which was supposed to accomnot been forthcoming.
The CDU's Liberal coalition laken place or are being prothereby exacerbating the once and for all that German Instead of the politically docthey have ended up with a nuclass which is doeply dissatisnomic miracle on the borizon functions as a means of discithe end of this see is alo ane cho or us strac is ausc German dominated collabora• peace and the "national interest' the revelation that the Icader of stock market while they have representative on the supervisory board of Mercedes-Benz. recently made a personal profit of at least 64,000 marks which was later acquired by merger and that his profit was tion to his members in cast Germany. This scandal could well against foreigners much of the bourgeois media is full of stolyptic comparisons with left can capitalise on the new mood of both militancy and disthat in has a lot so do to make man unification. PDS (the ex-GDR Communist their lost strength and are reapthe apparent corruption of the migner acaree or cooperaton, Now diroction so white alave don the Left cockt uke Ge many in a new and more posiwest Germany was wrong at the swallow East Germany in 1990 many is not simply a bigger internal relationship of class If the left is to develop a will be at the centre of that prosocianst swies of curope tay the far right Northern League, party had discovered the At the end of the meeting the tan Democrat Party. The laughter was perfunctory; far from The corruption scandal has Party prime minister Bettino Now the scandal has dragged minister and one of the major figures of post-war Italian polltacular trial of Andreotti. in which the Mafia has played a been impossible not because of the lack of conscientious police Mafia is part of the system and protected at the highest levels. made a deal with the Mafia. fia stooges in local government throughout the peninsula. clientalism. The Mafia state was a cold war state, constructed to powerful Communist Party (PCI) go on in the old way. That is why the system of proportional repil manifesto Mafla state is being abolished. super-bloated state apparatus. to local businesses. authorities and underpinning not only health and welfare provision, but also bile, the sliding scale of wages for industrial workers. controlled by IMRO, the state tronage and corruption, under of the Christian bribes for state contracts is just tion involved Masonic lodges. the Mafia, the Catholic hierarchy, It is now thought that the 1978 assassination of Christen Moro, apparently by the Red Brifar-right forces, possibly in ail teria - when the PCI seemed The old system of rule has been rendered redundant by the targets of the Maastricht treaty. also the welfare state. rise of the Northern League, a on the corruption of the political has also been spurred by the PDS (Democratic Left Party). which is now an openly reforand a large minority forming the 150,00-strong Party of CommuWORLD NEWS sis, with split after split going to long-time leader of the PCI left. Northern League, threatens the system is capable of changing, way, Italy is now set for a prolonged political crisis. the far right or the militant left. The challenge for the PRC is to ng with the reformist heritage of mainstream Italian communism.
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