Word: nenni
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Decisive Break. Responsible for the change was Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni, a longtime fellow traveler who split with the Reds in Parliament after Nikita Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin in 1956. But the split was far from committing his entire party. Last week at a three-day meeting of the Socialist Party's Central Committee Nenni proposed to make the break decisive. He offered to open negotiations with the government for a five-year joint legislative program which, if the Fanfani government buys it, will probably bring the Socialists into the government after next spring...
...Although Nenni carefully avoided spelling out the specifics of his program, it was believed that the Socialists would settle for gradual social and economic reforms that the other parties had already agreed on. More important, the Socialists were ready to call it quits on demands for more nationalization. The whole deal, warned Nenni, depends on a single condition: the breakup of the local political pacts with the Reds in the proposed regional governments. Said Nenni: "A struggle for power in which Socialists associate themselves with Communists is impossible...
Petty Insult. Nenni's plan infuriated the fellow travelers in his party's high command. "A scandal,'' cried one. Shouted another: "For a few corrections in the capitalist system, they are offering the breakup of the workers' movement." But Nenni's proposal carried...
...whole thing is simply a political payoff to the Socialists, who are not in the government but whose 88 votes in Parliament Fanfani needs to keep his coalition in office. The Socialists demanded nationalized power because it is part of their political dogma and because Pietro Nenni wants to prove to his own left wing and to the Communists that he is not being taken into camp by the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile. the things that Italy really needs -schools, roads, tax reform - remain vague promises...
Dreams of Solidarity. The big question about the apertura is whether it will be able to pull the Socialists away from their longstanding alliance with the Communists. Nenni apparently now wants this, but his formidable powers of persuasion are currently handicapped: he is still recuperating from a near fatal fall in a ravine this summer. Many of his party comrades are hypnotized by the idea of "working-class solidarity." Today, Socialists and Communists jointly run numerous local governments and agricultural cooperatives that are difficult to unscramble...