IK 9 – 2007 US
Country Report /
Länderbericht / Informe del país / Rapport de pays
CARC, Italy
COUNTRY REPORT
In the latest two years in Italy, there are
been many significant events for Communist movement's rebirth and for the
development of popular masses' struggle.
On October 2004, it was founded the (new)
Italian Communist Party ((n)PCI), as a clandestine party. On November 2004, the
Statement of its foundation affirmed that the Party "was born in order to
complete the work the first Italian Communist Party let unfinished, that is to
make Italy a new socialist country and so to contribute to the world proletarian
revolution." The (n)PCI declared that its task was to resume the way begun
by the first Italian Communist Party (PCI, the party of Antonio Gramsci), constituted
in 1921. That party carried out a heroic resistance against Fascism, gaining
consideration and support by the working class, until it take the direction of
the popular masses and led them to victory in the Resistance (1945). However,
starting from the Fifties, owing to internal and international factors and to
its own errors and limits, in the party the modern revisionists led by
Togliatti prevailed. They have led again the popular masses under imperialist
bourgeoisie's direction and the party to corruption, desegregation and
dissolution.
The birth of (n)PCI started a debate within the
CARC, that ended in the Spring of 2005. The CARC recognized the (n)PCI as the
embryo of future headquarters of the working class, and gave it their full
trust. Afterwards, on April 2005, an Extraordinary Congress sanctioned the
transformation of the CARC. They were an organization working for the
reconstruction of the communist party. Then they became a party that has
brought Communists to enter again in a field let to bourgeois and revisionist
parties for years, the field of bourgeois political struggle. This was a particular
task within the general struggle carried out by the (n)PCI, for making Italy a
new socialist country. The CARC believe necessary to carry out the work in this
front of the struggle, where the Communists are almost completely absent,
because this front involves, interests and mobilizes a very great part of
Italian popular masses. It is the field of the electoral campaigns, the
activity of Parliament and other elective Assemblies, the campaigns of public
opinion’s orientation, the demonstration and the strikes organized by the
bourgeois organizations. The CARC enter in this field of struggle for defending
the freedom of political and social action conquered by the Resistance against
Nazi. Fascism and for showing to the widest masses that popular masses’ and
imperialist bourgeoisie’s interests are not compatible. In fact, the
bourgeoisie has answered to the initiative of our Party with a hard and
continuous repression, with inquiries, house searches, sequestration of
computers and documents, defamatory campaigns through the media. All this
demonstrates that the bourgeoisie want to carry out its electoral theatre
without the Communists, because their presence in that theatre shows how fake
its democracy is.
In these two years we saw the end of the government
of Berlusconi's gang. Berlusconi didn't succeed in carrying out the program
assigned to him by the class that really rules our country (the imperialist
bourgeoisie, constituted by industrials, bankers, Vatican, US imperialists and
Mafia). According to this program he had to dig as deeper and more quickly as
possible into workers’ and popular masses’ conquests. Wide workers and popular
masses’ struggles wrecked the bourgeoisie’s plans and overwhelmed Berlusconi’s
gang. The most significant struggles were at Scansano, against the incinerator,
at the FIAT of Melfi, in Susa Valley, against the construction of the High
Speed Railway, and the one carried out by the tram drivers in Milan.
After Berlusconi’s fall, the government of
Centre Left Circus began. Its leaders are Prodi, ex Christian – Democrat,
D’Alema, ex member of the revisionist Italian Communist Party, Bertinotti, ex
trade unionist leader, and Epifani, leader of the CGIL, the greatest Italian
trade union. They are trying to be successful in what Berlusconi failed. The
current events completely confirm our thesis according to which Centre Left and
Centre Right have the same common program. Prodi’s government hopes to realize
it by different methods, not by the Berlusconi’s arrogance, not fighting the
trade unions of the regime. For the first time it directly involves all the
parties of bourgeois Left and the so called Communists, who got many Ministries
and the Presidency of Chamber of Deputies. Besides, Prodi’s government got
agreement and support by the trade unions of the regime, particularly by the
CGIL and its secretary Epifani, and creates very profitable jobs and positions
for thousands of exponents of working class’ aristocracy.
On the international level, the US imperialist
and their allies are suffering defeats facing the popular masses’ resistance in
Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon, communist parties are carrying out
revolutionary popular wars in Nepal, Philippines, India, Turkey, and a strong
anti-imperialist movement is growing in Latin America and all over the world.
The rebirth of the popular and communist movement advances everywhere and in
this situation the principal task of Italian Communists and other vanguard
struggling people and organizations is to carry out the mobilization against
the imperialist bourgeoisie’s common program. This is the only way for
preventing Prodi from doing what Berlusconi’s gang wasn’t able to do. Owing to
the corruption and desegregation carried out by Centre Left parties and trade
unions of the regime among the workers and the popular masses, we need a
qualitative leap in order to struggle effectively against the Prodi’s government.
We believe that this qualitative leap is the development of a popular front
politics, struggling against the bourgeoisie’s common program, for defending
and extending workers and popular masses’ rights and conquests in every field,
that is in political, cultural, social and trade union fields. In order to do
it we need to build a more ramified and strong organization of the popular
masse, really politically and ideologically independent from the bourgeoisie.
We need to give more determined and farsighted political objectives to every
struggle of resistance and popular aggregate. These advanced objectives are
summed up in the slogans “let’s make Italy a new socialist country” and
“rebirth of the international communist movement”.
Free and open confrontation, unity in the
struggle and class solidarity are the words indicating the process of
transformation and strengthening of the struggle against imperialism and for
socialism, in our country, in our international relations, and within the
international communist movement..
Support Committees to the Resistance for Communism (CARC) - ITALY