Talking about democracy as an end leads to doubt: can there really be an end?

Democracy is not a static thing, but a dynamic process, where the tendency is to establish a complex of constitutional guarantees that offer the maximum political, civil and economic freedom to a group of persons or to an individual. In order to attain the desired result, one needs first of all to possess the aspiration to obtain something.

Unfortunately we need to recognise that we live in a country where, for many years, the escalation of violence on the part of the leaders, used as an official instrument for the resolution of political and economic problems, have generated terror and apathy amongst the population.

Can we today affirm that the idea of liberty, love and justice are common to the majority of our citizens?

Despite the transformations evident in the Soviet way of thinking and despite the words rights, liberty, democracy fills up official and non-official speeches, it would be hasty and short- sighted to sustain it.

Even though the West has attained a certain level of guarantee for its own citizens, it continues to sink into "non being" and is not in a position today to represent a perfect model of its system, or to express forms of protest as regards the Soviet empire, thanks to which the process of democratic tranformation in the East would be irreversible.

There is the feeling that humanity, accepting the formula "after me the deluge", has adopted this as its slogan, and that single movements of opinion are not in a position to drive it back.

The policy of institutions that move capillarly condemn entire nations to misery and hunger while the ecological balance, threatens them with extinction following this policy.

In this situation we carry a voice of love and hope in defence of those of whom non-violence, love, the thirst of justice have become reasons for living, and we call to all those who unite with us, to challenge hate, war and non-communicability.