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Amendment on the assessment of the results of the Italian elections, proposed by the Italian delegates

16-25 August 1951 · The Third World Congress (16–25 August 1951) · 71 words

Machine-assisted translation. No English translation of this document is known to have been published. This one was made from the French text in Prager’s collection with machine assistance and spot-checked, but it has not been edited. The French is the authoritative text: Amendement relatif à l'appréciation des résultats des élections italiennes proposé par les délégués italiens.

16–25 August 1951, Third World Congress of the Fourth International

"In Italy, the elections of spring 1951 demonstrated the general maintenance of the positions of the workers' parties (with some local reinforcements) and a shift of bourgeois votes from the dominant Catholic party towards the parties of the right (neo-fascist, liberal, etc.). This indicates the persistence of powerful working-class positions and the beginning of a crisis of leadership within the bourgeoisie."

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