from our Milan correspondent
The formation of the Italian Socialist Part: of Proidtarian Unity has opened a new phase in the class struggle in Italy. The ; centre-left regime, which was carefully prepared beforehand by Nenni, as well as by Saragat and the Christian Democrats, is now rapidly consolidating into an increasingly firm political grouping, and the decision of the left of the PSI to break away from the right must be valued as a positive action. By January 25th, 34 members (out of 101) of the Central Committee of the PSI, 1,118 mombers of provincial commit— tees (out of 3,461) and the majority of the PSI trade union cadres had joined the PSIUP: this last fact is of major importance as the essence of the centre-left experiment was to capture and control the working class precisely by enrolling the PSI in the Government (the PSI still being united with the Italian C.P. at trade union level in the CGIL). This distinct refusal on the part of the working class to fall for Nenni's domagogy about the workers getting’ into the control room of power by ontoring the (bourgeois) Government is a solid cause for continued optimism concerning the militancy of the Italian workerse