Word: eurocommunist
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Flushed with that success, and the Italian party's surge in the 1976 national election, Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, France's Georges Marchais and Spain's Santiago Carrillo celebrated their own heyday at a confident "Eurocommunist summit" in Madrid in March...
...Spain, the party led by Carrillo, the boldest of the Eurocommunist bosses, raised its share of the popular vote from 9% to 10% in this year's national election. Since then, Carrillo has become involved in a tenuous opposition alliance with the far more popular Socialist Party. It is generally thought that the Communists, with 100,000 or so members, are blocked from sharing in national power by popular fears of a dangerous right-wing reaction...
...France, Italy and Spain, the major Eurocommunist parties all lined up against China, with one quirky difference: as a reminder of his vaunted autonomy from Moscow, Spanish Communist Party Boss Santiago Carrillo compared China's aggression against Viet Nam to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Throughout Latin America, leftist groups raised an anti-Chinese chorus. Thousands of students marched down Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma with banners that said VIVA VIET NAM?VANGUARD OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION...
...debate touches on internal tensions that could prove more vexing to the party in the long run. Fernando Claudin, a former executive committee member who was expelled in 1964 for espousing what would now be considered Eurocommunist tenets, talks about "bureaucratic authoritarianism" in the P.C.E. "Democracy yes," he argues, "but without reducing the supreme authority and infallibility of the party chief...
...this particular view, the confrontation is less ideological than generational, since many of the dissidents have no quarrel with the Eurocommunist policies of the leadership. But there is a difference in viewpoint between the old guard, like Carrillo, aging Party President Dolores ("La Pasionaria") Ibarruri and other seasoned apparatchiks, many of whom spent the Franco years in exile, and a younger group that remained at home. But how far can internal democracy go, particularly in a Communist party? As one Western analyst puts it, "Carrillo clearly wants it-up to a point. But can he then keep...