Soviet Union
THE RADICALS HAVE RESUMED THE COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES IN THE STREETS OF MOSCOW FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ALTERNATIVE CIVIL SERVICE.
Moscow, 14 May 1991. Nikolaj Khramov, Andrej Kuzin and Sergej Vorontsov have resumed the information campaign on the Radical Party on the Arbat, as well as the collection of signatures for the petition for the acknowledgement of conscientious objection. After four hours of activity, 235 people had signed the petition, and two people had announced their intention to join the Radical Party. The Muscovite Radicals decided to continue their activity in the streets of Moscow every day until the end of the summer.
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Italy
THE CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES THE MOTION AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL PROLIFERATION OF WEAPON SYSTEMS PRESENTED BY OVER ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. FIRST SIGNERS PICCOLI AND BONINO (RADICAL PARTY). THE SUPPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS, OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, OF THE INTERPARLIAMENTARY....
Rome, 14 May 1991. The Chamber of Representatives passed the motion binding the government to operate for the creation of an international regime capable of preventing the proliferation of major conventional weapon systems (aircraft, helicopters, warships, missiles, armoured vehicles, artillery, electronic matériel...).
The motion obtained a vast majority: 350 favorable votes, 9 unfavorable, 3 abstained. The motion had been submitted by Emma Bonino and signed by Flaminio Piccoli, Giorgio Napolitano, Margherita Boniver, Giuseppe Zamberletti, Antonio Del Pennino, Raffaele Costa, Franco Bassanini, Gianni Lanzinger...
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Italy
MOTION AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL PROLIFERATION OF WEAPON SYSTEMS. STATEMENT BY EMMA BONINO, PRESIDENT OF THE RADICAL PARTY.
Rome, 14 May 1991. "The Gulf War proved the huge economic and human costs that are necessary to destroy a warmachine, and the need to intervene in advance, to prevent its creation. We need to intervene both on the demand and on the supply, creating conferences in the Third World too, than can have the same impact which the Helsinki conference had for Europe. The passage of this motion is an internationally relevant fact. Now we shall propose similar initiatives to the other parliaments of the world, because such perspective can be successful only if we can create an international lobby capable of counterbalancing the power of the 'military-industrial complex' first denounced by Eisenhower. This is the challenge we are trying to win as a transnational Radical Party, thus pointing out a possible alternative to the growth of war, environmental disasters, misery and famine. We consider the support of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Perez De Cuellar, to the initiative extremely significant, as the fa
ct that the European Parliament and the Interparliamentary have already taken steps in the same direction.
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Italy
REFERENDUM ON PREFERENTIAL VOTES: IT IS LIKE USING CAMOMILE TO CURE CHOLERA. STATEMENT BY GIOVANNI NEGRI, RADICAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Rome, 15 May 1991. "I have much respect for the friends with whom we promoted the electoral referendums which were rejected by the Constitutional Court; however, in itself, the referendum for the single preferential vote, presented as a medicine to cure the degeneration of the party system, strikes me as too mild a solution, like using camomile to cure cholera". (...). "We can only hope that the referendum as an institution will not be damaged, and repeat that the true Reform is the Anglo-Saxon system of voting, the liberation of the public administration from the occupation of the parties and a major change of the leading class".
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Soviet Union
APPEAL TO THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR AND TO THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC TO URGE THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE RIGHT TO REFUSE THE MILITARY SERVICE".
Moscow, 15 May 1991. The Mothers of Soldiers Committee, the Radical Party, the International "Civic Peace" Association, the liberal group of the Mossoviet, the Union for Social Protection "Shield" and the Memorial organization addressed an appeal to the Supreme Soviets of the Soviet Union and of Russia, urging them to acknowledge the right to refuse the military service. The signers stress the fact that the passage of a law on the organization of an alternative civil service would contribute, among other things, to the democratization of Soviet society, to the reduction of military expenses in the country, to the enhancement of international détente, to the removal of the political, legal and psychological obstacles that hinder the creation of a United Europe, and especially the creation of a united juridical system for the whole of Europe.
