ABSTRACT: With its nonviolence, the radical party "breaks": the compromises, the gameplaying, the mafias, the conspiracy of silence, etc. This is an era of rupture, "or quite simply THE hour": "let's not waste it with our indifference and apathy".

(RADICAL NEWS, Year XXIII of 18 May 1979)

I think the terms that applies best to what the radical party wants and is trying to achieve with its nonviolence is the verb to 'break', in all its moral and metaphorical violence.

Breaking the compromises, the gameplaying, the mafias, the conspiracy of silence; breaking this sort of alliance between idiocy and violence which is emerging in the Italian reality; breaking the correspondence between power, science and death which seems to be ruling the world; breaking everything before it's too late; and so on...

As the title of Jean Daniel's recent book implies, this is an era of rupture - or quite simply THE hour.

Let's not waste it with our indifference and apathy.

Leonardo Sciascia