Rome, December 11--R.N.--The II Congress of the Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination, which began on Friday, closed yesterday with the unanimous approval of the Motion, which we include below.

The Congress decided the adjourn until January 20 (Saturday) and 21 (Sunday) the election of the constitutional.

As regards the administrative elections, there is the possibility of autonomous presentation in regions and provinces; for cities an attempt will be made to come to a national agreement with the other political forces.

The Second National CORA Congress which met in Rome from December 8-10, 1989

points out above all that as a result of the new war, declared and imposed in the name of the prohibition of some drugs, the forces of fanaticism, intolerance and violence have joined against the fundamental principles of legality and rights, the acquisitions and the warnings of science, culture, tolerance, unleashing death, destruction and war everywhere--within society and the institutions of the real democracies, in Europe as well as in America, and in the Third World or so-called developing countries, with the criminal and crime causing use of laws, powers and special "actions", actions which place in question, yet once more in this century, the very foundations of civilization and democracy.

The costs of this war, lost every day and every day fanatically declared again, is on its way to reaching the level and seriousness of those imposed by the explosion of Real Fascist and Real Communist madness. In Latin America, Syria and Iran, or in the Far East, this war is the cause of an almost exponential growth, in some cases, of the production of these drugs. And, everywhere, it is providing the world of crime with the mammoth profits of the monopolistic control of the traffic of those products, which have acquired the value of gold rather than the agricultural value. The result is once more rendering criminal tens of millions of consumers and producers, the paralysis and corruption of justice and the police, the institutions and political power.

Points out the atmosphere of intolerance, the deterioration of the civil-political rapport, the manipulation of information, the ostracism of those who attempt to oppose this war and reduce its tragic and terrible cost, to end it restoring to democracy, tolerance, legality, and their function of life, peace and freedom.

In Italy, in particular, there is presently a process of the thwarting of any remaining Constitutional, democratic and civil regulation, thanks to the efforts mainly of the PSI (Italian Socialist Party) and the Government which every day take a more extremist and authoritarian line.

In this situation, Parliamentary debate itself on government bills aimed at worsening the intolerant prohibitionist character, a special regime of legislation, is distorted (misrepresented) and impeding public opinion from recognizing and evaluating the alternatives proposed and legislation bills. The absence of democracy and the respect of rights and the democratic process is becoming more and more the necessary condition to the prevailing of the prohibitionist ranks.

Thus, in Italy, after the defeats on the issues of divorce and abortion, there is a growing tendency towards prohibitionist revenge. If the PSI constitutes the determinant element, with its changing of ranks to the most extremist position of war and intolerance today being unleashed in the world, the opposition provided by the PCI (Italian Communist Party), the Catholic world, ecologists and laics, will inadequate if we consider the risks involved which are bringing about a general deterioration, and not only specific, in the civil and institutional spheres in Italy.

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consequently, appeals respectfully if firmly to the President of the Republic, guarantor of the Constitution, that he not passively observe the elimination of what remains of formal rights and freedom in the Italian Republic. An appeal is also made, even more urgently than on the occasion of the divorce campaign, to all democrats to provide an effective response to the resurgent intolerance and authoritarianism evident in the actions and objectives of the powers that be and the national institutions.

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decides thus to act immediately, with the utmost political and organizational commitment, to introduce into Italy and Italian politics the alternative of rights and freedom, the most radical and intransigent opposition to the devastating prohibitionist madness, intolerance and violence of power, the institutions, and the mass media, which is similar or subaltern to them by culture or through bondage.

To this end, CORA hopes that for the next regional, provincial, and city elections, wherever possible, "political-electoral tickets and actions" be created aimed at declaring the priority of the antiprohibitionist campaign by democrats, laics, ecologists, Communists, Catholics, independents and authentic Socialists who are aware of the urgency in Italy, as well as in the rest of the world, to end this mad and suicidal new war.

These political-electoral tickets and actions, wherever and however they are realized, will be supported unconditionally by CORA. Their preparation will be considered as one of the most effective and urgent responses to the pressures and the violence being applied to condition the Parliamentary debate as well as its function according to Constitutional and institutional rules and regulations.

The CORA Congress states that the government bill in question can and must be defeated. A general mobilization of public opinion, along with whatever activist and militant expedients are necessary, in their various forms--petitions assemblies, round-table discussion--can and must achieve this. Members of the Radical Party and antiprohibitionists are presently already involved in these actions.

The Second CORA Congress also addresses a solemn warning to all the political forces and Italian democrats of the danger of continuing to ignore and consider extraneous to them the actions, objectives, presence and crises of the transparty, transnational Radical Party, which is the only political organization presently promoting, and organizing--also at the international and transnational level--"the war on prohibitionist war". While, at the same time, the existent internationals, without exception--and in particular the Socialists--move within the framework of that war proposed and imposed by decisions made by the present USA government administration. Full membership in the Radical Party and CORA, for laics, ecologists and Communists, is a essential condition for the non-failure of this campaign for freedom, rights, peace, and political democracy. The crises today being experienced by the laic world, the Communist world and the ecologists, must be considered as growing pains and not as defeat nor as the

ir further deterioration or that of Italian politics. Thus, it is both urgent and necessary that the process of introversion in progress be combatted and stopped. It is necessary that the discontent, the justice and the hopes of reform and new and complete democracy, which are consistently present in these crises find their common meeting ground, practical and ideal, in and thanks to the Radical Party, and in and thanks to CORA.

The Second CORA Congress, consequently, in the conviction that it is possible to immediately realize this aim, at least partially, with exemplary assuming of responsibility, has decided to adjourn until January 20-21, 1990, in order to deliberate on the CORA statutory reforms and to elect its leadership. Thus, it has been established that the present organs and statutory provisions be extended until that time, giving them and each Radical of CORA the mandate, appealing to each Radical of the Radical Party, to ensure the objective of a new CORA, as the united and full expression of a new Italian political entity--authentically anti-fascist, democratic, liberal and libertarian, non-violent and--as in the times of the Italian Divorce League--a decisive and winning force against the new/old proposal of violence, tragic intolerance and authoritarianism.