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European Community
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SAYS YES TO THE DISTRIBUTION TO DRUG ADDICTS OF STERILE DISPOSABLE SYRINGES IN EXCHANGE FOR DIRTY ONES. YES TO THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF METHADONE. YES TO CONDOMS IN PRISONS. ACCORDING TO MARCO TARADASH, SPEAKER OF THE CULTURE COMMITTEE, THIS REPRESENTS AN ACT OF ENORMOUS VALUE.
Strasbourg, 15 May 1991. The European Parliament passed the report on the 1991-1993 program "Europe against AIDS" with an overwhelming majority, 259 favourable votes, 14 unfavourable and 5 abstained. It passed all the amendments proposed by the speaker of the environment committee, the French socialist Léon Schwartzenberg, and by the speaker of the culture committee, Marco Taradash, antiprohibitionist member of the European Parliament.
In particular, an amendment by Taradash and the Culture Committee was passed, introducing a new plan aimed at reducing the diffusion of the HIV virus and of AIDS among drug addicts by distributing sterile disposable syringes in exchange for dirty ones. The European Parliament also approved the controlled oral administration of methadone and the availability of condoms also in prisons.
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European Community
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S VOTE. MARCO TARADASH STATEMENT.
Strasbourg, 15 May 1991. "This vote has an extraordinary meaning. Means of intervention against AIDS which only we antiprohibitionists had advocated until yesterday, often encountering an irresponsible and strong resistance, are now formally recognized with a political act passed by the European Parliament almost unanimously, with the favourable vote of conservatives, Christian Democrats, liberals, socialists, Greens and Left. Europe at its highest democratic level thus gives impulse to the activity of all antiprohibitionist members of Parliament and militants who, often unsuccessfully, submitted similar documents as the one passed by the European Parliament today to several Italian regions and municipalities".
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Italy
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AIDS VICTIMS IN THE CEMETERY OF PADUA IF AN OFFENSE TO COMMON INTELLIGENCE, AND REPRESENTS A TOTAL LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE DIGNITY OF THE VICTIMS AND OF ALL THOSE WHO LOVED THEM.
Padua-Rome, 16 May 1991. Commenting on the discrimination of AIDS victims in the cemetery of Padua, Vanna Barenghi, Vice Secretary of the Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination stated that "as far as the burial of AIDS victims in special sections of the cemetary of Padua is concerned, the CoRA underlines that similar episodes are on the one hand a demonstration of guilty ignorance, which is justified by no scientific basis on the ways in which the disease is diffused, and on the other hand represents an offence against common intelligence, not to mention the complete, vile lack of respect for the dignity of the victims and of those who loved them, who are forced to use a series of useless and absurd "precautions". Episodes such as this, said Barenghi, make us wonder at the way in which the money allotted for information campaign on AIDS promoted by the Health Ministry are really spent. Clearly, these are ineffective campaigns, which, precisely owing to their ineffectiveness, could cause an increase in the a
lready strong discrimination against AIDS patients".
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Yugoslavia - Italy
URGENT PARLIAMENTARY INTERPELLATION WITH ORAL REPLY TO THE FOREIGN MINISTER.
Rome, 16 May 1991. The senators of the European Federalist and Environmentalist Group Lorenzo Strik Lievers, Franco Corleone, Domenico Modugno, members of the Radical Party, Gianfranco Mariotti and Marco Boato addressed an urgent parliamentary interpellation to the Foreign Minister. They point out the risk of considering the events in Yugoslavia simply as "domestic affairs" of that country, and not as a greater European problem which affects interests and responsibilities of the whole of Europe.
