10 Facts About Luciano Lama

Luciano Lama was an Italian trade unionist and politician, General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1970 to 1986.

When he was very young, Luciano Lama joined the Italian Socialist Party and took part in the resistance movement, contributing to free the city of Forli from the Nazis.

In 1946, Luciano Lama joined the Italian Communist Party, with which he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1958, in 1963 and in 1968.

Luciano Lama left his seat when he joined the Italian General Confederation of Labour, being elected Secretary-general of the trade union in 1970.

On 17 February 1977, Luciano Lama was violently contested at the University of Rome by a group of young people, who adhered to extra-parliamentary positions.

In January 1978, in an assembly at the EUR in Rome, Luciano Lama proposed to the workers a politics of sacrifice, aimed at healing the Italian economy.

In 1987, Luciano Lama was elected with the Communist Party to the Senate and was re-elected in 1992 with the Democratic Party of the Left.

From 9 July 1987 to 14 April 1994, Luciano Lama was appointed Vice-president of the Senate.

In 1989, Luciano Lama was elected Mayor of Amelia, a town in the province of Terni, and was re-elected in 1994, when he became the first Mayor elected directly by the people of Amelia, receiving support by the whole Alliance of Progressives.

Luciano Lama died in office on 31 May 1996, at the age of 74, after a long illness.