later joined the Communist Refoundation Party and the Party of Italian Communists. After his expulsion from the latter in 2009, he founded Communists – Popular Left, which was subsequently renamed the Communist Party, and served as its general secretary from 2009 to 2023.

Rizzo has described his politics as a form of Marxist "popular sovereignism". He later became involved in Sovereign Popular Democracy (DSP), but left the party in 2026 amid disagreements arising from his contacts with Roberto Vannacci and his openness to a possible alliance with him. He subsequently founded Italia Domani, presenting it as a project intended to unite workers, the middle class, small businesses, artisans, farmers, and professionals against the economic and financial elite.

Biography

A graduate in political science in 1985, he was a lecturer in vocational guidance (1985–1994).

From 1986 to 1991, he was a member of the Turin Province party executive of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and joined the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in 1991, serving as its representative to the Council of the Turin Province until 1995. Between 1994 and 2004, he served in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy. From 1995 to 1998, he was coordinator of the National Secretariat of the PRC, then left to become a founding member and Italian Parliament group leader of the Party of Italian Communists (until 2004).

In July 2009, after his expulsion from the Party of Italian Communists (having supported the IdV's candidate Gianni Vattimo in the 2009 European election), he founded a new party called Communists – Popular Left (then renamed Communist Party). Marco Rizzo was a Member of the European Parliament for the North-West with the Party of Italian Communists, a member of the Bureau of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Political positions

Rizzo said that he declines his being Marxist in "popular sovereignism", and that would go to Europe (in the European Parliament) "with Sahra Wagenknecht, with Robert Fico [...], also with Orbán".

Rizzo has often criticized the LGBTQIA+ community and inclusivity, complaining about a perceived excessive presence of homosexual and black characters in films and advertising.

Rizzo has repeatedly denied climate change and its anthropogenic origin.

In 2026, Rizzo met and was in contact with Roberto Vannacci many times, having a partial agreement on remigration and not ruling out the possibility of an alliance, something that led to his departure from DSP and the creation of Italia Domani, asserting the need to "unite the people, such as the middle class, small businesses, artisans, farmers, and professionalsm with the working class [...] against the economic and financial elite".

Works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Archivio Corriere della Sera".
  2. 1 2 Radicale, Radio (3 July 2009). "Marco Rizzo presenta il movimento politico "Comunisti - Sinistra popolare"". Radio Radicale (in Italian). Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 David Parenzo a Marco Rizzo: "Sei ancora comunista? Sei passato da Cossutta a Orbán", "Sono un sovranista popolare rivoluzionario" (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2026 – via www.la7.it.
  4. 1 2 "Scontro su Vannacci, Marco Rizzo lascia Democrazia Sovrana Popolare". tg24.sky.it (in Italian). 30 July 2026. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Marco Rizzo presenta il partito "Italia domani", il nuovo progetto politico "del popolo unito" - Video". Adnkronos (in Italian). 3 September 2026. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  6. ↑ Romano, Alba (18 June 2024). "«Ho un'auto transgender, si sente motorino». Il post di Marco Rizzo sulla lite con il vigile". Open (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  7. ↑ "La rivendicazione scorretta di Marco Rizzo: "Mi piace la gnocca. Basta minoranze che impongono gusti sessuali"". la Repubblica (in Italian). 9 October 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  8. ↑ Clima, Marco Rizzo 'negazionista' attacca Paolo Sottocorona: "Capisco che devi larorare, sei stato crocifisso sei mesi fa" (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2026 – via www.la7.it.
  9. ↑ Rizzo, Marco (8 July 2025). "Ancora con questa balla climatica… ci avete rotto!". Facebook. Retrieved 9 February 2026.