Cp Backs State Crackdown

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But in a situation of generalised economic crisis where capitalism not only cannot grant any new demands, but must claw back reforms won in the past, in truth programmes useless.

What is needed instead is a programme of transitional demands which extend a fight for democratic rights into a struggle for state power itself.

Browne's party will not, nor can it elaborate such a programme precisely because it wants to channel the independent strengths of the working class into parliamentary bye-ways, "left" though these may be.

Restlessness

Its formation at this period is symptomatic of the growing restlessness within the Irish working class, their disenchantment with the impotent official Labour Party and their desire for a party which can lead them out of the present situation.

It is too early to say with any certainty precisely what role this new group will play in Irish politics.

Most likely it will end up as a pressure group to the left of the official Labourites, but most certainly it will be unable to provide the revolutionary leadership which alone can solve the economic and political problems Italy's 'Red Brigades' have once again claimed responsibility for a continued wave of terrorist attacks.

Last week attempts were made to kill or injure an editor of the Fiat-owned newspaper La Stampa and a director of the part-nationalised company Ansaldo, who is a member of the italian Communist Party.

In the face of events of this kind the Italian Communist Party has lined up completely behind the respressive policies of the bourgeois state which are directed by Interior Minister Cossiga (who is the brother in law of CP secretary general Enrico Berlinguer).

After the latest series of attacks, the CP had gone further down this treacherous path.

In an interview last week in the Milan Daily Corriere della Sera the party spokesman on law and order, Ugo Pechioli, spells out very clearly the way in which the Italian CP has abandoned svart chrad of Marvicm in ire Berlinguer total collaboration with the bourgeoisie Pechioli is now calling for the mobilisation of the masses to defend the bourgeois state and its repressive apparatus.

"The defence of the democratic state" said Pechioli, "cannot only be delegated to the police and the courts. If violent groups or their accomplices exist in a factory they must be denounced by other "We should strive for 1 inhabitants of the suburbs the. big cities to tell t authorities what they ha learned, that they tell the about what they see".

Pechioli claims he is = talking about the peo: becoming informers spies' but he then sugge that local committees are 1 up to assist the police a security forces of the state.

"For the popular forc and for the State, terrorism an enemy which must fought by every means"

Pechioli went on support the illegal operatio of the state security orp sations. "An efficient it mation service is indispensal and no one imagines that can operate mn an entire legal manner To ask of a secret age that he works openiy si formal respect for the lam contradictory, ridiculous"

Thus the Italian Stalins driven on by the logic of ta: long-term alliance with lei: Tory Party: the Chris Democrats. now begina exceed even the Tories 1e:e70e : te