PARTITO COMUNISTA ITALIANO (PCI) CRITICISM OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ROME FEDERATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400580002-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Italy
SUBJECT Partito Casaunista Ital4ano (PCI) Criticism
of the Activities of the Rome Federation
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1. On the basis of reports made by special inspectors of the PCI on the
activities of the Communist federations, the Central Committee of the
PCI agreed that, from a politidal and organizational point of view, the
Communist federations function in an unsatisfactory manner. The
Central Committee, therefore, decided that adequate measures must
,be taken to bring the federations up to the standards of efficiency
required by the Party Directorate.
2. The Central Committee discovered the following deficiencies in the
Rome Communist federations
b. The results of the general elections of 18 April 1948
lowered the morale of the Communist executives and made
them rather pessimistic and apathetic, with the result
that many "comrades" no longer attend the meetings
organized by the various sections. The members of
the a sections of the Communist Party take little
or no part at all in the activities of the Party?
manifesting a disregard for the ideological and political
principles of Corn nnnl .m ,
the said committee had so far neglected to
uphold the ideological principles of Communism
and had failed to make each member a proper
legionary of the Communist army.
A disproportion between the number of executives and the
number of members which resulted in the followings
1) no adequate control could be exerted I-_,n the
activities of the members;
2) instead of guiding public opinion,'the
executive committee was subservient to
the attitude of the masses; and
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c. The circulation of Ccmrnuniet newspapers and periodicals in
the province of Rome and in Rome itself is among the lowest
in Italy.
d. No contacts are maintained among the various Communist
organizations in Rome and in many sections the executives
act according to their own judgment with great prejudice
to the co-ordinate ectivities of the party. Moreover,
the executives manifest considerable apathy and show interest
only when they are confronted with acme major task*
3. The Central Committee arrived at the conclusion that the above-reported
deficiencies show considerableek of preparation on the part of the
federation executives. Above Oillp the investigation shoes that there
are not enough capable leaders Ito deal with the various problems concerning
the national and international'situatio , the .kcal questions and the
controversies which are being debated 32t the Chamber of Deputies and
throughout the country. The present leaders are unable to solve the
various day-to-day problems and to head efficaciously the movement of
the masses. The Central Committee consequently sent the Rome Federation
a vote of censure, requesting that, in the future, the federation
executives remedy the deficiencies noticed in the conduct of the
affairs effecting so closely the life of the Communist Party and
that the executives should follow scrupulously the directives on
the general policy of the Party imparted by the Central Comieittee
itself, directives tdiich are strictly based on Marxian-Leninist doctrines.
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