Fiat's mass victimisations
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tionary "struggle against pretext for a ruthless attack terrorism" since they are on the rights and organisaLast week Fiat, Italy's largest capitalist enterprise-part owned by Colonel Gadaffi's Libyan regimelaunched an unprecedented wave of victimisations against worker militants.
61 workers were sacked on October 9 by Director Giovanni Agnelli. They were all charged with having violated the principles of "peaceful coexistence in the workplace"
Since 1975 three Fiat executives have been killed and 19 wounded in terrorist attacks.
Agnelli implied that the 61 victimised workers were responsible for • these attacks.
The campaign against terrorism is thereby used as Italian car workers a pretext for getting rid of the most militant workers in Fiat's Turin factories.
The trade union leaders have responded with half-hearted protests designed to sabotage any real struggle against the Fiat management's actions.
The Communist, Socialist and Catholic unions AL T organised (badly) a token 3 hour [!] strike against the victimisations.
But they criticise the sackings not as a basic attack on the organised working class but on merely legalistic grounds, arguing simply that no detailed accusations were made against the 61.
The Stalinist and SP leaders are in any case in no position to combat the reac- nnaition to ramhat the rear themselves part of it.
They have backed every reactionary move of the Christian Democratic government to strengthen the repressive apparatus of the bourgeois state.
Fiat's home city of ‹unt, • main centre or terrorist activities, has a Communist Partv mavor who has tried (unsuccessfully) to deal with the situation by swelling the police force by 2,000.
If the Fiat 61 are successfully to resist their victimisation, massive mobilisatións of the Italian working class are required around a programme which rejects any support for the actions of the bosses and their state against terrorism.
DuCI actions are Crinh anterna tion of the working class.
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