The signers also ask to know which urgent initiatives the Italian Government has taken within the European Community to urge the Community itself to exert its own political responsibilities as regards the Yugoslavian situation, using all the instruments it can dispose of to encourage a peaceful and democratic solution capable of ensuring the full expression and peaceful coexistence of the different national entities, in the spirit of European federalism.
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Soviet Union - Georgia
INTERPARTY COOPERATION BETWEEN THE RADICAL PARTY AND THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF GEORGIA.
Tbilissi-Moscow, 17 May 1991. The proposal to develop common initiatives between the Radical Party and the National Democratic Party of Georgia (PNDG), advanced last November during the congress of the Georgian Party, has had one first effect. According to the agreement signed between the PNDG's executive committee and the Radical Party's Muscovite centre, the Muscovite Radicals, together with Giorgi Zumbazde, member of the PNDG's directive committee, will provide to the distribution of information on the political situation of Georgia to the mass media, to the political parties and to the public.
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Italy
FISHING FOR PUBLICITY...AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS. STATEMENT BY ENZO CUCCO, SECRETARY OF THE FUORI, RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL ASSOCIATION, AND REGIONAL COUNCILLOR OF PIEDMONT.
Turin, 17 May 1991. Enzo Cucco, Radical antiprohibitionist regional councillor, presented an urgent interrogation to the President of the Piedmont region, asking the President himself to consider the hypothesis of suing the councillor Rossi di Montelera for having defined "morally reprehensible" the behaviour of the Region, which sponsored and financed the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the birth of the homosexual movement. Cucco said that "Councillor Rossi di Montelera has a good knowledge of statistics, therefore he knows he can count on a full 46 per cent of the Italian population who considers homosexuals more disagreeable than all other categories of possible disagreeable people (blacks, Arabs, Jews, drug addicts, Gypsies, etc), and since he needs publicity, he could think of nothing better than fueling the usual polemic against homosexuals".
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Rumania - Italy
THE RUMANIAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS ALL ACCUSATIONS AND MAINTAINS ITALY IS PREVENTING OUR AIDS EXPERTS FROM TAKING PART IN THE CONFERENCE IN FLORENCE.
Rome, 18 May 1991. The member of the European Parliament Marco Taradash, radical, antiprohibitionist, met the chargé d'affaires Mr Gheorghe Pancraziu Juliu GHeroghiu and the head of the consular section Mr Jon Negescu at the Rumanian embassy in Rome. The meeting had been requested after Professor Ferdinando Aiuti had informed that bureaucratic or political problems prevented two prominent Rumanian scientists, Professors Ludovic Pau'n and Jipa Gheorghe of the Victor Babes Hospital of Bucharest, from taking part in the international AIDS conference in Florence next June. On behalf of the Rumanian government, the embassy officials formally denied that the difficulties were coming from the Rumanian authorities, who guarantee full freedom of circulation to all its citizens and especially to prominent scientists such as Professors Pau'n and Gheorghe.
According to the Rumanian representatives, the obstacle lies in extremely restrictive Italian visa procedures adopted by the Italian Embassy in Bucharest. Taradash listened to the statements of the Rumanian government and guarantied that, together with the exponents of the radical Party, who have already presented interrogations in Parliament on the matter, he would urge the Italian authorities to put an end to this absurd embargo against eminent personalities of European science as soon as possible.
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Italy
"PRESIDENT COSSIGA MUST DECIDE: EITHER PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OR HEAD OF A PARTY AIMING AT THE ABSOLUTE MAJORITY AT THE NEXT ELECTIONS. NO TO TORBID AND TRAGICAL PRECEDENTS". STATEMENT BY MARCO PANNELLA.
Rome, 21 May 1991. It may well be that the ideas, the objectives, the judgements, the political passions of President Cossiga are necessary for the safety and the progress of the country far more than his functions as guarantor of the Constitution and of the rights and dignity of all citizens.
