ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some specific conjunctural determinants affecting both the transformation of the party and the political system. It presents the joint theses of Ingrao's and Cossutta's currents, which appeared under the name of Rifondazione Comunista and which were metamorphosed into the future Communist Party of Italy. The chapter describes the theses of Bassolino-Tronti-Asor Rosa, which are bound up with the question of the party identity and programmatic physiognomy, inasmuch as Bassolino himself was to have been appointed by the party as coordinator of the working groups in the run-up to the October programmatic Conference. It discusses the arguments shaping the identity of the Italian Communist Party/Party of the Left, and offers general speculation on the juxtaposition of new revisionism-communist refoundation, which is intrinsic to the tensions existing within the Italian Left up until the present.
