Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong. Most were dressed in faded jeans, and T shirts or windbreakers; some had daubed their faces with paint, imitating American Indians on the warpath. They surged through the graceful colonnaded streets into the vast Piazza Maggiore for a first skirmish with their avowed enemy: the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). As the throngs approached Bologna's huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young demonstrator. "What other policy would you have us follow...
Thus began an improbable three-day conflict between youthful extremists who regard themselves as Marx's true heirs and Europe's largest and most innovative Communist Party. The ultras had come to Bologna from all over Italy for a weekend convention held to protest Communist "repression." They claim that the Communist Party, in its eagerness to share power with the Christian Democrats, has become a pillar of the Establishment and hates them for saying...
...P.C.I. held a mass conclave in Modena on the eve of last week's demonstrations in Bologna. "Let these youths carry their insults against our party," declared Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer. "Bologna will surely not be disrupted by their lies." Berlinguer accused them of regarding "the Communist Party as the enemy to be defeated." In a bitter reference to the French intellectuals' manifesto, he noted that "the right wing often disguises itself as leftist, and cultural idiots at home and abroad fall right into the trap...
...longer make sense of their lives. Godard does a brief series of sequences on women's loneliness, and their victimization by inherently violent male sexuality. He follows with several monologues from an older man, presumably the father of either the husband or the wife. A former Communist Party member who once transported party tracts to distribute in Buenos Aires, he, too, has lost faith in historical inevitabilities. After recounting his tales of party adventures, he shrugs: "it was crazy, but that's history." Later, sitting behind a table with his bathrobe open, he mutters: "There are times when...
...arrested and detained without trial at the whim of the Justice Minister, who does not have to give any reasons. They can be sentenced to life imprisonment or executed under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts, which define any attempt to change the status quo as "communist." Under such laws, the African National Congress of South Africa--the party of national liberation--was outlawed in 1960, and many opposition leaders--among them Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Bram Fischer--sent to jail for life...