Movement of Unitarian Communists

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The Movement of Unitarian Communists (Movimento dei Comunisti Unitari, CU) was a communist political party in Italy.

It was founded in June 1995 as a split of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) by those Communist MPs who had voted the vote of confidence to the government of Lamberto Dini (supported also by the Democratic Party of the Left, the Italian People's Party and the Northern League) in March 1995.

Most members of MCU were from the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP). This party left Proletarian Democracy in 1984 and merged with the Italian Communist Party, to leave it when it changed name into PDS in 1991. At that time most ex-PdUP members joined PRC.

The leading politicians who formed MCU included Sergio Garavini, Lucio Magri, Luciana Castellina, Famiano Crucianelli, Luciano Pettinari, Ersilia Salvato, Rino Serri, Marida Bolognesi and Walter Bielli. In 1996 they presented some candidates in the lists of PDS.

In 1998 MCU finally merged with PDS and other small parties to form the Democrats of the Left.