TROTSKYISTS CALL FOR RESOLUTE STRUGGLE
ROME -- The National Executive of. the Revolutionary Communist Groups, the Italian Section of the Fourth International, published a resolution April 5 on the political situation in the. country.
The first part of the document deals with the economic situa~ tion and its principal causes. [See.World Outlook April 10 for analysis on this: topic. ] "The conclusion to be drawn,” declares the -_. resolution, “is clear: in reality there are two fundamental lines, two fundamental alternatives, In the one case, the existing system is..accepted as given. It is. then difficult-to object to the logic of certain positions of the foe and certain conjunctural measures and at the most all that.can-be advanced is the perspective of. rat: onalizing reforms which in the present context can by no means .actually eliminate the imbalances and bottlenecks which are. denounced _as abnormal but which are strict consequences of the structuration. acquired by the system, In the other case, the necessity is understood of an attack on the structural centers, the.necessity of beginning reforms of an anticapitalist nature so as to radically alter the logic and funetioning of the economic machine, the necessity of destroying the dominant positions of the big capitalist: groups with the aim of bringing about real programming and balanced development, with priority placed on general collective needs; and then one can only envisage a line of action implying in. reality breaking up the system. . .. The alternative is not_programming controlled by the monopolies or democratic. programming the. s logan of the Communist party]; but capitalist programming, which is necessarily and irres, versibly monopolistic, or collectivist programming,
trig, signifies in. substance that the central question, whether one likes it or not, is the question of power...
The resolution continues: "All this explains why, among other things, the class struggle in Italy -- and countries of analogous structure -- is so difficult and why it is so hard to record successes of general import. The fact is that the foe not only has inexhaustible resources and a security apparatus of long and varied experience, but its resistance is all the more vigilant and resolute in view of the fact that even in considering particular and immediate necessities, inevitably the regime is. brought into question, the question of power is pdesed. That is why the struggle can only be a hard one and it is absolutely illusory and ridiculous to try to by~ pass the obstacle, to evade the fundamental terms, to develop a strategy aimed at avoiding a frontal clash, a revolutionary conflict with the foe no matter what its speoific forms or ultimate date may be,
. The last part of the text indicates the tasks facing the work _ ers movement at this stage, specifying a-whole series of transitional aims. It concludes as follows: "The governmental experience of the SP [Socialist party] has demonstrated once more that in the framework
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of bourgeois society, a workers party participating.in the government can play only a subordinate role, objectively of collusion and connivance, Thus the problem that is posed is not to struggle for more or less weight for one or more workers parties in the govern ment, operating in the framework of the system, but to fight for a government that really aims at breaking this framework in order to carry out organically antiecapitalist structural reforms, Suoh a government can only be the expression of the workers, the peasants, the popular and petty-bourgeois masses, excluding the representatives of capitalist interests, a government formed by the workers parties and possibly by petty-bourgeois formations resolved to break with the wul ing classes and to accept in fact the leadership of the proletariat, a government which will be supported by the unions and. other mass organizations.
"Tt will be said that the relationship of forces needed to impose such a solution does not exist. But, whatever may be the particular analyses of the situation and the appreciations of the possibility of it occurring in the near future, the problem is pre-= cisely to struggle, on the basis of the indicated platform, to make the relationship of ferees change and to bring about shifts in the popular and petty-bourgeois masses who are still under the influ. ence of the political formations of the bourgeoisie,"