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A very important example of these operations which the Guardian gives was the June 7, 1976 BBC hack job on its Current Affairs program, Panorama,against the Italian Communist Party – the Partito Communista Italiano (PCI), the largest Communist Party in Europe which it reported was “on the threshold of power” in Italy.
An analysis of the end of the Salazar and Franco regimes and the transition crises that marked " the last major working class upsurges in the West in the era of the big factory".
May 2020: Piazza del Popolo, Rome. (Shutterstock)
If asked whether Italy could be the next country to leave the EU, an Italian European loyalist would probably answer the question: “
Certo che no. Che idea sciocca!” Of course not. What a daft idea!
They would then
offer a list of reasons why not: the European flag flies alongside the Italian tricolour outside all public buildings; the founding treaty of the European Economic Community that later became the EU was signed in Italy’s capital in 1957; and Italy was a founding member of the European Monetary Union, replacing the Lira with the Euro in 1999. Surely it would be unthinkable for Italy to leave the EU?