Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana

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Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana
FGCI logo from 1949
Secretary General Gianni Cuperlo (until 1990)
founding 1921 (1949)
resolution 1990
Headquarters Rome
Youth organization International Communist Youth Association
newspaper Avanguardia, Nuova Generazione
Alignment communism
Number of members over 200,000 (early 1960)

The Federazione Giovanile Communista Italiana (FGCI) was the youth association of the Partito Comunista Italiano .

history

The FGCI was founded in 1921 as a youth association of the communists after the decision to split the Communist Party of Italy from the Socialist Party of Italy . After the Second World War , it was decided in 1949 to re-establish the FGCI. The constituent congress of the FGCI, the youth organization of the Communist Party of Italy, took place in Livorno from March 29 to April 2, 1950 . Enrico Berlinguer , then 28 years old , was elected the first national general secretary of the youth organization at this congress. He held this office until 1956. On December 19, 1990, on the occasion of the 25th and last congress of the FGCI, the dissolution of the association was decided with 356 votes out of 491 voters (72.5%). Two months later, the Italian Communist Party was dissolved, which became the Democratici di Sinistra .

membership

Young people from the age of fourteen could join the FGCI. Until the age of twenty-one, the member enrolled in the FGCI and the Partito Comunista Italiano generally took part in the political life of the youth association. The work of the two organizations was based on the principle of respect for mutual autonomy, even if politically the same goals were pursued.

Start-up

In 2016, a Communist Party of Italy was founded again, which took over the historical name of the Partito Comunista Italiano and at the same time also founded a new youth association with the name Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana.

National Congresses

The first eight congresses up to 1921 were held as the youth association of the Italian Socialist Party.

FGCI section Merano on the memorial day of April 30, 1950. Second row left: Eugenio Beltrami
FGCI membership card, 1950
  • 9th Congress - Rome , 1922
  • 10th Congress - Biella , 1926
  • 11th Congress - Zurich , 1931 (in exile)
  • 12th Congress - Livorno , 1950
  • 13th Congress - Ferrara , 1953
  • 14th Congress - Milan , 1955
  • 15th Congress - Bologna , 1957
  • 16th Congress - Genoa , 1960
  • 17th Congress - Bari , 1962
  • 18th Congress - Bologna, 1966
  • 19th Congress - Florence, 1971
  • 20th Congress - Genoa, 1975
  • 21st Congress - Florence, 1978
  • 22nd Congress - Milan, 1982
  • 23rd Congress - Naples , 1985
  • 24th Congress - Bologna, 1988
  • 25th Congress - Pesaro , 1990

National Secretaries

Enrico Berlinguer , National Secretary of the FGCI from 1949-56 (photo 1950)
Demonstrator with flag of the newly founded FGCI (2016)

swell

  • Bruno Bernini , Il programma e l'organizzazione della FGCI nel suo statuto , Sl, Gioventù nuova, 1950.
  • Ugo Pecchioli , La FGCI scuola di comunismo , Sl, Gioventù nuova, 1950.
  • Enrico Berlinguer et alii, Il ruolo dei giovani comunisti. Breve storia della FGCI , Rimini-Firenze, Guaraldi, 1976.
  • Marcello Sarno , con Marino Sinibaldi (a cura di), Il movimento degli studenti medi in Italia (1970–76). Analisi e documenti di AO, LC, PdUP, PCI-FGCI , Roma, Savelli, 1977.
  • Angelo Chiesa , Dal 'Fronte della gioventu' alla FGCI. La vita politica dei giovani varesini. 1944-1950, sl, sn, 1978.
  • Donatella Ronci , I giovani comunisti dalla Liberazione al 1957 , sl, sn, 1980.
  • Pietro Folena , I ragazzi di Berlinguer. Viaggio nella cultura politica di una generazione , Milano, Baldini & Castoldi, 1997; Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2004.

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