the party with the Mafia, CIA financing, and pay-offs from Lockheed.
The current crisis inside the Christian Democrats is so intense, in fact, that TV chiefs were unwilling to screen coverage or meir recent conerence. I was moust inat the signt or tne delegates neckung, interrupting and occasionally breaking into scuffles would only further discredit the Government.
The fascists, meanwhile, have taken Cont. from front page The election also means that the iong-awaited referendum on abortion will be postponed, perhaps indelinitely, because of the rule that referenda may norpe neen cecion years The Communist Party (PCI) has found both issues acutely embarrassing. The wage agreements were due to be state apparatus with the support of the a majority of deputies to the workers parties - the Socialists and the PCI. But the PCI will fight.tooth and nail against the formation of such a Government, because it would greatly raise the combativity and class consciousness of the Italian workers to the extent where they would burst through the policies of managing capitalism in Italy which form the backbone of its proSuCCumO to me cmcHuous Dressur exerted by the PCI, can build greatly in unis penod. in parnicular, a struggle for a government that excludes all representatives of the bourgeoisie and bases itself on an anti-capitalist programme expressing the struggle of the masses can reach out to the multi-millioned ranks of the Communist and Socialist balLy worKers wHo sul rela mus ons in their leaders.
will entail a fight for a clear programme of action which can defend the standard of living of the Italian workers, impose workers control over production, and bring about a generalised reduction ir the work week without loss of pay to cea win unempovment raso means battling against any attempt to eall off the mass struggles during the period of elections.
The Italian Trotskyists of the GCR will be fighting for a slate of the entire far left in the elections which clearly takes up the central concerns of the Italian working class with the aim of providing an alternative leadership to those workers who are beginning to look beyond the treacherous schemes of the PCI leadership. The far left in Italy, if they do not The struggle for such a government NAME A third of our time is up. But a third of our target isn't. That's the disappointing story this week in our fight for £1,500 a quarter for our Fighting Fund.
Of course, it's easy to get demoralised as the 'left' leaders do nothing to counter the anti-working class schemes hatched up by Healey and Jones. But as the General Strike showed 50 years ago, reliance on the 'lefts' is fatal. That's why Red Weekly fights for independent working class action to defeat the policies of Callaghan-HealeyJones and oust them from their positions of leadership in the labour movement. But we can only wage that fight effectively with your help.
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