ALGERIA DISCUSSED IN MILAN
A forum on "Algeria and Socialism" was held in Milan December 5 under the auspices of the Anticolonial Committee, The discussion took place at the House of Culture, a well-known institution fostered by parties of the left, particularly the Communist party, and centered around the book containing the main documents of the Algerian Revolution compiled by Livio Maitan and published by Samon&a and Savelli, According to the Milan edi- _ tion of l'Unita, the Communist party paper, the meeting was well attended.
“The discussion was opened by Saverio Tutino, editor of 1'Unita.- He underlined tne importance of the documents, declaring them essential toa correct understanding of the course of the Algerian Revolution. He said that he was in essential agreement with the preface to.the book written by Livio Maitan,
Maitan was then given the floor. He underlined the importance of the crisis in Algeria in the summer of 1962, emphasized the historic significance of the March 1963 decrees nationalizing the land and approving selfmanagement, analyzed the subsequent experience with self-management, and stressed the anticapitalist as well as anti-imperialist nature of the Algerian Révolution, He discussed recent events, referring particularly to the Peasant Congress which marked another success in the course of self management .
OA number of. people took the floor, Tutino then replied, underlining the profound significance of the Algerian Revolution which brought. forward — a whole series of fundamental problems for the workers movement at the present time. He especially criticized the bankruptcy of the labor move= ment in face of the problem of the colonial revolution and the attitude of the. French Communist party toward the Algerian Revolution,
Maitan spoke again, outlining the verspectives of Algerian economic development and underlining the importance of an over-all concept of the development of the world revolution in its different sectors.
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The book Algeria and Socialism, compiled by Livio Maitan, nas received favorable reviews in the press, ‘The left-centrist weekly 1'Espresso offered its readers an analysis of the contents. Paese-Sera, the big daily controlled by the Communist party, spoke extremely well of it. The -official Communist party weekly Rinascita, which is edited by Togliatti, said among other things that “the ample preface by Livio Maitan represents, despite a certain polemical tone, a serious attempt to analyze the politiaal struggles and the differences among the Algerian leading group in the light of a complex internal social situation and international factors that. weigh on the life of the young state."
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