13 Facts About Giancarlo Pajetta

Giancarlo Pajetta was an Italian communist politician.

Giancarlo Pajetta attended Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio for his high school studies and joined the Communist Party of Italy during this time.

Giancarlo Pajetta took up the pseudonym Nullo, after 19th century Italian patriot Francesco Nullo.

In 1933, Giancarlo Pajetta returned to Italy in secret, but was arrested and sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment by the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State.

Giancarlo Pajetta was freed on 23 August 1943, after the fall of Fascism.

Giancarlo Pajetta subsequently took part in the early phase of the partisan resistance with the Garibaldi Brigades, of which he was de facto deputy commander.

Giancarlo Pajetta was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 and then was a deputy in the lower house of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death.

Giancarlo Pajetta was elected to the European Parliament in 1979 and 1984.

Giancarlo Pajetta was briefly director of the party newspaper L'Unita, in 1947 and from 1969 to 1970, and of the Marxist periodical Rinascita, from 1964 to 1966.

In 1947, Giancarlo Pajetta took part in the armed occupation of the prefecture of Milan, in protest for the removal of prefect Ettore Troilo.

Giancarlo Pajetta was one of the most respected Communist politicians after World War II.

Giancarlo Pajetta later opposed Achille Occhetto's project of transforming the PCI into a social-democratic party.

Giancarlo Pajetta died suddenly in Rome in September 1990, before the dissolution of the PCI.