ICP

IKP is often used as an abbreviation for Italian Communist Party , especially in German-language academic publications .

Translated abbreviation of Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI)

IKP goes back to the literal translation of the Italian party Nahmens Italian Communist Party , shortly PCI . Originally (from 1921 to 1943) the party used the name Partito Comunista d'Italia , which is translated correctly with the Communist Party of Italy and the abbreviation KPI .

The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) in the German-speaking part of Italy ( South Tyrol ) did not use the abbreviation IKP itself after 1945, but KPI, although linguistically this did not correspond to an exact translation of the party name from Italian into German. Formally, however, the abbreviation KPI (with the country name in the third letter) fits better into the context of the abbreviations for other communist parties in Europe (e.g. PCE and PCF ).

Name for other communist groups in Italy

In 1943 the " Internationalist Communist Party " ( Partito Comunista Internazionalista , abbreviated to "PCI" or, to better distinguish it from the "official PCI", "PCInt") was founded in northern Italy , which mainly comprised the anti-Stalinist and Orthodox-Marxist wing around the first party chairman of the KPI, Amadeo Bordiga , who only joined this party later, after the end of the war. Since 1961, with the establishment of a section of this party in France , the party was renamed Partito Comunista Internazionale , between 1973 and 1981 there was also a German section called “ International Communist Party ”, which of course was abbreviated to “IKP”.

A wing that split off from the IKP in 1953 around the organ Battaglia Comunista and Onorato Damen is still today called Partito Comunista Internationalista , which is usually abbreviated to “PCInt”.