SUMMARY: the general motion of the Federal Council which was held in Rome at Hotel Ergife from January 2 to January 7, was approved with 49 votes and 6 abstentions.

The Federal Council of the Radical Party, meeting in Rome at the Hotel Ergife, from January 2 to January 7, 1990, with the participation of democrats from 21 countries in Europe, America and Africa, including amongst others, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, the United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Greece,

OBSERVES that the formation of the first Party, the first organized political entity which is transnational, transpartite, federalist, European federalist, environmentalist, liberal-democratic and libertarian, the first party organized democratically by political nonviolence inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the only imagined and imaginable international association with direct, individual enrolment today in existence, is certainly reaching an advanced and exciting stage in its development;

OBSERVES the possibility, and the consequent civil, moral and political need to gain through this political entity, through this Radical Party, uniqueness, simultaneity, the convergence of its actions and its objectives from the very different and distant national situations, - whether they are those of traditional real democracy, or today undergoing liberation from real socialism, as yesterday from nazi-fascism, or from a single party or the dictatorships of the Third World;

OBSERVES that the events of Central and East Europe have noisily proposed again the evidence of the very close interdependence between the evolution of national situations shifting towards democratic solutions and the civil battles for political and social liberation, the implementation of the right to life and the life of rights, which have been and are taking place internally.

OBSERVES that developments in the Italian situation, especially because of events involving the Italian Communist Party, are more than ever confirming the past and present objectives of the mature Radical struggle in Italy which has been going on for several decades. This is a nonviolent fight for human, civil, and political rights, aiming, through a major reform of full political, federalist and nonviolent democracy, to be rid of that partitocratic regime which today presents features of dramatic, though often unrecognisable violence against justice and the Constitution itself, and at the same time, on the other hand, has seen its own crisis explode.

OBSERVES likewise, that if this party - the PCI (Italian Communist Party) - ought to be able to rely on a broad, tolerant, responsible credit opening, on substantial political aid rather than on money or enrolments (since this is not its main problem) - of all democrats, almost no aware person in Italy seems to be informed of the fact that the Radical Party has already gone as far as it can for years in the same direction, and that today it represents a process and also a precious and delicate mechanism of unity and common, creative action, which is under way in Moscow at the moment as it is in Prague, in Rome as in Ouagadougou, in Croatia as in Portugal. Moreover, this has already, sometimes for years, determined life rather than death, it has brought about liberty and liberation, the consolation of an experienced and ideal solid solidarity operating for whoever is fighting and has fought in solitude, and has incited the major newspapers and western parties to action, and not only in Italy.

OBSERVES that nobody seems to be conscious, at least in Italy, that fifty thousand members throughout the world would be enough, thousands this week, to ensure itself and all of us the life of an extraordinary and anomalous reality, a life which it seems increasingly possible to save, but which needs immediate intervention and assistance. The sickness of the Radical Party is a sickness of democracy and tolerance, a sickness due to the ignorance in which peoples and people are kept. Its effective transnationalization - which has been unveiled to us ourselves at this Federal Council - makes it similar to a sick person who needs to be given blood and oxygen, for the time it takes for the medicine to arrive. Public enrolments themselves constitute a donation of blood and oxygen, of knowledge and of opportunity and civil and political morality, without which the Radical Party, more than any other force, more than the Italian Communist Party, could disappear today. Whoever does not know or understand this, is

blighting his own hopes.

Having observed and stated this, the Federal Council

APPROVES the reports of the First Secretary and the Treasurer, and thanks them because this Federal Council session has shown how successful the Party has been in its progress and in its growth, in spite of the desperate conditions with which it has had to cope in the past few years;

APPROVES the Party's budget, which clearly shows how much its life is conditioned and mortgaged by the absence of democracy and the certainty of justice in Italy;

AFFIRMS the absolute necessity that within the EEC, from the new countries where revolutions for freedom are going on whose force seems to be acquired and to end by again proposing national-democratic models, for the institutional fight for the United States of Europe to becomes a political and social, a democratic and nonviolent battle aimed at:

1) mobilising the European Parliament and wherever possible national governments in order to progress to the programmed and punctual implementation of European Union, on the basis of the project for the new treaty adopted by the European Parliament and known as the Spinelli Project;

2) undertaking immediately every initiative possible for broadcasting information and putting pressure on Governments, parties and public opinion, so that the new democratic Constitutions which are being worked out and adopted, the laws of the new Parliaments or, wherever possible, initiatives for referendums, explicitly forecast and sanction requests to join the European Community, and the promotion of their transformation into a Federation of the United States of Europe;

3) concerning this, to prepare, the first steps of possible transnational nonviolent Gandhian action which could cause the maturing as fast as possible - due, as in India, to the force of initiatives of the people, of democrats, of the oppressed - of the liberation of Europe from the national bureaucracies in power at the moment;

AFFIRMS the importance and urgency that from the "real democracies" of countries ruled or threatened by partitocracies from liberated countries or those undergoing liberation from dictatorships, democratic reforms should be implemented, based on the essential principles of Anglo-Saxon democracy, on uninominal rather than proportional electoral systems, therefore identifying within the Italian front for the fight for an international federalist association, and within the transnational Radical Party, in East and Central Europe, two converging fronts of mobilisation to which during the next weeks and months, Radical Party militants throughout the world, should rally; and of those, who, becoming Radical in 1990, will in this way be defending and upholding the democratic values of liberty, justice, tolerance and development;

AFFIRMS that without these reforms and the Radical Party's success in bringing them about, even the absolute priority for the environment which is the essential prerequisite for a policy worthy of our planet and humanity as a whole, the very right to life and the very reason for the life of law and justice would be radically eliminated;

AFFIRMS that in the important antiprohibitionist battle and - today - in particular in the fight against the horror of the drug prohibitionist war, the defeat is at stake of what is increasingly appearing as the third monstrous folly after fascism and real communism, with similar tragic and violent illusions;

COMMITS the First Secretary, the Treasurer, the President and the President of the Radical Party's Federal Council to inform the Federal Council itself and - if possible - the whole party - within the next four weeks, of the evaluations of the concrete proposals which emerged from the work of the Council itself and on the decisions carried out, or, as far as possible in the process of being adopted;

HOPES that the Radical Party will shortly be able to hold a second "Italian" Congress.

To conclude, the Radical Party solemnly urges all Radicals to observe that 1.000 enrolments in two weeks, 5.000 by February, 10.000 by March and 50.000 before the year is over appear to be the absolutely necessary technical conditions indispensable to guarantee our epoch and our society the continuation rather than the disappearance of the Radical Party. Without a collective commitment to assuming responsibility, without the commitment too of celebrities to whom enrolment signifies the force of scandalous truth and good will, in the present situation where awareness, information, democracy, the certainty of justice and the equality of rights are totally lacking, this hope would certainly be suffocated and those themselves who know, would effectively choose to annihilate, to eliminate this Party and this hope.