However, if Francesco Cossiga continued to support this hypothesis, in the end it would be dutiful, as well as legitimate, for him to resign from President, and responsibly and democratically take the lead of a (new) party, with which he could try to obtain the absolute or relative majority of votes at the most within a year, as a result of a clear, exemplary and responsible act. He would thus show he resists the temptation of torbid and tragical precedents, expedients, shortcuts and emergencies.
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Soviet Union - Kazakhstan
NEW PERSECUTIONS AGAINST THE RADICAL ZIJAHAN SHAJGELDINOV
Alma-Ata, 21 May 1991. Zijahan Shajgeldinov was sentenced to pay a fine amounting to 50 rubles for having collected signatures on the petitions promoted by the Radical Party. Still not "satisfied", the attorney of the district of Shajgeldinov instituted legal proceedings against him for "unauthorized organization of demonstrations". According to the criminal code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, this charge involves a penalty of up to 6 months of prison or a fine amounting to 2.000 rubles. Moreover, Zijahan will be submitted to a compulsory psychiatric examination, despite the fact that a previous examination on 13 Novenber had declared him to be "normal".
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Italy
THE CASE OF ROSA MASCI, A PRISONER SUFFERING FROM AIDS, BRAIN CANCER AND WHO IS SEMIPARALYZED.
Rome, 21 May 1991. After the visit to the prison of Rebibbia of the radicals Sandro Tessari, Luigi Cerina and Paola Tavella, Rosa Masci, a prisoner who suffers from AIDS and brain cancer and is semiparalysed, was hospitalized at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. The Radicals continue to present interrogations urging the government to release Rosa Masci, in conformity with the norms on AIDS patients contained in the prison regulations.
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Soviet Union
VALERIJA NOVODVORSKAJA, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC UNION AND MEMBER OF THE RADICAL PARTY, TRANSFERRED TO THE KGB LEFORTOVO PRISON.
Moscow, 21 May 1991. Valerija Novodvorskaja, founding member of the Democratic Union and member of the radical Party, has been transferred to the KGB Lefortovo prison. Valerija Novodvorskaja was accused of making propaganda for the violent overthrowing of the constitutional order (Art. 70 of the Russian criminal code), a charge which, if confirmed, can involve several years of prison. The basis of the charge is represented by a letter, called letter of the "12", written after the tragical events of Vilnius, in which Valerija Novodvorskaja and other leaders of the Democratic Union invited the population to overthrow the totalitarian regime with the use of force. Novodvorskaja said that among the motivations of her subsequent adhesion to the Radical Gandhian nonviolent party, there is also the intention to prove that despite this appeal she has always supported nonviolent positions.
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Soviet Union
APPEAL TO THE CONGRESS OF RUSSIA FOR THE CONTROL OF ARMS SALES
Moscow, 21 May 1991. 11 members of the Liberal group of the Moscow Soviet launched an appeal to the fourth congress of the Russian Soviet for a drastic reduction of arms sales to the Third World. This initiative, promoted by Alexandr Kalinin, member of the Radical Party's Federal Council, Valerij Fadeev, Dmitrij Jagodin, Aleksandr Solovjev, Aleksej Pogorilyj and others, is based on the resolution drafted by exponents of the radical Party which was recently passed by the Italian Parliament.
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China - Italy
ON HIS VISIT IN PEKING THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE MICHELIS CONFIRMS THAT CHINA HAS AUTHORIZED THE VISIT OF AN OFFICIAL ITALIAN DELEGATION TO TIBET WITHIN THIS SUMMER.
Peking-Rome, 22 May 1991. From China, where he is on an official visit, the Italian Foreign Minister De Michelis has informed the radical deputy Negri that the Chinese authorities have given authorization for a delegation of Italian parliamentarians and journalists to visit Tibet during the summer.
