"Ideas of great consequence are always simple ideas", Tolstoj wrote in "War and Peace".

A simple idea, but one of enormous consequence, is the one that made John F. Kennedy declare, thirty years ago, "I am a Berliner". And a simple idea, but one of enormous consequence, is the one that can make us say today, "I am a Bosnian", "I am a Chernobylian", "I am a person with AIDS", or "I am a Somali child"...

To build a just order of peace, freedom and growth, to create new laws that everyone will recognize and respect, we need a new political will and a new way of organizing it. Transnational laws are the simplest way to make the world less complicated. And to find the most effective way of fighting the threats to the environment, security and democracy.

Our method is non-violence. Our goal is to create a transnational political lobby for democracy, freedom, human and civil rights, a cleaner world, an antiprohibitionist approach to drugs; a transnational lobby capable of taking the same initiatives in many national Parliaments simultaneously. This is an adventure that calls for extraordinary human and financial resources. Thousands of women and men of good will can give it shape and strength, becoming the pioneers of a new democratic frontier.

In 1993, more than 40,000 people of 45 different nationalities joined the Transnational Radical Party. Among these are Nobel Laureates, more than 500 parliamentarians of many diverse political affiliations, Government officials, well-known figures from the cultural, scientific and religious fields, and also women and men from all walks of life.

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