The Congress of the Federation Left
The conclusions of the Congress of the Federation of the Left are unequivocal: yes a political and electoral alliance with the PD and the UDC, proposed by Bersani, and a commitment to "a term pact" with the new government. It is a replica of an abnormal contradiction: on one hand you claim the reasons for the job, announcing the alliance with other parties supporters Marchionne, on the one hand it claims the workers' demonstrations of October 16, the other announcing the alliance with foreign parties and opponents of the event, placed it on the other side of the fence. The same elites of the Left, already joined in the vote for the war and the sacrifices launched by Prodi, boosting its support for the nth unit around the center and its possible government. And 'the proof of a genetic code governed, insensible to every lesson of experience and class to every criterion. We ask all friends and honest critics of the PRC and the PDCI to break definitively with their leaders and groups to gather around the Communist Workers' Party, for the purposes of the struggle for an autonomous anti-capitalist alternative pole in the center right and center.
The conclusions of the Congress of the Federation sweep away any ambiguity about the nature of the alliance with PD. Paolo Ferrero formal reassurance that the Fed will not enter the government has a meaning exactly opposite to that which pretends to give it. The non-entry into the government is in fact the precise condition that the Democratic Party has put the Fed in order to achieve the alliance. Although to make the ruling alliance with a party confederation, federation leaders assured him that no claim to enter the government: be satisfied with support from outside his policies and his program. Like the PRC did in 96-98, when, without entering the first Prodi government, which sustained for two years, the worst anti-worker measures (from the introduction of temporary work camps to against migrants). That's what it is is derived from so-called unequivocally Diliberto has indicated that programmatic points as possible to cement the alliance term "less precarious, more public school." First-to-be on the safe show you exactly where that content on behind the scenes already assume some minimal literary convergences. But above all it gives carte blanche in advance on all the rest, namely the lintel of the political class and PD UDC: continuation of the war, support for the anti-worker consultation between Confindustria and the trade union bureaucracies program Marchionne, revitalization of the privatization, new cuts announced social spending under the pressure of "compatibility budget, continuity antimigranti policies, continued support to the Vatican .... On all this, as in the Prodi government, Ferrero and Diliberto will save the soul with the Platonic distinction formal, while materially vote choices Bersani (and casino).
There is no question of an electoral agreement to defeat Berlusconi (with possible technical solutions such withdrawal or the like). This is a political agreement with the government parties intertwined Confindustria and banking interests. And at the same time as these parties are trying to replace Berlusconi with a political solution to guarantee the continuity of dominant interests: the more the crisis of debt and new heavy sacrifices Social ask that the bourgeoisie to the masses. Instead of entering the crisis of Berlusconi to pave the way for an alternative class of independent groups of executives left the Italian bourgeoisie to help her find a replacement card. And all for what? Because the alliance with PD, under the current electoral law, would lower the 2% threshold needed for parliamentary representation. The fact that its deputies and senators would be bound to support a government anti-working class is clearly a minor detail: the essential is to return at all costs in the institutional political game.
Once again confirms the need for all Communists honest to take stock of truth. The Fed and the parties that compose it have nothing to do with an anti-capitalist project, nor with the logic of class politics. The testimony is critical to them without hope and perspective. Only the open break with those parties and joins the Communist Workers Party can replace around a coherent communist project the best energies of many comrades.
Communist Workers 'Party