The change of the masthead of this newspaper was not of our own choosing, nor was it due to even the slightest need for discontinuity or rectification with what has been published in the past and throughout the party press, which we totally claim. The fact is that, as a result of an outflow of one group from the party, we lost the bourgeois ownership of the masthead of our Italianlanguage newspaper, “Il Partito Comunista”. And we want to keep the same title for the party organs in all languages.

To the motives of those who wanted to take a different path – among them the inescapable questions of organic centralism and union address – we are not here to give contradiction or rebuttal: the answer is written in clear letters in all the columns of fifty years of our newspapers and will be confirmed in the studies and deepenings we will continue to expound in our meetings and publish in the issues to come.