Arnold Trebach

President of the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, US

I AM NOT AN ACTIVIST

I said I felt I belonged to the Party's right wing, but I believe that the ideals the party fights for belong to the best tradition of mankind...I will tell you why I joined the party...I joined it last January, when my government captured Noriega, the head of a sovereign State, and took him to the U.S. as a prisoner...at the time I felt it was right to protest, and I joined the Radical Party. I am not an activist, but an advocate of the party's fundamental approach...to believe in mankind, to believe in the control of state powers, and to believe in the fundamental goodness of human beings. For these reasons I support the Radical Party and will continue to do so.

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Andrea Tamburi

Parliamentary assistant, Florence, Italy

DEMOCRACY, FEDERALISM, ANTIPROHIBITIONISM

The quest for an independence based on a "one people, one state" pattern almost invariably prevails over the federalist approach. Palestinians versus Jews, Slovenians and Croats versus Serbians, whites versus blacks in South Africa, Estonians, Lithuanians and Ukrainians and all the other populations versus the Russians. This approach is absolutely insane. There are minorities, even consistent ones, everywhere, and considering today's incapacity to coexist among different populations within a same state, there is no reason for it to be possible tomorrow, within states created by tensions, splits, even civil wars. (...) Another factor to be considered is the increasing mass migrations caused by huge economic discrepancies. More than ever, the Northern part of the world experiences death due to an excess of nutrition which could save the Southern part of the world from starvation. (...) We belong to that Northern part of the world that accepts drugs such as alcohol and nicotine, but refuses other drugs such as

hashish, marijuana, heroin, often demonizing both the substances and the users. (...) With its federalist and antiprohibitionist stance, the radical party is the only means we to create a multiethnic and democratic society. A tiny, weak means, but one that deserves, for this very fact, to be supported through membership and participation.

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Marie Andrée Bertrand

President of the International Antiprohibitionist League, Montréal, Canada

NOT TO MILITARIZE ADHERENTS

The Radical Party is the only party I belong to. At the moment, the political difficulties of Quebec and of Canada prevent me from supporting one faction or the other of my country. To me the Radical Party represented the occasion for a transnational political engagement on problems, on issues, that cannot be checked or solved in a national dimension. Moreover, as I was telling Emma Bonino yesterday, it is necessary to avoid militarizing the adherents of a party, to avoid forcing them to march on narrow paths: they should be made to focus on important problems, and provided with the means to achieve the things they believe in. And I believe this is what the Radical Party is doing. I cannot renew my subscription simply because I have already done so...I was extremely pleased to hear that Radio Radicale has received funds to be acknowledged as an information means useful to all citizens, and I really hope to visit the Party's new premises when I come back from Athens. Together with a few colleagues from Quebec

, I have organized a small group of radicals, where I hope to invite the Party's Secretary and President, so that they can propagandize the Radical Party in Canada as well.

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Laura Terni

Rome, Italy

BECAUSE IT IS THE PARTY OF GANDHIAN NON-VIOLENCE

I am joining the Transnational and Transpartisan Radical Party for year 1991 because it is the party of Gandhian non-violence, of civil and human rights and of antiprohibitionism on drugs.

I shall pay my membership fee today (Lit. 1,000 a day, for a total of Lit. 365,000) at the Party's premises in via di Torre Argentina 76.

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Ogest Treilons

Riga, Lettonia

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE

I the undersigned Ogest Treilons, am joining the Radical Party because I basically agree with its battles in favour of the United States of Europe, and because I consider it necessary to work in the direction of a new political renaissance of East Europe and of the Baltic Republics.

I, Ogest Treilons, join the Transnational Radical Party as a member of the Lettonian Democratic Union, already well-known for its liberal-democratic positions.

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Simone Borelli

FOR ITS DEFENCE OF CONVICTS' RIGHTS

Dear companions,

first of all, allow me to introduce myself: my name is Simone Borelli, and I wish to join the Radical Party; I will send you Lit. 50,000 a month via postal order.

I am proud of joining the Radical Party for its defence of the Gozzini law in defence of the convicts' rights. I hope to hear from you soon.