The workers of Motta and Alemagna, two glant corecaoncry companies faced with wholesale redundancies, have promised to build other Leyland-Innocenti'. Last winter workers of Leyland-Innocenti, faced with the closing of the factory, mounted a massive occupation against redundancies.
In Genoa 8000 Italseider workers occupied the tramway depots and organised mass assemblies demonstrations in the streets, while the main motorway out of Milan was blocked by striking workers from several firms, including Fargas and Banti.
As yet these struggles are uncoordinated and without any clear political leadership. The PCI and CGIL are still capable of absorbing these particular struggles into their own reformist framework. But it is becoming clear that large numbers of those workers who voted for the PCI in June do not accept the practical implications of the 'historic compromise'. They are taking the first steps on the road to sweeping away Christian Democratic