Christian Democrat leader most cynical and intelligent capitalist politician has become the Mr Nice of Italian politica convincing if it had applied to all those killed in Haly TOLENTY for example. of the Italian etate bring made tried to tind 'sociological poverty, the legacy of fascism, and so on in a street between headquarters. The symbolism OBVIOUS The government agroement signed y left. most courageous dare to march on the streets.
strategy on the part of the Red Brigades.
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ADDRESS SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 18 May 1977 page 2 kidnapped by the Brigades, has been predictably hysterical, in death the would be more student demonstrators murdered by police Nevertheless, If the kidnapping of Moro and the sight monkeys of for twa months was a show of strength by the Red Brigades, the final killing was a sign of their weakness and lack of Recovering from Their hysteria the bourgeois mecia explanations for the fed came up with the standard cliche: children of bourgeois homes revolting against their They then give this a Mediterranean flavour with a few remarks about political instability, rural But the Moro kidnapping has far more specific roote In Italian politics. If took place on the very day when the new government, backed by the Communist Party (PCI), was to have been inaugurated. Moro himself was the architect of centre-left coalitions, and his corpse was TA C party was deliberate and the PCI includes an austerity programme that makes the Social Contract look mild and gives the police sweeping new powers of search and arrest and almost unlimited use of The Red Brigades grew up in a decade closer class collaboration by the traditional party of the Hallan working class, as well as utter chaos on the far The Red Brigades were disgusted by what they saw. The irony ls that their solution only makes things worse. if the PCI was worried that It would have problems selling the new governmental package to its supporters it can now rest assured. The Moro affair has cemented an unholy and sickening national unity, strengthened the government, and legitimised a quasi-military police presence on the streets. The growing opposition to the PC within the unions has been Isolated and only the The whole affair has been a massive defeat for the Italian working class. What's more, this is a conscious Instead of projecting a political alternative to the reformist leaders.
towards provoking But we still refuse to join the PCI and the Italian state However disastrous the Brigades' policies, we utterly condemn the barbarous spectacle of their leaders caged and chained together by leaders chose this course rather than They deliberately and Moro himself made this point in his letters — which have not, for the most part, been published in Britain. They are the ones who commemoration of May-June 1968 with articles by Taric All, Alain Krivine, Eric Hobsbawn and fight is not taken up against the National Froet. The key