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China - Italy
DELEGATION TO TIBET: STATEMENT BY RADICAL GIOVANNI NEGRI
Rome, 22 May 1991. "I thank Mr De Michelis for having informed me at once. It is an excellent result for the entire Foreign affairs committee headed by President Piccoli which visited China a few days ago, and for a Foreign Minister who has decided to place the problem of human rights and of Tibet at the centre of his talks in Peking.
In addition to the tragedy of the Tibetan people, the course of history itself - from Tien An Men Square to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, which strikes the greatest democracy in Asia - proves the need for an area of peace and détente in the heart of a continent so crucial for the world.
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Italy
DRUGS: DAILY AVERAGE DOSE, AN UNACCEPTABLE CRITERION.
STATEMENT BY GIANCARLO ARNAO, PRESIDENT OF THE CORA'S SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE.
Rome, 22 May 1991. "We acknowledge that the lawyer of the State himself admitted that the "daily average dose" is an unfeasible criterion for the application of the new law on drugs. If this attitude becomes part of the judicial praxis, we will experience a return to the criterion of the "moderate quantity" at the discretion of the judge. However, we gather that the average daily doses would be applied in any case to non drug addicts, and especially to consumers of soft drugs, who represent the vast majority of consumers of illegal substances and who do not have problems with addiction. This would consolidate an unacceptable situation from the point of view of logic and science: it would mean criminalizing the consumers of less toxic substances.
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Czechoslovakia
DRUGS-ANTIPROHIBITIONISM: AN INFORMATION CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED BY THE WEEKLY "REFLEX" AND BY THE RADICAL PARTY
Prague, 24 May 1991. The weekly magazine Reflex dedicated its cover article to the subject of drugs and antiprohibitionism. In its introduction to the report and to the series of articles, the magazine informs it shall conduct an information campaign together with the Radical Party.
The long feature on drugs and antiprohibitionism, published on the issue which is currently being distributed, is signed by Josef Rauvolf, and gives an ample survey on the problem of drugs from the point of view of the laws that repress and prohibit its use.
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Italy
THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER DE MITA IS ASCERTAINED. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF THE LEFT AND THE PROMOTERS OF THE REFERENDUM SHOULD EXPLAIN THE ELECTORS WHICH REFORM THEY ARE PURSUING.
Rome, 24 May 1991. Following the statements of the former Prime Minister De Mita, Peppino Calderisi, radical, President of the European Federalist Group said that "the promoters of the referendum should acknowledge the absolute instrumentality of the adhesion given by De Mita. An attitude which is proved not only by the statements on the referendum relative to preferential votes, but also by his statements against the majority system and in favour of the proportional one, after he endorsed two referendums - the one on the Senate and on municipal administrations - which advocated a uninominal, majority system. Having cleared this misunderstanding, the promoters of the referendum and the Democratic Party of the Left especially, should explain all the electors which reform they are pursuing, whether the maintenance of the proportional system and the proposals of De Mita, or a uninominal, majority system such as the one asked by the two referendums that were rejected by the Constitutional Court". (...).
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Czechoslovakia
DEMONSTRATION FOR TIBET
Prague, 24 May 1991. A dozen radicals took part in the demonstration in favour of Tibet organized by the Association "Pratele Tibetu" (Friends of Tibet), which had explicitly requested the participation of the Radicals. About a dozen citizens walked to the Chinese Embassy, where the Chinese diplomats allowed no contact, while several Chinese security agents illegally took pictures of each participant.
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Italy
AIDS: ROSA MASCI RELEASED
Rome-Rebibbia, 24 May 1991. Rosa Masci, the prisoner of Rebibbia, member of the Radical Party, who suffers from AIDS, has been released.
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Italy
GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ARCoD
Rome, 24 May 1991. At the conclusion of its meeting, the General Council of the ARCoD decided to endorse next month's referendum initiative on the abolition of preferential votes, provided all the parties that promote this referendum explain their position on the subject of the electoral and institutional reforms by means of draft bills or other referendums.
