lists will s. The miners' strike of San ami Val d'Amo in 1924 was arted by the fascists. In October National Socialism supported rike of 10,000 Berlin metal ers. In 1932 the nazis even joined with communists to instipate erlin transport strike. te right to strike was abolished May 1933 in Germany. By the independent trade unions een dissolved and workers were d to join the fascist 'union. Italy, the Fascists collected of union members and, under Is of violence, forced them to he fascist unions, Soon the s would hire only workers who Fascist union cards. icy had made it possible for profits to be made by capital. e years, the nominal wapes of i workers were cut by half, heir real wages by much more.
KAMPF the workers' movement...and won!!
ammunist Party headquarters in Berlin on January 22, I932 ter and Robin Beauciair. her mate of Hancock's is ton antique-dealer James Doyle, founded the Racial Preservation ty in June 1965. Needless to say, ling light in the RPS is Robin clair, who was chairman of its on Committee. ayle once attended a Hitler birthwarty with NF chairman John All, taking along his own bodyFarmed with a sawn-off sbotgun. ESPECTABLE' FASCISTS his rag bag of Hitler devotees abid racists have come together the aim of building a fascist nient. Despite presenting a more table' public face, the NF is is its exposure of fascist demagogyThis feature arises from the paradox of fascism: it is a movement which mobilises people reduced to misery and despair by the capitalist class, yet does so only in order to put them at the latter's disposal to revive its profits by doing its dirty work against the workers movement.
This paradoxical situation means that the fascist militants often join the ranks of the movement's bloody victims after it has taken power. Both Mussolini and Hitler had to conduct enormous purges of their organisations. Mussolini had to got rid of 150,000 members of his party. Hitler had thousands of SA men shot down in the streets.
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The plebeian elements on whose backs fascism rode to power hated the bourgeoisie- -often as much as they hated the workers. Fascism had dealt with the workers, The nazis then dealt with their own plebeian supporters. And it was to the millionaire industrialist Krupp that Hitler went to receive his orders before liquidating his faithful followers.
Guerin's book is the best thing on fascism which is available, If it is read widely in the labour movement, the modern day fascists will have fewer surprises in store for the working class than did their predecessors busily strengthening the fascist elements on the National Directorate, which is the real ruling body of the NF.
Tyndall and Webster have just secured the appointment to the Directorate of Peter Brons, an ex-Mosleyite, and the wealthy extreme right-wing fanatic Andrew Fountaine. Another new appointee is Peter Holland, an ex-member of the BNSM. Gordon Marshall, sometimes known as Gordon Brown and also an ex-mem= ber of the BNSM, is the NF's new Vice-chairman.
As Webster said, they intend to build a "well-oiled Nazi machine". TOM CAMERON m of Nazi concentration camp being buried after the collapse of the Third Reic How would you like it if the cost of living went up £30 per month overnight? Well, this is just what's happened to the average Italian family! The price rises have been caused by recent tax increases which ansongst other things will put up the price of meat by no less than 15 per cent.
new tax laws ure necessary because of the chronic state of the Italian economy. Inflation soars at a rate of about 20 per cent, whilst it's estimated that this year's balance of payments deficit will be 24,000 million. With figures like these the Italian ruling class is finding it increasingly difficult to get loans from the International Monetary Fund, and there's a great deal of pressure from outside Italy for them to stabilise the situation.
forward with an economic brainwave. They can't increase exports hecause most other capitalist countries are in a similar mesa-for instance, in Britain the deficit on halance of payments will probably be 55,000 million. So they've decided to cut imports by cutting down the amount of goods demanded at home.
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of course, and also by morally arming the Italian people with such choice official Government statements as, for instance, that Italian workers are eating too much meatespecially veal, which is a meat that workers shouldn't eat anyway! Even the United Nations have been somewhat embarrassed by this statement: in a recent report, the UN's agricultuItaly cats less meat than any other advanced capitalist country.
The meat capitalists in Italy are playing their part too. Even before the tax increases, they had been jacking up the price of meat due to what they called the meat shortage.' This myth was expioded when a workers investigation recently exposed ware houses full of meat just waiting to be unloaded on to the market when prices had risen.
these measures by the Government are not expected to have a decisive effect. Luigi Spaventa, a well respecled economist, recently wrote in one newspapers that prices will undergo a new impulse to increase certainly superior to any hypothetical positive effect that might be derived from a reduction in demand.
But not only will the measures affect prices. According to official sources, recent government measures will force unemployment in Italy above the 1½ million mark by the end of the year. Even the employers' federation, headed by Fiat boss Agnelli, can't disguise this, Io a recent article, they said that unem ployment will rise by 'only' balf a milion!
Every trick
king class. Withour resorting to the costly enterprise of a return to fascism, the Halian ruling class is trying to make workers pay for the economic crisis which capitalism has sunk into througbout the world. And they're using every trick in the book. Recently Agnolli stated that if inflawhere betore?
The Government claims that the And so the Government has come This is done by increasing prices, tal section stated that, proportionally, Buteven by their own standards, of the most important capitalist daily All this involves a political attack credit. by the Italian ruling class on the wortion exceeds 20 per cent 'no advanced capitalist country can maintain a democratie form of government.?
The watchword of the Haban ruling class is lighten your belts for democracy' haven't we beard that some Just as the coonomic crisis is international, so are the tactics employed by the ruling classes and their governments. So too is the treacherous policy of the official trade union movement in face of these attacks. Whilst the trade union bureaucrats RESISTERE for rotating 4-bour regional stoppages to demonstrate the workers support for the new model.' These stoppages, they claim, will force the Government to nothink its policy in favour of the new model, notwithstanding the fact that the new model is even more inflationary than the Government's own policy. As one worker at the Fiat factory in I Milan put it to me: Have you beard about the new model of exploitation?
It appears from recent events that many share his artitude. At the demonstration in Milan which accom the CP buresucrets were prevented from delivering all of their speeches by cries of "General Strike! from the tens of thousands of workers present.
It is left up to the small forces of the Gruppi Comunisti Rivoluzionari,
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