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LAWRENCE D. LONGO...
After 20 years of true red love, Italy's Numero Una Communist, Luigi Longo, 71, boss of the largest (1,500,000 members) Communist Party in the West, took advantage of Italy's new divorce law to make an honest comrade of his longtime mistress Bruna Conti, 58. Their 17-year-old son Egidio was present at the ceremony, performed by the Communist mayor of Genzano. So were two other sons by his previous wife Teresa Noce, who fought beside him in the Spanish Civil War and served the party in Italy, Spain and France. Though Longo...
...could argue with Longo's boast, as far as it goes. Italy's robust Communist Party has not just survived, it has thrived. But it has fallen far short of another forecast. At the time of the 1921 Leghorn meeting, it was the view of Lenin and the Comintern that Italy had all the "required conditions to guarantee the victory of the great proletarian revolution." Lenin, in fact, saw not only Italy but much of Western Europe as ripe ground for Communism, thanks to its broad base of industrial workers. Today there are Communist or Marxist regimes...
ITALY. The only Western European Communists given any chance of achieving a significant share of national power in the foreseeable future are Longo & Co. With 1,507,000 members, their party is the largest outside the East bloc and China, and it drew 27% of the nationwide vote in the last election...
...Communists claim they do not want that to happen. They have abandoned their old slogan, "Tanto peggio, tanto meglio" (The worse it is, the better it is for us), and often cooperate to help pass important bills (or at least refrain from sabotaging them). Deputy-Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, 48, Longo's designated successor, hopes to make the Communist Party the nucleus of a "new majority" of the left that would include left-wing Christian Democrats and Socialists...