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Soviet Union
THE WEEKLY MAGAZINE 'NEW TIME' PUBLISHES AN ARTICLE AGAINST PROHIBITION ON DRUGS
Moscow, 25 May 1991. In an article called "Living with drugs?" the sociologist Leonid Ionin suggests the legalization of drugs. It is the first time, in the Soviet Union, that a magazine of such prestige openly talks about the legalization of drugs.
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Soviet Union - Georgia
HUMAN RIGHTS: 72 POLITICAL PRISONERS IN GEORGIA
Tbilissi, 25 May 1991. In an open letter to the international society for human rights based in Frankfurt, Geirgij Chanturia, President of the opposition party, the Democratic National Party, revealed that there are currently 72 people imprisoned in Georgia for political or religious reasons.
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Soviet Union
ESTONIAN CONSCIENTIOUS PRISONER IVO MAGI JOINS THE RADICAL PARTY
Moscow, 26 May 1991. In a letter sent from the work camp where he is currently detained, to the Muscovite centre of the Radical party, Ivo Magi, 24, Estonian prisoner of peace, informs of his wish to join the Radical Party. Magi was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment after he abandoned his military unit having realized that he could no longer serve in an army which occupied his country. Given the restrictive norms relative to the possession of money in USSR's work camps, the Muscovite Radicals collected money to cover his membership fee. Those who are interested in writing to him can contact him at the following address: Moscow, P.O. Box 5110/1 - YuM - USSR. You can also write to the attorney to remind him of the Magi case at the following address: Attorney's Office of USSR - Moscow 103793 - GSP, Pushkinskaja pl. 15a - USSR.
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Czechoslovakia
TANK SALES: THE RADICALS FORWARD THE MOTION PASSED BY THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT TO THE HIGHEST AUTHORITIES OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN STATE.
Prague, 27 May 1991. The Radicals sent President Havel, the Prime Minister Calfa, the Minister Vavrousek and the President of the Federal Assembly Dubcek, the translation of the text of the motion recently passed by the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the control of the sale and trade of conventional weapons. In the letter which accompanies this document, the Radicals propose "the adoption of a similar document on the part of Czechoslovakia, so that the latter may play an active role in the creation of an international coordination on the problem of the conversion of military industry and trade".
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Italy
A COMMON COORDINATION NOW, THEN THE CONVENTION OF DEMOCRATS. THE FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE CONVENTION PROMOTED BY THE ARCoD, THE LIBERAL CLUBS, FORUM OF DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS, THE CLUBS OF THE LEFT. "THE CORE OF THE CRISIS IS THIS SYSTEM OF PARTIES. NO REFORM IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE UNINOMINAL-MAJORITY SYSTEM".
Rome, 30 May 1991. At the conclusion of the convention "for a democratic constituent assembly" promoted by the ARCoD (Radical Association), the Liberal Clubs for an alternative, the Forum of Democrats, the Independents for a reform and the Clubs of the Left, a coordinating committee was created and a convention of democrats was scheduled.
The final document states that "no reform of politics is possible without an electoral reform which rejects the proportional system, the core of the degeneration of politics and of the perpetuation of the score of parties and of the consociational regime.
We pursue an electoral reform which is based, for that which concerns the representation in the elective assemblies, on a uninominal-majority system; and, as far as the government functions are concerned, which is based on direct election at all levels - local, regional, national - so that the elected representatives may be personally responsible toward the electors".
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Soviet Union
PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET
Moscow, 30 May 1991. In a press conference organized by the deputy of the Moscow Soviet, the radical Alexandr Kalinin, and which was attended by Andrej Saveljev (Social Democratic Party of the Russian Federation), Anatolij Zheludkov (Greens), Boris Kagarlickij (Socialist Party), Sergej Shornikov ("initiativa" group), unofficial agreements were denounced for the division of power between the Moscow Soviet generally and Gavriil Popov in particular on the one hand, and the old structures of the nomenclature on the other.
