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real issue is between the C.D.
and the Communist Party.

Broadly speaking, the Republi-
cans and Social Democrats agree
with the.C.D. on major issues.
Social Democratic leader Saragat,
fresh from a visit to the United
States, makes no bones about his
views. _

He competes with the C.D. in
aversion to nationalisation; he is
a full-blown supporter of NATO
and Polaris bases for Italy, and
is as cautious as the Christian
Democrats about giving auton-
omy to the regions, though this
is a basic point of the Italian
Constitution.

The general view is that the
neo-fascists and monarchists, fol-
lowing the July 1960 events, are
in a weak position.

The position of the Liberal ©

Party is different. It may well in-
crease its poll, culling support
from other extreme Right Wing

_ parties and from certain elements —

in the C.D., opposing the Centre-
Left policy.

The Socialists are in an in-
creasingly difficult position, torn
by differences and contradictions.

Adopted by the Right Wing
majority on the executive, the

' programme affirms the Socialists’
readiness to continue with the
Centre-Left experiment. Criticism
is expressed of the Christian
Democrats’ default in the last
legislative period.

The Socialists call for an
economic programme responding
“to the political determination to
change by concrete short - and
long-term measures the structure
of capitalist society ...”’

The demand for natignalisation,
they say, should be subordinate to
_ the results of the programme for
economic development. :

On foreign affairs the Socialists
do not seek Italy’s withdrawal
from NATO, but call for creation
of zones free of atomic weapons,
for reduction of armaments and

banning of nuclear tests.

_ They seek recognition of Ger-
many’s existing frontiers and for
a statute for Berlin guaranteeing
the city’s independence.

The Left-Wing group on the
party executive repeated its oppo-
sition to the general line adopted
in the programme, especially
criticizing the inadequacy of pro-
posals on nationalisation and agri-
culture.

The Communists are calling’
for a real move to _the left in
__ the country. Relations between

citizen and State must be regu-
lated anew on a_ democratic
basis. Political and trade union
liberties must be guaranteed;

_ there must be security of em-
ployment and a comprehensive
agricultural reform so that the
land “‘belongs to those working
SL Fag
ANTI-MONOPOLY

Above all, economic planning
must be in the people’s and not
the monopolies’ interests.

They seek a neutral Italy and
the country’s active participation
in solving burning international
problems. The Communists op-—
pose a Nato multilateral atomic

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big congress in June

A World Congress of Wo-
men will be held in Moscow
from June 24 to 29. Prepara-
tions for it are well under
way.

The congress has been call-
ed by the Women’s Interna-
tional Democratic Federation,
which unites some 200 million
women from more than 80
countries, but will also be at-
tended by women from many
organizations not affiliated to
the federation.

The -congress, expected to
be the largest world gathering
of women ever held, will dis-
cuss the following major
problems:

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foree and nuclear arms for West-

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They demand the dissolution
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@ The struggle for wo-
men’s rights in society and in
the family;

@ Women for peace, dis-
armament and __ friendship
among nations; :

@ Women in the struggle
for the health, upbringing and
education of children and
youth.

Preparations for the con-
gress are in progress in all
countries. Everywhere dele-
gates are being chosen and
money collected to pay for
their travelling expenses.

(In Canada it is reported
several women’s organiza-
tions are planning to send del-
egates and/or observers to
the congress.)

Soviet women are making
ready to welcome the con-
gress delegates and guests. At
factories and offices people
are contributing to the peace
fund which finances the con-
gress.

The Congress is expected
to strengthen the role of wo-
men’s movements in world at-
fairs.

USSR makes big changes
in governing country

‘By JOHN WEIR
MOSCOW — In this second
year of the 20-year plan to
construct a communist society
in the Soviet Union, two great
changes are being made in
the way in which the country
is governed and led. These
will shave a great influence

on future developments.
One, presently in the incu-
bation stage, is the establish-

ment of state-party control.

This involves tens of millions
of people in checking up on
fulfilment of plans, removal!
of roadblocks and bringing to
the fore that self-activity of
the ‘people that will be the
way of life under commun-
ism.

The second is the reorgan-
ization of the Communist
Party, which leads the coun-
try, to improve direct party
guidance to both industry and
agriculture —particularly the
latter at this juncture.

The CPSU was always or-
ganized on the production bas-
is as far as the party organiz-
ations at the bottom were
concerned, with branches or
clubs in the plants, mines, col-
lective or state farms and in-
stitutions. The leading dist-
rict, provincial, republican
and all-USSR party commit-
~ tees, however, were on a ter-

ritorial basis,

ON THE JOB

It has now been decided
that to give effective leader-
ship ‘‘on the job’, the party:
committees also must be re-
organized on the production
principle. During the past
several months conferences
have been held across the
Soviet Union and the first
stage of the reorganization is
already finished.

The districts have been en-
larged, one being organized
where there were three previ-
ously. In these new enlarged
districts, and also in the prov-
inces, not one but two lead-
ing party committees have
been established ——- one in
charge of agriculture, the
other of industry.

This “doubling” has not in-
creased the number of party
officials, but their responsibil-
ity has been pin-pointed to
direct personal leadership in
the battle of production. In-
dicative of where the stress

is now being laid is the fact
that nearly all the former sec.
retaries have been placed at
the committees in charge of
farming.
CONSTANT CONTACT
This reorganization on the
loca] and provincial scales has
already been carried out ev-
erywhere with the exception
of several northern areas of
the Russian republic and the
three western provinces of
the Ukrainian republic. Here,
the nature of the economy,
with a relatively low level
of industry, made such div-
ision unnecessary at this time.
In Kazakhstan, separate
bureaus were set up instead of
committees, also arising from
the peculiarity of the econo- ©
my in that republic.
There is of course constant
contact between the two lead-
erships which are function-
ing in the same territory, and
specia] committees take care
of tasks that do not fall into
one or another of the produc-
tive categories although
practically all can be handled
by the respective committees.
The republican and _all-
USSR _ party _leaderships,
while geared to help the low-
er committees along the two
lines of production,

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