The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11

SOl1nTS amnesty.
Even the political prisoners SUI
fering in the hideous islands will
not benefit from Mussolini,s "gen-
crosby" unless they pledge not to
carry on any anti-fascist activity
once they are free. 1t is true that
all Of them are to serve no more
than five years in the islands, but
1t is also true that for those who
refused to be forced into deserving
the class struggle, the terms are
automatically extended without any
trial.
"ANINESTY"-A
BLOODY JEST.
MussoHni's amnesty" appears
therefore as a bloody jest and
demagogic maneuver. The workers
and peasants of Italy are partici-
pating in ever greater numbers in
anti-faScist struggles, in struggles
against hunger and for freedom.
The crisis is deepening, unemploy-
ment is spreading. More than two
million workers are affected by I'M
employment. AS the fourth winter
of the economic crisis approaches,
carrying in its wake more misery
for the workers, hundreds Of en-
ployed and unemployed demonstra-
tons are taking place in the Pc
Valley and in Milan, peasants re-
volts are spreading in Southern
Italy, anti-war struggles of SOL
diers and sailors are occurring
throughout the country, striking
fear in Mussolini's heart.
In view of this increasing mill
fancy of the Italian workers and
peasants hundreds Of toilers are
being arrested; the fascist jails
and islands are being filled with
more anti-faScists; Communists are
being sentenced by the Infamous
Special Tribunal to heavy prison
terms. At the same time the fascist
government unleashes a new wave
of terror against the political pris-
oners, held as hostages. This wave
of terror is part of the general
offensive which italian capitalism
is intensifying to break the work
ers' militant resistance to its hun
ger program.
WHILE Mussolini was promising
W his fake amnesty" to the poor
deluded fools" as he cynically call
ed the workers and peasants filling
the fascist jails and islands, hun
dreds Of political prisoners went on
hunger strikes to protest against
this murderous new wave of fascist
terror.
The amnesty" naneuver does
not express therefore, the
strength of fascism' but the fear
by which Mussolini and his capt.
talist masters are seized in the
face of the workers struggle
against misery, starvation, irnpe-
rialist war; for the liberation Of
the political prisoners, the aboli-
ton of the Special Tribuntal, etc.
The American workers must not
allow any let-up in this struggle.
They must show their solidarity to
the political prisoners Of Italy now
on hunger strike who face the same
fate of Gastone Sozzi and others
murdered in jail. Terracini, Ii
Causi and Pianezza, three of the
best leaders of the Communist Par
ty, are in danger. They are very
Ill in prison infirlnary which is
in a real sense the ante-chamber
Of the grave.
THE SOCIALISTS
"HELP OUT"
The italian workers, especially,
must not let themselves be n1isled
by the Socialists who in their press
try to ridicule the importance Of
the struggle for a real and uncon-
ditional amnesty for all political
prisoners.
In the face of the mass anger
aroused by the report that Terra
cini, Ii Causi and PianeZza we're
in danger, the Socialists, in their
paper, "Stampa Liberia, printed
an appeal issued by the United
Front Committee for he liberia
ton of Italian political prisoners.
But commenting upon the fake am
nesty promised by Mussolini, these
gentlemen editorially declared in
"Stampa Liberia" that even real
unconditional amnesty would not
benefit the italian political pris-
oners who would be merely trans
ferred from the Jail of Civitavec-
CHA or VolterTa to the larger pris-
on which is Italy under fascism.
They concluded that only the So
cial revolution would free them.
IT is clear that they aimed to dis
courage the Italian workers from
mobilizing in defense of their
brothers, for an unconditional am
nesty and other immediate de-
nands. Hiding behind revolution
airy" phraseology, they sought to
lull the workers into passivity.
Ii is significant, incidentally,
that several italian social-demo-
Gratis now living in France, are
openly advocating the necessity of
entering some sort of agreement
with Mussolini and return to Italy.
The Italian workers must answer
the treacherous demagogy of the
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