From: "Luciano Dondero" <dond001-AT-IT.net> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 09:55:14 +0000 Subject: Re: M-I: Dondero's doc-part 3 On Tue, 29 Oct 96 12:17 Adam Rose <adam-AT-pmel.com> wrote: > The gist of what I want to say about this document can probably > be summarised as "Yes, but what about the class struggle ?". > > There seem to me to be 5 central questions : > > 1. What about the National Alliance ? > 2. What about the Northern League ? > 3. What is our attitude to the Olive Tree government ? > 4. What should our attitude be to the trade union leaders > who support the PDS ? > 5. What should our attitude be to the trade union leaders > who support the PRC ? > > Dondero anwered (3), but not the others. First of all, sorry for the delay in replying (we are a bit busy here with the local congresses of the PRC). The reasons the attitude toward the current Olive Tree govt takes so much space in my text has to do with the fact that this is the main issue in dispute within the PRC right now, and also the key problem facing any working-class militant. But you are right that it is also crucial to develop an analysis and to formulate programmatical and practical positions regarding the right-wing(s) and the TU leaders. In my opinion, however, all of these issues have to be tackled within the context of a policy of United front that the PRC should adopt toward the PDS. Insofar as the left-wing of the PRC is unable to pursue this line and argue within the party for this, anything it says and does is ineffective, to say the least. The (former) fascists of AN (National Alliance) and the right-wingers of the Lega (Northern League) can be countered by a massive working-class mobilisation. But one has to be aware of the fact that the Lega has today the largest working-class membership of any party in the industrial North of Italy -- though, less than the PDS and the PRC together. And also that AN is busily growing among the unemplyed in the South of Italy. Which is why two things are needed: the PRC must be able to offer a left-wing opposition to the government, and it must find a road toward the workers that support the PDS (hence, the govt). The only way this can be done is by combining a hard, principled (but very concrete and practical) line of opposing any measure that goes against the interests of the working people -- and conversely, supporting every struggle and demand in their favor -- with an approach that can make inroads among the PDS ranks. Today there are two demonstrations in Italy, one called by the right-wing Polo (AN, Forza Italia and assorted former Christian Democrats) in Roma, and one called by Rifondazione comunista in Napoli. Stay tuned. -- Luciano Dondero -- --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005