Just a small indication of the | with the left parties. mindless hysteria the state Is fostering. The capitalat press is Tall of appeals for working class and anti-fascist unity!
against the Red Brigades by implication. the far-left in general.
The day after the kidnapping all the papers compared the event to an assassination atCommantst Party Jeader Togliatti in 1948L (Anna Libera's report from Rome on tis page shows how the most militant workers are not ready to he se casily hoodwinked.) SPECULATION There has been the inevitable speculation Kidnapping was carried out by police or fascists as a pretext for military intervention and that the Red Brigades ure either a Tas cist organisation or the onwitting dupes of the lascists There are precedents Arned (NAP), an aried group which the Red Brigades base links, has been well infiltrated by the right.
And there is the example ol 'GRAPO, the shady Spanish group which kidnapped wo prominent figures a vear apo.
But without evidence specuTation is pointless. There has been no 'official" Ked. Brigade statement discimming responsibility so presumably approve of the set EX-STUDENTS I les the pattern. The Red Brigades originated in che carly 1970s, mainly made up of for met students who had taken part in the struggles of the late 19605 and acre disillusioned To start with these dispensers of popular justice had soing limited support in the factories and calleyes, but that soon began ta diss pare af their sraand, tegy became to provoke a fas cil coup to stimulate a revival st the left.
DEFEAT So, whether or not the Red Brigades are infiltrated by the • ripht. they are setting out with a counter-revolucionary goal •a conscicus bid to inflict a massive deleat on the workers" movereit.
Sol, their despair is explic able, if not delensible decade of the Red Brigade has also been one of chronic confusion on the far more importantly, rightward deft by the Comminist Party (PCİs It is hardly coincidence that the kidnapping The closely on the foretal cotry of Nuclei the PCi into the government majority.
COMPROMISE The "lucoric with Christian Democracy has been the party' aim ever since general ICI5I1Berkriguer, EECE LESS EAC tallere of the Chilean Popular Unity Governmeal was cause of its desire to move t00 thes fast, abenacing the capitalisa class and scare He resolved that this mistake should not be repeated in baby.
So keen was the PC to ente the governmental bloc that it coesn't care that it has no tepreser tatives in the soverement itself. This alone has angered many PCI supporters Hu: the problem is the go Tact that the major workers' party is ready to govern alongbeen the PCI's stock in trade for a while now, as it has supSUREL workers' johs and pay used its union confederation to stamp down on members who want to organise resistance.
But austerity strengthening to deal wi working oppositon, and it is the repressive clauses mental agrcement which have the most direct bearing on the The Moro case:
STRONG STATE Teft, and. of a rapid This gutsuingers gives police almost unlimited power lo use firearms. It inTollowe creases judges power to Ictusc attack arrested Ironically the PCI apposod the use of confine" compromise Like leuda banishment to a distant sland against the Maria. Then it was Enrico an attack an civil lihernier.
Bat it's quite alright now its being used agains; lefi-wing (AC- STENCINE PRETEXT But if is hardly LUNATIC The has manner thrcats against the accacks Party. and But ai50 means state powers class goverla cage inside thie court.
gunmen charler the PCI.
Red Brigades bail and police powers to arrest | back!
no the riches of those rightist takeover which 3s The only and isolated. when it was used TERROR velopine.
The Rod Brigade attacks do nothing to Mett Chese represe rather ches give a small in number, pretext lor strengthening state surprising that people should despair of the possibility of calvanising the working ciass toro action Lists too.' Brigades TEVE benaved in the most tunatic had hoped to use their martyr parliculatly Radical smal! civil grooping) because one of the judges is a Radical meriter.
notbing jessities the state's treatment of the Red They are raken to and fram the courtrooms chained together round the neck like slaves and kept in There is no security rationale for this: there are more polico thao City on a sunny Saturday. It is just an arrogant display state strength, fully backed by And wey re turposed the decided to hit The Red Brigades have no. thing to offer the working class but a dead end tat best or a l worst). reassuring thing
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