Cp Anxious to Avoid Power

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Piat managing director Umberto Agnelli is standing as a Christian Democratic candidate in the Ifalian elections because he says the party needs "renewing". security service.

With some reluctance, Christian Democrats voted to end Saccucci's parliamentary immunity and (after he had been given time to disарреаг) a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was later arrested in London.

The CP has reacted to this not by calling for measures of workers' self defence but by calling on the fascist-wooing Christian Democratic government to "enforce the law"!

While the Christian Democrats fight to retain power, the CP is fighting to avoid winning it.

All the CP wants, its leaders repeat, is to shore power - with the parties of the capitalists.

This is part of what party secretary Enrico Berlinguer, in a meeting organised by the French CP in Paris, called "euro-communism"

"NATIONAL Euro-communism, he made clear, is not about power for the working class but about "national unity" and "stability"

In other words about giving the bourgeoisie what, either with or without CP help, it so desperately needs to impose the massive costs of the economic crisis on the working class.

The CP-supporting daily Paese Sera •proudly quotes a statement from the former secretary general of the Gaullist Party (UDR) in France, saying that in Italy the CP is the party most capable of producing this stability and unity.

This election is about power in a maso nanfarnd anco than Berlinguer addressing CP rally in 1973 who is in the coalition.

It could open up à road leading towards workers' power, but only if the treacherous collaboration of the CP landar is paiantor The first step along this road must be the formation of a government of workers' parties for which it seems certain that the election -*11