Despite the apparent electoral success of Reagan's foreign policy proposals, the American people would not stand by and idly sanction US involveintervention — whether through coun ter-revolutionary forces such as the would meet the bitter resistance of The possible instability of the Yug political regime after the death of the aging President Tito - with the possible emergence of a hard pro-Stalinist faction - has allowed the US to project the possibility of withdrawal of NATO from Italy in front of the Italian electorate. Kissinger's threats of a total cessation of the American military presence in Europe are supposed to play on the fears of Soviet invasion in Germany.
But much of this means very little. Two countries, Portugal and Iceland, have already included Communists in their governments while remaining in NATO. Furthermore, a NATO withdrawal from Italy would lose the US a key strategic base in the MediterNo - the real means of US coercion on Italy lie in the economic The threats on troop commitments in Europe provide the European bourgeoisie with sound electoral reasons why they should 'speak out' against the new 'Eurocommunism'. But the real methods of the imperialists, if they choose to use them, are currency speculation, trade embargoes, the closing down of manufacturing subsidiaries, and the cessation of capital loans.
From such actions only two conclusions are possible. One is the speedy demise in the chaos of a collapsing capitalist economy of any government containing parties which are the target of the imperialists, assisted by the mobilisation of the forces of reaction in that country. This is what happened in Chile.
The other is the break-up of capitalist relations of production, their control by the workers movements. and the seizing of power by the armOnly such a strategy can defend the working class and its allies from domestic reaction. Only if the working class enforces its control over the capitalists can the meas