The fall of the Moro Government in Italy is a direct result of the Communist Party's huge gains in the regional elections in June. The CP increased its vote by nearly 6 per cent to well over 33 per cent and the Socialist Party also increased its vote to 12 per cent.
The two major parties of the Italian working class thus took a massive 46 per cent of the vote, while the main party of the Italian capitalists, the Christian Democrats, saw their poll fall to 35½ per cent. ne attempt or tne staman ruing class to intimidate the workers through the 1972 "Centre-Right government, increased support for the fascists, and the reactionary divorce referendum in 1974 has :
Faced with the prospect of the CP coming to office. the canitalists. the CP Icadership, the Social Democrats and international imperialism are making eir preparatons. ror me nanan capaalists it is a question of social democrausine ne cr to me ma mum possib e extent - seeking to complete definitively the transformation of the CP from a party whose primary allegiance is to the Soviet bureaucracy. to one whose first loyalty is directly to the Italian capitalist state and its ruling class. Italian ruling class its good behaviour: by wreatening is membership that a "Chile style massacre' will occur if this alliance is broken, the CP hopes to keep its own base under control.
Outside this framework there are two other actors. Just is the United States. Despite what the Italian ruling class probably now believes, the Ameri cans do not agree that Italian Comm unists have changed their spots.
idea that the CP will seize power, but in cy do beneve it will act as an arm of the Soviet bureaucracy the CIA sent 6 million dollars last month to anti-communist forces following the 12 million dollars it allocated to 'anticommunist umons in estern nurope in the late 1940s, and the 19 million dollars given over a period of years by the Standard Oil company to anti-communist parties. Socialist Party Second is the Italian Socialist Party. Since 1946 this party, crushed between stalinism and une anti-communist policie. of the ruling class, has seen itself decisively replaced as the main party of the Italian working class - even in 1946 the SP gained 21 per cent of the vote compared to 19 per cent of the CP, and gained 400,000 more votes than the CP in the union ciectons Now this party, having lost even further support through 12 years of participation in "Centre-Left coalitions with the Christian Democrats, is seeking to revive its base in the working class through attempting to combine support c of the 'historic compromise with a "leftist' policy - nOnCC IEs move to DrinE down the latest Government, its support or aborton and so on Tasks clear But one thing all the contestants in Italv are agreed on. When the Communist do so in a government only of parties of the working class, but only with the cover of an alliance with the Christian Democrats The task of the working class is equally clear - to break up the bourg cois coalitionist manoeuvres and force the parties of the working class to take government into uner own nands ei the workers see whether the Communist and socialist Icaders will act in tne int erests of the workers! For a CP-SP Workers gather ir