Word: comunista
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists, led by the savvy Carrillo, had a simple aim: to make the party respectable in a country where it had been outlawed for 38 years. With caveats, they accepted the monarchy and its flag?to the point where wags dubbed them el Real Partido Comunista (the Royal Communist Party). The party's freewheeling rallies, including a giant, rain-soaked election-eve bash outside Madrid for more than 200,000 supporters, dazzled much of Spain. By contrast, Fraga's stodgy Alliance held many of its meetings by invitation only...
...legalization was so unexpected that Radio Nacional's announcer actually sputtered the words of the communiqué. Within hours, caravans of honking cars, draped with red flags, snaked through the streets of Madrid. Jubilant leftists sang militant choruses of the long-banned Internationale, and a huge PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE ESPAÑA sign was posted outside party headquarters. Suarez's action was generally applauded by Spain's left and center politicians, who regarded the lifting of the ban as a litmus of the regime's commitment to democracy...
...influence, if not control, economic policymaking in the next government. (The Paris-based newsmagazine L'Express recently caricatured French Communist Leader Georges Marchais eating spaghetti with a hammer and sickle in anticipation of the boost to his own party.) In its public pronouncements, at least, the Partito Comunista Italiano (P.C.I.) has disowned one of the basic tenets of Marxist economic analysis: that capitalism is in the process of being destroyed by its own contradictions. "This [Italy's economic] crisis is not an invention of the capitalist world," says P.C.I. Economist Eugenic Peggio. "It is an objective event...
...recession. Moreover, D.C. governments have lately proved unable to solve a host of economic and social problems: rampant inflation, a sagging lira, mounting national debt, 7% unemployment, inadequate transportation, hospital care and public housing. The party has a tarnished record of providing bad government by aging politicians. The Partito Comunista Italiano has mounted its most serious challenge so far under Berlinguer, the most talked-about politician in Italy at the moment, and perhaps in all of Europe...
Communist leaders are as aware as Zaccagnini of this voter concern, and they appear to be making allowances for it even before the campaign formally opens. The posters for the Partite Comunista Italiano that appeared all over the country last week urged voters to choose the PCI and save Italy. The hammer and sickle symbol, however, was muted, as so far have been the campaign statements of party bosses. In a speech last week, Giorgio Napolitano, a top PCI leader, made a surprising and significant distinction between Communist goals this time round. "We say that Communist participation in national decisions...