Those who work within the Party or in contact with it know that these splinterings represent only the tip of a much larger malaise which by now has invaded the whole Party. The question, however, is more complex than this. Even in the case of those who were our allies in the long battle inside the Party, it still remains to be explained why this link is today leading them to radical-and for many of them very painful-decisions, which a year ago they still regarded as premature. When Il Manifesto first spoke out, we did not even know who many of them were. But we are not so presumptuous as to believe that our stand has been enough to provoke the present exit of many militants and leaders from the Party. To try to work for an alternative line while remaining in the Party no longer has any meaning, at a time when the ambiguities of the 12th Congress have been lifted in a negative sense, and the ‘left’ inside the Party is acting objectively as a cover for this. This will only occur-we have added-if those Communists who are aware of the errors in the current political line of the pci assume, together with others, the responsibility of building a new organization. We hold that only the existence of such a focus of reference outside the Party will be able to provoke a crisis in its current reformist line, and give this crisis a positive outcome which goes beyond mere disillusionment or simple protest. We have made no efforts to conceal our own choice: we have opted for the creation of a political and organizational centre of reference outside the pci, since we believe there is no longer any room for internal opposition within it. Attempts by the pci leadership to brand the ‘scissionist manoeuvres of Il Manifesto’ as the cause of these phenomena need hardly be taken seriously. T he last few weeks have seen a new wave of resignations and expulsions from the Italian Communist Party.
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