Alessandro Natta

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Alessandro Natta (born January 7, 1918 in Imperia , Italy ; † May 23, 2001 ibid) was an Italian politician and general secretary of the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) from 1984 to 1988.

Life

Natta comes from a Piedmontese family of the petty bourgeoisie , attended the elite school " Scuola Normale Superiore " in Pisa together with the former Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , where he took part in the anti-fascist struggle. His brother is the Nobel laureate in chemistry Giulio Natta . Natta graduated from Dottore in lettere .

During the Second World War he took part in the Italian-German conquest of Greece as an artillery lieutenant and was wounded in fighting. In the chaos that followed the Italian armistice with the Allies, he took part in the defense of Gaddurà airport on Rhodes against German attacks. Captured, he refused to collaborate with the German and Italian fascists and was interned in a prison camp on the island and deported to Germany , where he organized resistance among officers of the Italian military internees .

Natta returned to Italy in August 1945 to join the PCI in his home town of Imperia and to throw himself full-time into party work. He became a city councilor, secretary of the local party organization and temporarily a senior figure in internal party life. Together with Luigi Longo he became a member of the Central Committee and Politburo . In 1948 Natta was first elected as a member of parliament . From 1972 to 1979 he was parliamentary group leader of his party. He was a member of the Education Commission in all legislative periods . From 1984 to 1989 he was also a member of the European Parliament .

Palmiro Togliatti brought Natta into the party secretariat. In 1964 he accompanied Togliatti and Luigi Longo to Yalta , where Togliatti died. As a great supporter of Enrico Berlinguer and the " Italian road to socialism ", he gained a position in the party secretariat. In 1969 he rose with his report, which suggested expulsion of the Manifesto group. For a time, Natta was editor-in-chief of the theory magazine " Rinascita ". In March 1983 he was promoted to chairman of the Central Control Commission. After Berlinguer's death, Natta was elected general secretary of the party on June 26, 1984. He saw himself as an interim leader and mediated between the party wings. Although he continued to follow Berlinguer's political line, he tried to improve tense relations with the CPSU . He supported a trip to the USSR organized by Armando Cossutta , which caused serious controversy in the PCI. Natta was confirmed as general secretary at the 1986 party convention, but a heart attack forced him to resign prematurely in 1988. Achille Occhetto was his successor .

In the controversy over Occhetto's proposal for the historical renaming of the party to the Party of the Democratic Left (PDS), which led to the “Bolognina split”, Natta and Cossutta took a committed party against the renaming. The dissolution of the PCI after Occhetto's victory led to the birth of two different new parties, the majority party PDS with Occhetto at its head and the minority that founded the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista with Cossutta, Sergio Garavini , Lucio Libertini and others. Natta remained in the majority party with Pietro Ingrao , although he was not optimistic about their prospects.

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SURNAME Natta, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Imperia
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2001
Place of death Imperia