The Berlusconi Government is bankrupt.
Let us continue united the fight against the
capitalist offensive, to defend our economic and political interests!
The failure of
the Berlusconi Government took place in the midst of the turmoil of Italian finance.
His majority collapsed under the weight of two main factors.
a) The maneuvers of
the international financial oligarchy and the ruling group in Italy, which needed
to avoid infection from the debt crisis by adopting anti-popular measures
faster and deeper; therefore they had to dump Berlusconi, who was now
considered unreliable and too weak.
(b)) The capacity
of resistance of the working class and popular masses who, in the struggles developed
over the last two years, have prevented the consolidation of a reactionary
regime, split the social bloc around Berlusconi, and made the consensus of the
majority of the government fall to the minimum.
The workers
movement and its struggles have made an important contribution to the fall of
Berlusconi, but they were not decisive, confirming Marx’s famous slogan: “Either
the proletariat is revolutionary or it is not."
This is because
of its weaknesses and political, ideological and organizational limitations, as
well as the grave responsibility of the reformists who, worried about the
consequences, used all means to head off the decisive push of the working class,.
The last gift to Berlusconi was to clear the road for the packet of urgent
economic measures, another chapter of social plunder.
The end of the
Berlusconi government is an important political step, which we welcome with
satisfaction, but it is not the end of Berlusconism, that is, the predominance
of neoliberal politics.
We must not have
any illusions, much less stop mobilizing ourselves, because the picture that is
before our eyes is worrisome.
First, we must
observe that, while the country is under the commissariat of the EU-ECB-IMF,
the government and parliament are under commissariats of "King
George" Napolitano who, making himself interpreter of the diktat of the financial
oligarchy, imposed the times and means for the solution of the governmental crisis
and of the parliamentary discussion to approve the economic measures.
Although in an
emergency situation, it foreshadows the passage to a presidential republic, a
symptom of a further authoritarian involution of the bourgeois system.
With the expected
appointment of Monti, Italy is moving closer to the formation of a government of
almost all the bourgeois parties of the right and "left", which will form
a single party of capital when it comes to saving the ruling class from mortal danger
or defending its fundamental interests.
The
"emergency" government that is being formed under the pressure of the
"financial markets" will be as anti-popular, if not more so, than that
of Berlusconi. It is born under the sign of the clear hegemony of the
imperialist bourgeoisie.
The pedigree of
the neoliberal Monti is clear: for years, he was EU Commissioner (appointed by
Berlusconi and D'Alema), European President of the Trilateral Commission, member
of the Bilderberg Group, consultant to the investment bank Goldman Sachs, centers
of imperialist power.
The new Senator
for Life is a representative of the financial oligarchy, responsible for and
beneficiary of the crisis. Unlike Berlusconi, he supports the overall strategic,
comprehensive and long-term interests of financial capitalism.
His program is
the letter of Trichet and Draghi, the increase in competitiveness at all costs (that
is, the increased exploitation of the workers), the attack on the rights and
interests of the working masses, the increase in the working age, cuts to
pensions, privatization and easier layoffs.
The gradual
liquidation of democratic freedoms, as well as the reduction of national
sovereignty and the economic colonization, will continue. All this in the name
of "government of globalization and the crisis" and behind the screen
of the "social market economy".
Internationally,
the executive in preparation will continue to accept the leadership of
US imperialism, to manage its relationship with the other European powers, thus
perpetuating the role of Italy as a geo-strategic springboard and vassal country
for aggression along the crisis zone from North Africa to the Persian Gulf and
Afghanistan.
The government that
the imperialist bourgeoisie wants to impose will have the support of the
reformists, of the centrist parties linked to the Vatican and of most of the
reactionaries of the PdL (the fall of their "knight" accelerates their
internal discords). But it will not have support among the working masses, and
this will be its weak point.
In this situation,
the reformist and social-democratic leaders are confirmed in their role of
props of capitalism, which in the course of the crisis are moving increasingly
to the right. They conceal from the masses the class character of the government
by calling it a "technical" one. The role of regulation and control
of the struggles that the PD and the top levels of the CGIL will play (they
spoke in favor of emergency government of Monti) will be crucial. However, this
will open up the deepest contradictions in the rank and file and in the union.
The change of horses
will not resolve the crisis, which is one of world capitalism and the entire
ruling class. None of the economic, political, social, environmental or
cultural problems that affect the working masses and the youth will be resolved.
On the contrary, the working and living conditions of the majority of society
will be worsened.
Behind the
decline of Italian capitalism, behind the structural problems, which come from
far away and affect the working masses, there is the whole bourgeois drive to
defend its privileges and its ineptitude towards its own ruin.
In this situation
we reaffirm the necessity of the policy of the proletarian united front. We
need unity, but not unity with collaborators and opportunists. The only valid
policy to put in order and prepare the counter-offensive is to promote the welding
together and reorganization of the forces of the class into a single anti-capitalist
front, which expresses a program of uncompromising defense of the interests of
the exploited and supports their organizations such as the workers and peoples
Committees.
On this basis there
will be built a broad popular front, to unite around the proletariat the social
classes and strata oppressed by the financial oligarchy.
We must push
forward a policy of united front against neoliberalism and social-liberalism, to
not pay for the debt and the crisis, against military expenditures and the politics
of war, for the withdrawal from the EU and NATO.
The building of
the front is primarily a process of political unity of the working class and the
popular masses, forged in the struggle against the reactionary policy of the
bourgeoisie, to place the crisis back on the heads of the capitalists, of the
rich, of the parasites.
This fight for
political unity must be conducted in meetings, in discussions with the
different forces of the left and class unionism, but especially in joint struggles
against any bourgeois government, on the basis of the political needs that we
share.
This confirms the
vital need to work for an alternative policy of revolutionary rupture with this
policy and the system that produces it.
The government that
we need to fight for is a government of the workers and all other exploited working
masses. A government that expropriates the capitalist monopolies, seizes the wealth
of the parasites, socializes the main means of production and exchange, supports
the control and oversight by the working class, demolishes the oppressive
bourgeois machine and gives the workers the rights and freedoms that they are
entitled to. A government that serves the struggle of the proletariat to strike
the bourgeoisie, to hasten its final defeat.
The interests of the
working class are for a revolutionary way out of the crisis. Italy will be reborn,
it will be a free and prosperous country, respected and admired; it will make
its contribution to the economic and social reconstruction of the world, only with
socialism.
But without the
Communist Party, one cannot achieve the transition of workers and all the exploited
to revolutionary positions; one cannot lead the struggle towards a new society.
To look to the
future means therefore to focus attention on the function of the Communist
Party, indispensable tool for leading the process of emancipation and liberation
of the exploited and oppressed masses.
The reconstruction of a vanguard political organization of the
working class requires the active and direct commitment today of the sincere communists
and the best elements of the proletariat.
Let us work
together to push forward this process, breaking once and for all with
opportunism and unifying ourselves on the basis of Marxist-Leninist principles
and proletarian internationalism!
November 11,
2011
Communist
Platform