Icaders of the social-democratic and parties.
proposals for capitalist million unemployed).
a different solution.
interests of the working class.
For all their supposed Eurocommunism', the tudes taken toward by the VENUES Communist parties show the full extent of their adaptation to the interests of their own national bourgeoisies, The argument that broke out August between Spanish and French regarding Spain's entry into the Common Market was only the tip of the iccherg of differences between these two parties.
Faced with the French CP*s chauvinist campaign in Southwestern France against Spain's entry into the BEC, the leaders of the Spanish CP — who view this entry as the cornerstone of Spain's development nounced French CP. leader Marchais's parochial patriot.
and accused him of 'stirring up reactionary demons among the backward farmers'.
The French CP righteously responded with a paragraph l'Humanite explaining that 'each party had the right to freely determine its own positions?.
In fact, the positions of the various Communist parties go beyond merely being In July 1978, Marchais wrote in the Caullist magazine Appel:
It is clear that for our part we categorically refuse to tied to any sort of miniinternational or to subordinate our national demands to some Europe-wide party.
strugeles clections about a 'Europe of the workers' from the But it was the leading light of the social-democrats, who cooked up the strengthening the institutions Europe (most notable hallmark:
As for the Communist parties, almost every one has The only thing they common is a refusal to fight for the international aspirations of the workers, and with the struggle of the Communists of the Nine, atti- we are too conscious of the the national interest to act in this manner. *I should point out that this is something attitude. The munist deputies who have been members of the the Parliament since 1973, and who Tor organisational belong Communist group, have always stated that their sole function in the ussembly itself was defence of the French national interest.' Pajella, Icalian de- shadow minister of foreign alfairs, states: needed is an organisation that can really act - one that would be based on a transfer of power agreed to by tie governments and parlia ments of the member states and could therefore take up the self- crucial problems that merber states cannot deal with on their own. "The people of the member states will be reassured about this multinational power if it is based firm control directly exercised by the dis- European much wider powers than it has al present.?
be These differing reflect the national conditions THIRTE are specific country, to which the CPs class-collaborationist This means that the Spanish Communist present seVen have in European WOUL French ComEuropean European Giancarlo CP'S the and Italian CPs, which espouse interests monopolies of their countries and are lying to establish a policy of national union with democratic the representatives of those monopolies, are dyed-in-thewool Europeans"
1960s the Italian followed policy as the framework for the positions "Iralian road to socialism', This road' requires maincaincach ing the que, and one of the existing policies realitie: that must be taken into account is Europcan consoli-
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billist Challenge: 17 May 1979 page 12 THERE WILL be much talk in the Common Market