From Mary Johnson in Milan MUNICIPAL, regional and provincial elections take place in Italy June. This will be an important test of strength between the political forces in Italian society.
For the first time, the Lega Communista will stand its own slate of candidates. These candidates will provinces of Turin, Brescia, Taranto two or three other towns in the Venetia region.
The standing of candidates is the culmination of a cam-.
Socialist Challenge 22 May 1980 Page 12 paign to get between 400 and 600 signatures, tor didate. But it also reflects the renewed growth and development of the LCR, in tion Fourth The construction LCR has been a difficult task. major Before 1969, the Italian Trotskyists carried out two tactics On hand they constructed a left Revoluzionaria tendency in the Italian Communist Party (PCI), around the Journal La Sinistra; orner tney consuuciea an InMilan, dependent revolutionary youth and organisation (Falce e Martello Hammer and Sickle):
But with the development upsurge of 1969, which included a huge wave of into a massive crisis, unable to give an adequate response to the PCI's They imagined it possible to have a 'government of the left' in which the PCI, the Socialist Party and the far left would participate with the bourgeois radicals through socialism.
The crisis and decline of the centrists given verified by a space for the bulding of the each canItalian Trotskyist organisation.
Throughout
LCR (then GCR) had concenItalian sectrated on implanting interna- the factories.
has paid dividends. played an important role in the struggle around the renewal of WOlK place in 1978 and 1979. They the have been particularly involved in the struggle against the sackings of 61 militants from Fiat on the Turin.
Austerity
Two comrades of the LCR, Angelo Caforio and Pasquale Salerno, sacked,
TWO more women have been jailed for refusing to pay a fine imposed