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Refoundation in the Senate (7.5 per cent)

Socialist Resistance no35  |  page 18-19

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there was a broad space for a radical critique of the neo-liberal model.

But we did not conceal the tact that our votes were neces. sary for the Prodi government to come into existence, and especially to ensure the departure of Berlusconi trom the Palazzo Chigi (the centre of government), a departure which is demanded by a big majority of the electorate.

This support "from the outside" would set Prodi on the only road that could give him a broad social base of support. une road or a clean bIcak from the neo-liberal and warlike policies of preceding governments.

What would be the signs of such a break? The immediate withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq and Afghanistan; the repeal of Law 30, which retorms working conditions, and also the repeal of the edusimply on the political and institutional levels, lies in the building of a social alternative that goes beyond the schema of governments changing

anything really changing.

Prodi, on the other hand, wants to situate his government in the direct line of the old neo-liberal policies which characterized his presidency of the European Union.

The participation of the PRC in this government will only delay the perspective of a strong anti-capitalist Left in Italy.

Flavia D'Angeli is a leader of the Bandlera Rossa current. which organises comrades identifying with the Fourth International within the Critical Left current of the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC). This article was published in the April 27 issue of Rouge, weekly paper of the LCR (French section of the Fourth

NOTES

[1] The Unione encompasses among other forces the Left Democrats (DS) (exCommunists who have now been converted to social liberalism and are members of the Socialist Margarita (a centrist grouping), and the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC), a party of the anti-liberal Left.

Within the PRC there is the Critical Left current, which the members of the Fourth International participate

[2] The principal forces in the House of Liberties are Berlusconi's party, rorza Italia, the post-fascist National Alliance and the populist Northern League.