•Collina The results of the Italian elections did not correspond either to the expectations of the Italian proletariat or to the fears of national and international reaction. The great new advance of the PCI, ground which the left vote was concentrated even more than last June 15, an advance that led to extraordinary success in some cities, such as Naples, was not sufficient to compensate for the decline of the PSI and the modest results of Democrazia Proletaria and the Radical party, thus leaving the total left vote sensibly below 51 percent. But above all it was not sufficient to counterbalonce the strong staying power of the DC, which capped an electoral campaign conducted in the name of the most overt and miserable antiworker, antipopular and anticommunist crusade. . . . For the moment, the only effect of the new victory of the PCI will be to confirm and accentuate the political orientation that emerged after June 15, namely, the substantial will and the partial capacity to "freeze" the political context, even resorting openly to repression of struggles and bureaucratic control of the unions. The picture of the left would not be complete without taking account of the subsiantial reduction of the political impost of Democrazia Proletaria, for which we feel fully responsible, along with the other components. •.. This political result will not be without consequences on the relationship of forces between the revolutionary class-struggle component and the moderate class collaborationist component of the working class spectrum,, nor will it be without consequences in the realm of repression, which will undoubtedly emerge emboldened from this important Christian Democratic success, nor on the support the proletarian program and the advance toward people's power will be able to obtain in the movement.. In reality, behind the results of these elections a new and substantial step has been taken, certainly not under the most favorable conditions, toward a tougher class confrontation. The government solution that was unable to be created by these elections will certainly not be able to emerge from a second run of elections in the rather short term, as many are already proposing.
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VOTA DEMOCRAZIA PROLETARIA PER IL GOVERNO ALLE SINISTRE PROLETANT The ungovernability of the country — which is the richest and most complex, and thus most ambivalent fruit of the growing class confrontation in Italy during past years - can find its outlet only on the terrain of the relationship of class forces.
It must be the growth of the mass movement, the movement of the organized forces of the workers in the factories, of the unemployed, of the soldiers, of women, youth, students, of the general mobilization against fascism and reaction that we have seen at work so powerfully in this election campaign; it must be this force that imposes its own solutions to the institutional crisis of the country, to prevent the PCI and PSI from continuing to fuel the Christian Democratic desire not to let itself be removed from power.
The crisis of the DC has reached a point of no return that the political events of the past year have highlighted beyond all doubt and which will certainly not be able to be turned around by the electoral success of
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