A Summary of FdCA Congresses

1985
Cremona, 26-27 October: 1st FdCA Congress

• Unification of the Organizzazione Rivoluzionaria Anarchica (Revolutionary Anarchist Organization - ORA) and the Unione Comunisti Anarchici Toscani (Union of Tuscan Anarchist Communists - UCAT)
• Adoption of a joint theoretical and strategic heritage
• Decision made to use the name ORA-UCAT for one year
• Council of Delegates elected
• National Secretariat of 3 members from Lucca, Florence and Pesaro
• Sections and members in Tuscany, Lombardy, Apulia, Marches and Veneto.
• The Coordinamento Comunista Anarchico (Anarchist Communist Coalition - CCA) of Fano, which had participated in the pre-unification debates and process, decides not to join the new organization. It would later become the Circolo Culturale Papini, some of whose members were also FdCA members, and was responsible for the organization of a series of anti-clerical meetings in Fano until 1997.

1986
Cremona, 1-2 November: 2nd FdCA Congress

• Adoption of the name Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Federation of Anarchist Communists - FdCA)
• Political Strategy
• Adoption of the Statute and Internal Regulations
• Election of national bodies
• "Homo Sapiens - materiali della sinistra libertaria" chosen as the FdCA's magazine.
• Election of Council of Delegates according to Statute.
• National Secretariat of 3 members from Lucca, Florence and Pesaro.
• Sections and members in Tuscany, Lombardy, Apulia, Marches, Veneto and Piedmont.
• Greetings to Congress from the Partito Anarchico Italiano and the Lega Comunista Rivoluzionaria.

1992
Livorno, March: 3rd FdCA Congress

• Unification of FdCA and Organizzazione Comunista Libertaria (Libertarian Communist Organization - OCL) of Livorno, which becomes an FdCA section
• The Livorno magazine "Comunismo Libertario" becomes the official organ of the FdCA
• National Secretariat to publish "Agenzia di informazione"
• Approval of documents of Political Strategy on:
  • The state of International Capitalism
  • Anarchist Communists and the Mass Organization
  • Anarchist Communism in Italy in the last 20 years
  • The environmental crisis and capitalist restructuring
• Election of Council of Delegates
• National Secretariat of 3 members from Florence and Pesaro
• Sections and members in Tuscany, Lombardy, Marches, Veneto and Friuli.

1994
Florence, 14-16 May: 4th FdCA Congress

• Political Strategy Congress. Documents adopted by majority vote:
  • "FdCA Programme for Action within the Social Movements"
  • "Anarchist Communists and the Institutional Question"
  • "Anarchist Communists and the Mass Organization"
• Election of Council of Delegates
• National Secretariat of 4 members from Florence, Pisa and Pesaro.
• Sections and members in Tuscany, Lombardy, Marches, Veneto and Friuli.

1994
Florence, 9 October: Extraordinary Congress of the FdCA

• The members of the Livorno, Lucca and Pisa Sections leave the FdCA. A majority of the Congress defeats the proposal from these Sections to transform the FdCA into a federation of synthesis without theoretical and strategic unity and collective responsibility. The magazine "Comunismo Libertario" remains with the Sections which leave, the majority of whose members join the FAI over the next few years.
• The Council of Delegates is deactivated
• National Secretariat of 3 members from Florence and Pesaro.

1997
Florence, 13-14 December: 5th FdCA Congress

• Congress of the Minimum Programme of the Anarchist Communists, containing elements of Political Strategy and General Tactics (Congressional documents published in Quaderni di Alternativa Libertaria)
• "Alternativa Libertaria" is adopted as the official monthly organ of the FdCA
• Council of Delegates is reactivated
• National Secretariat of 3 members from Florence and Pesaro
• Sections and members in Tuscany, Lombardy, Marches and Friuli.
• Observers from the CPA, Florence and the Circolo Zapata, Pordenone.

2004
Cremona, 19-20 June: 6th FdCA Congress

• Congress on the General Tactics of the Anarchist Communists (Congressional documents published in Quaderni di Alternativa Libertaria)
• "Antipodi" is adopted as the bi-annual open magazine of the FdCA
• "Alternativa Libertaria" is adopted as the online news-sheet of the FdCA
• Election of the Labour Commission, Ethics & Gender Policies Commission and the International Relations Office
• Election of Council of Delegates
• National Secretariat of 3 members from Fano and Crema
• Sections and members in Tuscany, Lombardy, Marches, Liguria, Lazio, Sicily, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Apulia, France, Switzerland and Portugal.
• Observers from Cremona and Pordenone
• Greetings from Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (Switzerland) – messages of greeting also from Workers Solidarity Association (USA) and Organización Libertária Cimarrón (Uruguay).

2006
Cremona, 1 October: 7th FdCA Congress

• Congress to update and improve the Federation's Basic Strategy. Papers approved on:
  • International capitalism and imperialism;
  • Globalization;
  • The liquidation of the State;
  • Final document containing elements for the FdCA Programme.
• Election of national bodies and the new Council of Delegates.
• National Secretariat made up of 3 members from Crema, Fano and Pesaro.
• Members and branches in the Italian regions of Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marches, Apulia, Sicily, Tuscany, Veneto and in Portugal and Switzerland.
• Observers from Cremona present.
• Greetings received from: Workers Solidarity Alliance (New York, USA); Jose Maria Olaizola of Apoyo Mutuo (Spain); Ilan Shalif of Anarchists Against The Wall (Israel-Palestine); Alternative Libertaire (France); Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (Southern Africa); Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (USA/Canada); Omospondia Anarkhikon Ellados (Greece); Anarşist Komünist İnisiyatif (Istanbul, Turkey); the Taçanka anarchist communist collective (Ankara, Turkey); the Coletivo pró Organização Anarquista em Goiás (Goias, Brazil); the Fórum do Anarquismo Organizado (Brazil); the Coletivo Comunista Anarquista (Bahia, Brazil); the Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (Switzerland)..