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image by Andrea Pollett, 22 April 2009
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Originally, Sinistra Critica was an internal faction of the
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation
Party). When the latter joined the coalition called la Sinistra
Arcobaleno (the Rainbow Left), in December 2007, Sinistra Critica
broke off, mainly due to disagreement with the foreign policy
issues of the new partners.
Sinistra Critica took part to political elections for the first
time in April 2008.
The flag measures 140 x 100 cm. The upper 1/4 is white, the
rest of the flag is red. In the white part runs the word
"Sinistra" (in blue). In the red part is a small
human-shaped star (the party's logo) followed by the word
"Critica" (in white); further down is the sickle &
hammer symbol (in yellow) encircled in the lower half by a
smaller text that reads "ecologista comunista
femminista" ("ecologist communist feminist", in
white). All the aforesaid elements are rotated by 11 degrees to
the left.
At the right end of the flag runs vertically the URL of the
party's webpage ("www.sinistracritica.org",
in dark red). All lettering on the flag is in bold
Arial/Helvetica font.
Andrea Pollett, 22 April 2009
The symbol — a stylized human figure suggesting also a five-pointed star, is
the same as Portuguese party Left Block.
António
Martins-Tuválkin, 27 April 2010
image by Andrea Pollett, 20 March 2010
A variant of this flag exists, with purple instead of red (purple
being the traditional colour of the feminist movement).
Andrea Pollett, 22 April 2009
image by Tomislav Todorovic,
14 September 2012
The party also uses another flag, which arranges most of the same symbols in a different way. On dark red field, a large incomplete human-shaped star is depicted in white at the hoist, positioned so as to look as if it is just entering the field at the hoist edge. Party name is inscribed between the star and the fly edge, also in white. A white panel in form of a narrow right triangle occupies the whole bottom edge, its hypotenuse beginning in the bottom hoist corner and its right angle placed in the bottom fly corner; the panel is charged with the the party webpage URL "www.sinistracritica.org" in the same shade of red as the flag field, second-level domain name "sinistracritica" inscribed in bold letters.
image by Tomislav Todorovic,
14 September 2012
This flag also has a "feminist" variant, which
replaces dark red color with dark purple.
Both variants of the flag can
be seen in a photo at the Wikimedia Commons
repository, which was made at the National Gay Pride march in Rome, on
2007-06-16:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sinistra_critica_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_2.jpg
Both attached
images are created as the modifications of a large image of party flag, which
is available for download from the party website:
http://www.sinistracritica.org/files/sincri/files/mat/bandierasincri1.jpg
Tomislav Todorovic, 14 September 2012
