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rdav Anril 4-the political needs of Italy's hallmarks of a Red Brigade in the safe keep 210,000 public sector jobs.

5. Reduction of social service charges.

6. An active and concerjobs, Politics of wages and OOS.

This is linked with "six measures for social justice" which include things like revision of the tax system, of VAT and taxes on large fortunes.

Mitterand has also campaigned for a reduction in the retirement age.

The Socialist Party has no policies to deal with the problems of the capitalist economic crisis and has put forward a classic reformist position.

Allegiance

Mitterand has, however, particularly over the last sen years gained the allegince di very large sections :: corking class.

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Because oi the illusions now vested in the SP by important sections of the working and middle classes we will support a çritical vote for Mitterand if he emerged as the best placed workers" party candidate.

Saturday April 4-the day they caught Mario Moretti-was for Mr Rognoni "the finest day of my life since I became Minister of the Interior"

Mario Moretti, long time best known leader of the terrorist Red Brigades, has for years been Italy's most wanted person unti police captured him in Milan.

For nearly a decade the small left-wing terrorist organisations have snubbed the authority of Italy's political rulers-most notably when they held hostage and then killed Christian Democratic leader Aldo Moro two years ago.

Judges. magistrates, generals and ministers have gone in fea: of their lives.

Poliniall: COuISe mors see de source of Line solitcal the deep divisions E0:a within the Christian Democrats and between them and the other parties of the government coalition.

Equally it is not terrorism which represents the political needs of Italy's working class. But terrorism has brought out in an extreme form and exposed the craven collaboration of Italy's dominant working class party, the Communist Until a recent tactical turn towards "opposition" the CP has consistently supported attacks on democratic rights, in the form of anti-terrorist laws.

in its vociferous support for repression of terrorists by the bourgeois state, the Cl expresses one side of its policy of class betrayal which assists groups like the Red Brigades and First Line to recruit sections of the radical petty bourgeoisie to their false politics.

In view of all this the politicians of both the bourgeois parties and of the CP would heave a sigh of profound relief if the arrest of Mario Moretti meant the and o: terrorism despite the fact ra ihs aho woult remune : wr= :eptesNc tillar Unioranate i them, however. scarcel! bad the key turned in the lock of Mario Moretti's prison cell than there were new terrorist atiacks bearing all the hallmarks So Mr Rognoni's finest day didn't last long.

But, worse than that, new storm clouds are gathering for the Italian bourgoiesie.

It is not only terrorism which continually undermines the authority of the bourgeois government-but also financial scandal.

The latest scandal revolves around a list of 500 politicians-of the Christian Democratic and other parties -who had used accounts in one of the banks of Michele Sindona to illegally transfer funds out of the country between 1972 and 1974.

40 billion lire is alleged to have been transferred in this way.

Michele Sindona is now serving a 25 year jail sentence for fraud in the United States.

But his former right-hand person Carlo Bondoni has been extradited from the US and is now being interrogaied by an all party parliamentary enquiry.

The incriminating list of 500, Bondoni admits, was in his possession but he entrusted it to a friend who put it It is little wonder that growing sections of the Italian ruling class-headed by the Republican Party which is close to the northern industrial bourgeoisie-are trying to devise a more technocratic government with fewer professional politicians in it, and including perhaps nominees of the relatively clean and reputable Communist Party. in the safe keeping of a lawyer and then died suddenly, having conveniently failed to tell Bondoni who the lawyer was!

So the list is officialiy lost. But Bondoni has already "remembered" 31 names from the list for the parliamentary enquiry.

These 31 included the president of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani, who is also the leader of the most anti-communist wing of the Christian Democratic Party.

Bondoni's list is a threat not only to the Christian Democratic political leaders, but also to the other parties, since the tirst 31 also include a leading Socialist Party MP, Giacomo Mancini.