to advance revo wronary brood ganda against against the sarist state.
The participation tionaries in anv bourgeois election is a tactical question, since we are for the overthrow of even the most democratic bourgeois parliament. If Socialist Press also such tactical objections to participation in the Spanish elections a fruitful debate would be possible, since even now a change position may be necessary depend ing on the conditions in which the elections are neid Slanderous ultra-leftism, on the other hand, is hardly productive.
and SOLIDARIDAI WOTAGES KING JUAN CARLOS SPEAKS recent TAel NO ONE CAN STOP ME OH, MY ROAD TO DEMO TOMT TO LEGALIZE ALLDEMOCRATK PARTIES NOW IT IS STILL too early to know exactiv how the student movemen will develop, but its sudden reapwishes to raise pearance as a political and social force has come as the biggest blow absentions' — the system by which of the minority Government is maintainee ny ine aos endors oll Communist Party (PCI).
The student movement looked as if it were a thing of the past and had come to restructure the universities alone Immes morc accepl able to the bourgeois state, returning to the selectivity of the period prior to 1968. Education Minister Malfatti drew up his 'reform' on behalf of the Christian Democrats and the PCI drew up their 'reform' which was the different wrapping paper. So far the PCI's proposals have beer rejected in every students assembly in the country.
COLLISION The PCI's tactics inevitably led to a head-on collision with student movement, based as they were on an incorrect assessment of ine adulty or rerormism to contai the situation. *Government of the On one movement itself.
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complete contempt for UnIOnS tO anti-fascist strike!) The murder of an Italian left wing student by the police and the treacherous reaction of the Communist Party to the rise struggles in the universities have pushed the student movement to the centre of the class struggle.
side the Communist Party has organised rallies to condemn the 'fascist behaviour of the students, while on the other the opposition to the capitulation of the Communist Party to the Government has become more vociferous in the workers Militant workers have followed the example of Rome students in shouting down trade union leader Luciano While this action cannot be supported, it is an index of the anger felt by Italian militants at the role of the Communist Party ALAN HUDSON, recently returned from Italy, reports on the rebirth of the Italian student movement.
and Luddites' CanG condemning the occupation of the SUlE it was nor this students angry response. It was the aggression of the 'stewards' whom Lama brought with him who were responsible for throwing paint and using fire extinguishers. The PCI was driven out of the university, but only because it had tried to impose its own will on the moveThe PCI's next move showed its WOrKCIS democracy, It used its position in call a strike an against stuthe strike had been called.
A typical reaction in the factories was: We couldn't strike against Andreotti's austerity measures or against the fascist attacks. Why should we strike because Lama has been whistled at in the university? The unilateral way in which the strike was called without previous consultation provoked anger even in those sections of the bureaucracy not under the control of the PCI. The strike was a miserable failure and only served to show work how the PCI had isolated itself. CONDEMN they see it colliding head-on with the movement. One exception to •alstorica coveldee by the bourgeois press is the photograph published by La Stampa of similar events in urin showing re stewards collecting metal bars from a van before entering the university.
The name "Metropolitan Indians' has been coined during the recent events. It means the students, worker-students and unemployed youth who identify with the Red Indians of America and their history. But they have no intention of being marginalised as the ceo nolans were. nev wish to maintain control of the university such as is. Hen any dElcHor to restructure the university and fight This identification with plight of the Red Indians is for the reformist and bourgeois press alike sure proof of the immaturity of the movement. But the movement is not a re-run of 68-69. It reflects the experience of the mass of working class youth who have entered the college gates, out will never and It is a contradiction in the heart of Italian society which both Berlinguer of the PCI and Prime Minister Andreotti know that they have to nut in order before they
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