("Single issue" booklet for the XXXV Congress of The Radical Party - Budapest 22-26 april 1989)

In 1978, in Turin, a city militarised and paralysed by fear, the trial of the historical leaders of the Red Brigades was postponed because the popular jury, threatened by the terrorists one after another refused to carry out their mandate. Adelaide Aglietta, Secretary of the Radical Party drawn by lot, agreed to take part in the popular jury and refused any kind of armed protection; the example of Adelaide Aglietta enabled a trial to be celebrated which had been put off several times because of blackmail by terrorists, but also ensured respect for the trial and the rights of every individual in that court. In the past few years, the Radical Party waged a rigorous non-violent battle against terrorism, and also against the special laws and attempts on constitutional guarantees which had been made in the name of the "war against terrorism".