Italy's dormant Left

The intellectual Fanos Kakouriotis analyses the state of the Italian Left in the Greek daily Eleftherotypia: "After 1991 the Left in Italy followed a ... politically correct line. ... It got rid of everything that had anything to do with the word Communism, apart from a few exceptions like the Communist Refoundation Party. After that ... it also struck the word Left from party names, giving birth to the Democratic Party. ... After the resounding defeat in Sardinia ... and the resignation of Walter Veltroni as chairman ... the Democratic Party seems to be afflicted with old-age syndrome, and to have regressed to the stage of early infancy. Today ... Berlusconi appears as Italy's most believable politician (for many the 'workers' prime minister), and in view of the prolonged dormancy in which the ... apolitical, anti-Marxist centre-left finds itself, it will ultimately be the right-wing extremists and neofascists that benefit."

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