ABSTRACT: The text summarizes the reasons that lead the Radical Party to propose the candidacy of Toni Negri (*) at the elections of 1983.

(1994 - IL QUOTIDIANO RADICALE, 8 November 1993)

By proposing the candidacy of Toni Negri (1), of whom they declared to share neither the cultural Marxism nor the political praxis, the radicals aimed: a) to emblematically obtain the release of a prisoner who has been kept in preventive custody for 5 years; b) to urge Parliament to reduce the period of preventive custody; c) to raise the problem of parliamentary immunity, which had to then been ruthlessly used by deputies and senators accused of serious crimes.

The battle against the "Calogero theorem" was one of the most appropriate and far-reaching ever carried by the Radical Party, which paid tremendous consequences in political terms and in terms of image because of the biased information. Ten years later the Radical Party does not deny this campaign.

Translator's notes

(*) NEGRI TONI. (Padua 1933). Italian writer and philosopher, exponent of the laborite and revolutionary extreme Left, was convicted for organizing the assassination of ing. Saronio. Ran on the Radical Party ticket (provided he waive his parliamentary immunity and accepted the trial) and was elected to Parliament in 1983. He escaped his trial by fleeing clandestinely to France, where he currently lives.