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Red Weekly No. 72, 17 October 1974 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 453 words

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On TROOPS OUT MOVEMENT: Troops Dul oT Northern Ireland -Brighton pubIC MECER, SOnEAAY ZS UCOHEE RT bora in tre bagaren Laoout GluD, Lewe. Rosd. National speakers-ail weicome. LONDON RCG: Public meeting on SrO aCO CAH SKK I CETEB NT SmeoUr meHODEn tUNd ot 8pm. Sunday 27 October SOUTH LONDON Chile Solidarity Campeign! frim "Chile-Septernber, Tuesday 22 October, 7pm, at Clapham Baths, 10 Menor Roed Caolen Norh tube. DIsuSIbn Ol wuCOME LATIN AMERICAN FRONT presents PuT ACa OnS Or tR DRIEE Sitar —iMSSI DICUSOn. TUuOSU?? Octobor /pm, ar the Architectura: Associaton:31 Bedford Sa. London WC1 Srop fioor!

S.E. ESSEX RED CIRCLE: Weds 23 October at 8pm-'Atter the Elections, Which Waw Forwurd? Ai 38 Kennel Lane. Billericay, Essex.

WORKING WOMEN'S CHARTER: Pubtic meetig in Nota to wonch the Cherllr Campeign, Saturday 19 Oct, ipm at the Aibert Hail Institute, NotrAgnelli-says 'only" % milfion mare on dole Outside Fiat, too, things are hotling up. In several towns, workers are reflising to pay the 30 to 40 per cent rise in gas and electricity bills, And faced with increased bus fares, workers have devised a very effective scheme. Travellers elect a "bus delegate" who collects fares at the old rate. The accumulated money is sent weekly by postat order to the hus companies.

In some areas the bris corponics retaliated by refusiug to carry the "fure-strikers' But then nobody turned up to work and the factories were paralysed. So the factury hos ses soon miade sure that the fares WETE PRUUEEH COWD In face of such increasing militancy, the ruling class has major proNot only is the economic sruation getting worse-the italian to plan a workers' sulution to the crisis, and one which is based on workers" action to impose it — a general strike. But the icadership of the workers' movement is playing a despicable Tole.

The Ilahan Communist Party is the largest CP in Western Europe. At elections, the CP gets in the region of six million votes, and it controls the CGIL, the largest and most important trade union federation.

notion that workers can defend themselves through their own independent action. They have even rejected the idea of their British counterparts a joint Communist Party and Socialist Party Governmont which would legisJate socialisı on behalf of the working ciass.

"HISTORIC COMPROMISE"

Instead, the CP prefer what they call the "historic compromise' -an alhance of Communists, Socialists, and Christian Democrats with the aimn of establishing an 'advanced' democracy!

And the perspective of the historie compromise" has led the CP to the greatest treachery The Government's summer laws incecased the cost of living of the average Itallan family by E30 a month. All the CP said was that the

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