Marco Rizzo

Marco Rizzo (born 12 October 1959) is an Italian politician. A longtime communist activist, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2004 and a Member of the European Parliament for North-West Italy from 2004 to 2009. He was initially active in the Italian Communist Party and later joined the Communist Refoundation Party and the Party of Italian Communists. After his expulsion from the latter in 2009, he founded Communists – Popular Left, which was subsequently renamed the Communist Party, and served as its general secretary from 2009 to 2023.