16–25 August 1951, Third World Congress of the Fourth International
"In Italy, the elections of spring 1951 demonstrated the general maintenance of the positions of the workers' parties (with some local reinforcements) and a shift of bourgeois votes from the dominant Catholic party towards the parties of the right (neo-fascist, liberal, etc.). This indicates the persistence of powerful working-class positions and the beginning of a crisis of leadership within the bourgeoisie."