In the name of the name, or the end of the Italian Communist Party and the birth of the Party of communist refounding, Jean-Yves Dormagen. On November 11, 1989, Achille Occhetto, the General Secretary of the PCI, announced publicly, without having warned the other leaders, that the largest West European communist party was going to change its name and symbols. The extraordinary emotion that this declaration caused in the party's sections showed that the term "communist" constituted for tens of thousand of militants a necessary and inviolable sign of recognition around which a coherent and unified identity was formed. The symbolic manipulations and the liturgic confrontation that the partisans and opponents of the PCFs transformation would r...