The Ernesto (L'Ernesto) was a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy.
The group emerged in February 2007 as a split from Being Communists, the faction led by Claudio Grassi, and took the name from L'Ernesto, a communist publication.
The leaders of the splinter group were Fosco Giannini, a senator at the time, and Gianluigi Pegolo.
In the run-up of the July 2008 congress the faction formed a common list with Counter-current, another minority faction, and obtained 7.7% of the delegates.
In that occasion they supported the election of Paolo Ferrero, leader of the Refoundation in Movement-Being Communists motion, as party secretary, thus joining for the first time the majority of the party.