Based on Guardian reports asa Following the reference to them in the Soviet “open lotter™ at the wook ond, Italy's "Chinese" Communists are making use of the publicity to further their own causc, They aro now planning to call their own national congress in the Autumn. Last summer Communists in Padua published three pamphlets entitled "Long Live Leninism" which criticised the leadership of Italian C.F. from a left point of view.
Four Paduan party oxecutives and three other members were expelled for breach of party discipline, Since then they hava been busily advocating their views, finding some success apparently among the Y¥.C.L.. The Paduan "Chinese" deny the existence of any of Mao's agents in their midst, "Woe took our stand over a your ago," they said in a statement issued on 15th July, "first within the Party, then outside, Ye feol that tho moment is ripe for the foundation of a Marxist Loninist party in Italy which will battle for the overthrow of the bourgoois state, for the installation of dictatorship of the proletariat, and the oreation of a Socialist society." The dissidents held their first private conference in Rome about two months ago, when 70 represe= ntatives turned up from various parts of Italy.