rent phase of globalisation. eties. their own destiny in this way.
at the European the future. exploitation, alienation and wars. and the struggle against the neo-liberal agenda of global capitalism bution in this direction. are the themes we can join the PRC in promoting. The conference was fascinating both because of the war. obviously helped class movement itself. With this conference our party completes a determined and innovative step forward in the process of refounding modern thought and communist action to meet the great challenge that faces us, with the deep transformations taking place in the capitalist system world-wide in the curThe whole of humanity finds itself at a crossroads between the return to barbarism and the construction of an alternative society, that we continue to call Socialist. This development and innovation in analysis and political theory are only possible if at the same time we put into effect a serious, brave and also a harsh balance sheet of the history of the communist movement of the last century and the experiences of constructing socialist sociThose ideas, those conflicts, those struggles, those revolutions have indelibly marked the history of humanity, as for the first time the masses have been protagonists of But in this history, which we do not set aside or to fossilize, mistakes were made, and also horrors - those of the Stalinist age - were committed that we must look at in order to avoid them happening again, in the present or This is an indispensable and also a possible task today, because we are facing a world-wide movement against globalisation that is fighting for "Another world is possible", and that therefore raises questions about the nature and the characteristics of a new society - one without This search, on the basis of a return to the basic ele ments and foundation of Marxist thought, must continue and be expanded and our conference is a definite contriWith this conference our party proposes and effects a turn to the left. This has been made necessary by the pre sent crisis in the process of globalisation, that it is an economic, cultural and unresolved political crisis, to which the capitalist system answers with a permanent state of It is necessary in order to be in tune with the growth of the movements, that in our country in particular, we see more and more a meshing together of the movement against globalisation, war and neo-liberalism and the extraordinary upturn in the combativity of the working It is necessary because of the defeat of the political project of the Centre left and the so-called 'third way' put forward by the moderate left, which not just in Italy but on a European level, demonstrates its total inability to face and defeat the right wing, neo-liberalist policies and wars. We commit ourselves to these fundamental aims on all fronts, be it social, political, cultural or institutional, working inside the movements for their growth and participating politically at an international level.