ENRICO BERLINGUER

Enrico Berlinguer (1922-1984) Italian Politician. Iscrittosi to the Pci in 1943, entered in the central committee in 1945 and from 1949 to 1956 he was secretary of the FGCI. Member of the national secretariat in 1958, divenne vice-secretary in the 1969 and secretary in 1972, happening to Luigi Longo. In 1973 it started a new course of politics of the Italian Communist Party, proposing the “historic compromise”. After the electoral successes of june 1975 and 1976, its politics produced the historical result to let in the party in the government majority, but it had reflected negatives in electoral field. In November 1980 the proposal of the government of the lefts launch, opened to the laici and the catholic progressives, but the relationships with the socialist party went more and more deteriotating. It then lead a hard opposition to the guided pentapartito one from Craxi, species on you decree economic and for the reduction of the wage mechanisms of the escalator. On these topics the proposal of a popular referendum launch, that it not only inside sanctioned the defeat of the Pci and the fracture of the left but also in same labor organizations (1984). To the defeat of its political proposal on the internal plan (historic compromise) corresponded, on the international plan, failing of the expectations of the eurocommunism as a result of the decline of the French Communist Party and that Spanish. Picked from malore while it held a meeting to Padova in the course of the campaign for the European elections, Berlinguer died little after.