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...Italy is in the grip of a serious crisis, and the labor movement must do everything in its power to solve it," Georgio Napolitano, member of the secretariat of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), told an audience of 250 listeners last night...
...PCI supports policies of economic austerity and industrial reorganization in order to stem inflation and unemployment, increase productive investment and reform inefficient public-owned industry. Napolitano said...
However, this does not mean the party seeks total state ownership of the means of production, he added. Instead, the PCI feels that a mixed economy--with coexisting elements of private-owned and state-owned industry--is compatible with democratic socialism. Napolitano said...
...PCI is dedicated to the task of resolving the contradictions of capitalist industrial society," Napolitano said. The workers movement does not have to wait for the "collapse of capitalism" to realize its goals, he said...
...visible result has been not only more collaboration between the PCI and other parties, but also less rhetoric and more realistic proposals from the Communists and a considered and carefully articulated platform. As they acquired respectability in the eyes of the Italian electorate, the PCI seems to have acquired a sense of responsibility. Should they prove unable to fulfill the promises that gained them support, they now have something to lose...