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Power to the People (Italy)

Power to the People! (Italian: Potere al Popolo!, PaP) is a political party in Italy. It was launched in December 2017 as a left-wing joint electoral list of anti-capitalist parties and movements which ran in the 2018 general election.

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Marta Collot
Giuliano Granato
18 November 2017 (2017-11-18)
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Left-wing populismEuroscepticismAnti-capitalismCommunismSocialism of the 21st century
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Viola Carofalo, former national spokesperson and leader

Power to the People! (Italian: Potere al Popolo!, PaP) is a political party in Italy. It was launched in December 2017 as a left-wing joint electoral list of anti-capitalist parties and movements which ran in the 2018 general election.

In its manifesto, PaP's membership is described as "social and political, anti-liberal and anti-capitalist, communist, socialist, environmentalist, feminist, secular, pacifist and southernist left-wing", whose goal as a coalition is "to create real democracy, through daily practices, self-governance experiments, socialisation of knowing and popular participation".

The coalition was initially proposed by Ex OPG Je so' pazzo, a social centre in Naples. The proposal was endorsed by other social centers in the country, local committees and associations and finally some established parties whereas the idea of building a party and/or list was born during the Je so' pazzo Festival – 2016, which had as its name "Let's Build the Popular Power", held in Naples from 9 to 11 September 2016. The following year from 7 to 10 September 2017, there was in Naples the Je so' pazzo Festival – 2017, which had as its name "Power to the People!".

On 18 November 2017, Je so' pazzo's activists held a national assembly for the construction of a truly democratic movement that would give representation to social battles and to the ideas of individuals, social centers, associations and parties that felt themselves to be without representation. On 17 December, the coalition was officially launched with the support of the two main Italian communist parties, the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Contextually, that same day Viola Carofalo, a Naples-based university researcher in philosophy who had been a long-time activist of Ex OPG Je so' pazzo, was chosen as national spokesperson and as political leader on 6 January 2018. In the 2018 general election on 4 March, PaP obtained 1.1% of the vote and no seats.

On 18 March, PaP held a national assembly in which it was decided to continue its program. In January 2019, PaP considered running either independently or in a wider coalition in the next European parliament election, but it ultimately decided not to run.

In July 2021 senator Matteo Mantero, elected with the Five Star Movement, joined the party, giving it representation in the Italian Parliament.

During the Autumn of 2025, PaP promoted and participated in the 2025 general strikes and protests for Gaza and later, in March 2026, in the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.

After its founding in December 2017, PaP took inspiration from Momentum, the organisation supporting Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom and La France Insoumise, whose leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke of a "common adventure for the construction of a people's alternative for Europe". In April 2018, PaP "lent its support" to Maintenant le Peuple, an alternative European political party started by Mélenchon, Catarina Martins and Pablo Iglesias Turrión of the French La France Insoumise, Portuguese Left Bloc and Spanish Podemos respectively which was later joined by the Danish Red-Green Alliance, Finnish Left Alliance and Swedish Left Party. PaP called Maintenant le Peuple "a very important call proposed by three of the most popular alternatives from Europe [Left Bloc, Podemos and La France Insoumise], which we can not ignore".

At the same time, PaP is part of the International Peoples' Assembly, an international organisation grouping socialist forces such as the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement, the Zambian Socialist Party (Zambia), the South African National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the Palestinian People's Party.

PaP recognizes Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, criticizing the US intervention and calling for the release of Maduro and his wife.

PaP has criticized Israel for the Gaza genocide, supporting the Palestinian resistance groups and in particular the communist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Giorgo Cremaschi, national coordinator of PaP and its former spokesman, controversially denied that Hamas is a terrorist organization, highlighting that Hamas is formally recognized as terrorist only by Western countries.

At its birth when it was still an electoral list and not an organization, PaP has been endorsed by the following public figures:

  • Sabina Guzzanti
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Citto Maselli
  • Vauro Senesi
  • Ken Loach
  • Moni Ovadia
  • Camila Vallejo
  • Jean-Luc Mélenchon
  • Sahra Wagenknecht
  • Evo Morales
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Chamber of Deputies
370,320 (9th)1.10 / 630–Viola Carofalo
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Senate of the Republic
319,094 (9th)1.10 / 315–Viola Carofalo
RegionElection yearVotes%Seats+/−
1,753 (14th)0.60 / 35–
39,913 (11th)1.40 / 80–
8,048 (13th)0.40 / 50–
1,345 (16th)0.30 / 21–
10,289 (14th)0.70 / 51–
26,711 (18th)1.10 / 49–
40.743 (13th)2.030 / 50–
57.250 (6th)4.510 / 50–
  • National spokesperson: Viola Carofalo (17 December 2017 – 12 May 2021); Giorgio Cremaschi (12 January 2019 – 12 May 2021); Giuliano Granato (12 May 2021 – present); Marta Collot (12 May 2021 – present)

PaP used different logos:

  • Preliminary logo

  • Electoral logo

  • Potere al Popolo! – Noi ci stiamo, chi accetta la sfida? – official website

  • Potere al Popolo – official Facebook page

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