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Dealing with the far left

Red Weekly No. 152, 27 May 1976 · p. 11 of the scan · 267 words

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national leadership. Minucci concentrated on two secondly, that there was a need to step up the attack out of the factory.

influence much wider layers. That represents a force which, during and after the campaign, will be able to left groups in Italy is causing the PCI considerable conTen days ago, the PCI's section in Fiat called a meeting of its militants to organise the party's election campaign in the factory. Of the party's claimed membership of 1,700 in Fiat, only 100 workers (including just one woman) turned up to hear A. Minucci from the party's points: first, it would be wrong to say in the campaign that 'we're going to finish with the Christian Democrats';

against the extra-parliamentary groups and chase them The far left groups together account for about a hundred militants in Fiat, who are consistently active and attempts to compromise on the demands of the workers will find itself in trouble.

The PCI fears this even more than the possible loss of 3 or 4 per cent of the vote to the far left. How to deal with this threat? Very soon the Fiat discussion took a turn more commonly seen in the French Communist Party: "We control the factory gates, we must prevent these groups from distributing their leaflets' (loud applause). Only one worker said that it was necessary to put forward political arguments against those of the far Thus was launched the campaign of the party which 'doesn't talk abstractly of the crisis but puts forward credible solutions which can lead the country out of the Anna Libera

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