Cp's Historic Sell-out
Socialist Press1978 1978-03-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Only one article in their pact with the seems to have disagreed with the leaders of the Italian Communist Party.
Their demand that the police unions should be Legally free to affiliate to the major union confederations was rejected by the bourgeois government party.
The demand in itself was a further example of the Stalinists' method of presentng the bourgeois state in a fiamourised, reformist distorcon. It is precisely this perscious 'analysis' which has *een used to justify the •ristoric compromise' The compromise has now seen realised on terms that regresent a degree of betrayal tha: is scarcely credible even such experienced seators.
Full support has been re*ed for the Christian Democrats "austerity proEarne of vicious attacks on he morking class. The CP has = repped formard as a • saunch advocate ::xе=03 en erd order.. 083083 e0:855:07 confederation, spelt out the full meaning of this: "moderate' wage claims and possibly state wage control; agreement to redundancies and plant closures; a pledge of higher productivity and co-operation with moves by employers towards speed up, rationalisation and 'job mobility'.
In return for this licence for an assault by the ruling class, the CP has secured absolutely nothing. Cynically responding to the guarantee of Stalinist support to maintain the government, Christian Democrat Prime Minister Andreotti has reshuffled his pack of ministers without including a single joker in the shape of 'left technicians' requested by Berlinguer.