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Adelaide Aglietta

President of the Green Parliamentary Group of the European Parliament, Rome, Italy

A NECESSITY

My joining the Party for 1991 is the demonstration of the fact that a non-ideological, libertarian, transnational and transpartisan political subject is A NECESSITY, to ensure the life and the organization of so many men and women's resolve to face the dramatic challenges of our time; this demonstration is enhanced today by a further hope of winning the challenge of the final motion voted in Bologna, recovering a new and complete dimension of the Radical political activity.

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Eduardo Gyorgy Rozsa

Journalist, former President of the Budapest University Youth, former member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

A POSSIBILITY, A BRIDGE

To me the transnational Radical Party is a possibility, a bridge, not only for Europe - which in my opinion would represent a geographical limitation of our ideals - but for a broader, deeper world, void of discriminations and in which differences - as regards colour, language and sex - are no longer boundaries but occasions for a mutual enrichment. This is why I am joining the Radical Party for 1991, and this is why I will do so also in year 2000.

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Emil Scuka

President of ROI (Romska Obcanska Iniciativa - Gypsy Civic Initiative)

THE RIGHTS OF THE LAST

I joined the transnational Radical Party because this party, for the fact of being transnational, struggles for the same things for which we of the ROI fight for, which are, in my opinion, the rights of the last.

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Guido Gentile

Esperantist, Treviso, Italy

SUBSCRIPTIONS: LETTER TO A HESITANT ESPERANTIST FRIEND

(...) I didn't listen to Marco's phone call, but it doesn't matter, by now I know him well enough. Marco is a passionate temperament, and at the same time extremely rational. Simply, he gets totally involved in all that he does and says, and this is how I would like other people and myself to be: often I don't behave the same way as he does simply out of fear or resignation. If you ever have the chance to listen to his "offensive attacks" (the definition used by those who don't realize how much passion there is in his "offensive attacks"), you will notice he often "gets mad" with the people who are dearest to him, and this not so much because he wants others to conform to his projects, but because they don't enact their own projects, out of fear, lack of confidence, resignation or scarce information. Personally speaking, I always prefer to have a "Zen master" beside me. Not because I am a masochist: simply, I'm REALLY interested in getting in touch with provokers, provided they are intelligent and provoke ot

her people's intelligence. This from a strictly "human" point of view. From a political-organizational point of view, I have to explain to you what the Radical Party is about, or at least what we members are trying to achieve. The Radical Party is not a party-brotherhood, where everyone has the same ideas and agrees on everything; none of all this. The Radical Party is a sort of a bus: you pay a ticket to use it. It is like a tool. If it has any principles at all, these are extremely simple: 1) everything is done with a non-violent METHOD, which does not mean unagressive or weak (Gandhi was neither unagressive nor weak); 2) everything must be carried out respecting democratically established rules. There is a big difference between aggressiveness and violence. Psychologists know that violence is the result of frustrated natural aggressiveness...We are aggressive because we want to prevent violence. Joining the Party doesn't mean joining an ideology, but rather joining a structure. Joining the Radical Party m

eans becoming a shareholder.

And as shareholders, at the end of January, if we have achieved the target of 1,000 members, that is, the MONEY NECESSARY TO SUMMON A CONGRESS, we will be able to go there are esperantists and vote to use this structure in favour also of Esperanto; if we don't join the Party, there will be neither a congress nor proposals nor votes on the esperantist proposals nor an esperantist majority voting in favour of such proposals. The question is natural: what are we doing? If esperantists are concerned only about the good conscience of being esperantists, then I'm not interested in them. That would be the equivalent of having a car with no wheels and expecting to tour the world with it...I'm not interested in being a part of another brotherhood, even if this is extremely pleasant. Likewise, Zen meditation is not a means to isolate myself from the world, to be part of a snug community of people dressed in orange, amid a group that re-creates the "inside" and the "outside". I use meditation to distinguish, in my thou

ghts, essential things from others that are not. I need it to understand that one can live with others only after having experienced true solitude, as monks know.

Paying those L.208,000 ($250) does not mean giving money to Pannella, but becoming shareholders of a financial company that will give it back in the form of services we can use, as it has done in these last years. Clearly, this is pure "utilitarianism": but sometimes utilitarianism isn't so bad, because it ensures our freedom more than many other "noble" but oppressing values. Not only do I wish you a Happy New Year, but especially a year of success for us all. Fraternal regards.

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Irene Bignardi

Journalist, film critic for "La Repubblica",

Rome, Italy

MEMORY, COURAGE, IMAGINATION

Radicals are the memory, the courage, the imagination to uphold the fundamental liberties that are dear to us.

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Ondrej Gina

Member of ROI (Rom Civic Initiative), member of the national Parliament of the Czech Republic

THAT WHICH IS COMMON TO US

"I have become a member of the Radical Party because I consider a connection between ROI and the Transnational Radical Party useful. Also because we can exchange opinions, develop ideas and collaborations for that which we consider common to our initiatives".

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Willer Bordon

Member of Parliament, Communist, Italy

AN INVESTMENT IN HOPE

I gave myself a special present for 1991. Not an ephemeral present, but a fruitful one: the new Radical Party membership card. It is an investment in the hope for a better Europe, for a world of peace and environmental and economic balance.

I expect others to be equally capable of investing in this safe, in this Stock Exchange which is the constitution of a new transnational and transpartisan political subject, in the absence of which the possibility of a reform of politics and of the institutions in the sense of a federal Europe could remain a vain hope.

Today I feel I owe you this subscription: perhaps even more than yesterday, when I decided to break ranks with a tradition cherished by the Communist Party according to which memberships must be kept limited and ecclesiastical.

As a member of the Communist Party who supports the line pursued by Occhetto, a left-wing democrat, a libertarian and liberal-socialist, European federalist and antiprohibitionist, I feel such membership is necessary not as a subtraction, but as a multiplication of resources and hopes. To achieve that major non-violent revolution for civil rights and for a social liberation which appears less impossible today compared to yesterday.

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Ilaria Occhini

Actress, Rome, Italy

WITH THE SAME ENTHUSIASM

I am joining the Party this year too with the same enthusiasm, because it is the only party, in the chaos and the corruption of official politics and of the consciences, to have always devoted attention at all times with those causes which have the purpose of safeguarding the dignity of the human being.

I hope this will encourage others to take the same decision, to make this act of hope and love.

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Nikolaj Khramov

Journalist, independent militant pacifist, Moscow, USSR

FOR A NEW EUROPE, NOT FOR AN OLD RUSSIA

I joined the Radical Party for 1991 because it is the only transnational party in the world operating beyond borders. Because this party is the only party in the Soviet Union to look ahead, toward the future, and not back to the past; it is the only party to operate in order to achieve a new Europe, not an old Russia. I joined this party also because it is the party of libertarian principles, principles that are totally new in the political culture of Russia. The only party capable of organizing a battle for the abolition of the death penalty, for an alternative civil service, a party which privileges the rights of the people and not those of the nations, the religions or the classes, unlike most other parties in the USSR.