Subject: from TRANSNATIONAL - Satyagraha - No 9
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BOSNIA, RWANDA, TIBET, CHECHENYA, KURDISTAN....WHAT NEXT?
Local wars and serious crisis are not likely to cool off and stop
altogether, instead they appear to spread and become even more threatening
This unveils more and more often the International community. inability to
act as a political tool. Not capable of functioning as a point of general
equilibrium and political discussion, it lacks the necessary strength for
the affirmation of current transnational rules.
During the past months the Radical Party's efforts have achieved results of
historical level, since when, in 1988, it started the transnational issue,
as we should and ought to say it out loud.
Our success has been significant not only for our Transnational Transparty,
but also for International institutions, for justice itself, for that
scenario which still needs to be completed.
We will hold our Congress, with an exceptional effort and despite the very
bad economic conditions of our Party. Therefore, we warmly invite each
current member of the Radical Party to confirm his/her membership for 1995
right away.
The true reason for the existence of the Radical Party is the assertion of
the urgent need of a new justice in accordance with the people and the
current situation worldwide, which are increasingly strictly inter-related
and inter-connected. However, the most serious contradiction today lies in
fact in the lack of this interconnectedness with mutual rules of justice
and community spirit with those Institutions and democratic authorities
that in this way should operate.
We are the Party of International justice, we all are partners on a
political platform, pursuing very precise goals, with very precise
beneficiaries. We all are committed to make a political, and therefore
active, consideration: the only possible answer to slaughters and
genocides, violence and crime, is the affirmation of justice and its rules,
of transnational Institutions with power and authority to impose the
enforcement of such rules. With this awareness, many members of National
governments and cabinets, as well as common people, spotted the Radical
Party as the necessary political tool able to meet those challenges at
International level.
Thanks to the activities of hundreds of Parliaments members from different
countries, several National parties and associations and thousands of
people, we were able to initiate an essential civil right battle. We
pursued the goal of setting up, along with the Tribunal for War Crimes in
the former Yugoslavia, a permanent International Criminal Court, a justice
court whose decisions should be valid before each government and for every
citizen in the world.
At the United Nations we struggled for a halt on all capital punishments
and laid down the foundations for an understanding of International rights
as a concrete justice means of action.
Likewise, we have produced a political work that proves the United Nations
capable of the role as Parliament of the individuals and the peoples
inhabiting the planet.
As new realms develop inside the institutions of the European Union, due
also to my nomination as European Union commissioner by the Italian
government, we turn to this International institution to assure that the
process of political integration will steadily proceed toward a strong
federal coalition, able to soon open up to the new middle European
democracies in a necessary step.
In July 1993 our General Council and the Assembly of Members of National
Parliaments which was held in Sofia (Bulgaria), decided about the political
priorities and campaigns to be organized by the Party under my secretariat.
The results of these campaigns are shortly discussed above; most
importantly, they will be matter of discussion at the core of our Congress
debate.
During the Congress, the Radical Party will need to ask itself very
important and urgent questions about its organization model, especially
after the outcome of recent activities; about its role and its way of
managing specific campaigns; about its way of functioning as an instrument
for political and non-violent initiatives.
Of course, our Congress should also solve the financial problem,
considering the need (economical and political) to modify the current
membership situation, where the Party's Italian members are our largest
economical supporters.
We are today already studying these problems and considering several
options, such as the relocation of our headquarters to Brussels, where my
nomination as European Union commissioner and the good results of the last
June European elections - with the setting up of the European Radical
Alliance group at the EP - are opening up important and encouraging
perspectives which need to be matched by a great commitment.
To become a member of the Radical Party, instrument for the implementation
of International justice, as recognized by the UN General Secretary
himself, means, today more than ever, to invest in a life insurance - for
our lives as well as for the life of those who are threatened in their own
rights, beginning with the right to life. We are talking about individual
rights, which won't be fully respected if not first enforced and affirmed
within transnational institutions and legislation.
Emma Bonino
Secretary of the Radical Party
