Il Partito Nuovo, September 1991

ABSTRACT: Once again, in the heart of Europe, wars that remind of the '30s are breaking out. Fearing the consequences of the fall of the Soviet empire, support is given today to the "militarist and racist coup" of a "palaeo-Bolshevist" army and of a "racist and national-communist rabble-rouser". Already in August, the European powers declared to be concerned about "Gorbachev's life", but said to be ready "not to interfere" in the "domestic affairs" of the U.S.S.R. In other words, "not to condemn" the coup that was under way. What matters for the West is the immediate reinstatement of a "new order".

(1994 - IL QUOTIDIANO RADICALE, 22 November 1993)

In the very heart of Europe, wars that remind of the '30s are breaking out again, and Europe is behaving exactly in the same way as it behaved against the irresistible rise of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Franco and dozens more left and right-wing dictators. Fearing the consequences of the fall of the Soviet empire and of the criminal order it guarantied - just as it had feared the disorder that might follow the Treaties of Versailles, and had passively witnessed its Nazi and fascist" overcoming" - today the West shows the way to the Soviet empire and the new Jacobin dictators: supporting, as has been taking place for over a year, the militarist and racist coup, the arrogant and warlike provocation which a palaeo-bolshevist army and a racist and national-communist rabble-rouser like Milosevic are carrying out against the democratic, anti-totalitarian, European and non-nationalist choices of Slovenia and Croatia, against the human, political and civil rights of the Albanian population of Kosovo, and against the

democrats of Serbia.

Already during the August coup, when it seemed that it could triumph, Mitterrand, Andreotti and the European Community (and initially even Bush) declared to be concerned, in humanitarian terms, for Gorbachev's life, but at the same time that they were ready "not to interfere" in the "domestic affairs" of the U.S.S.R., i.e. not to condemn the coup in any way, acknowledging the authors of the coup as the legal representatives of the U.S.S.R. and of its republics and population. Europe and part of the West are thus showing the Soviet coupists of tomorrow, the military army and the army of bureaucrats, the "saviours of the country" against the post-communist and "democratic" chaos, that what they are concerned about it imposing a new order at once, by all means. Those who might have any doubts or fears about dominating the former Empire at the cost of new massacres and mass deportations, as for the populations of the Volga-Don in the thirties, are thus being explicitly encouraged.

Translator's notes

(1) PANNELLA MARCO. Pannella Giacinto, known as Marco. (Teramo 1930). Currently President of the Radical Party's Federal Council, which he is one of the founders of. At twenty national university representative of the Liberal Party, at twenty-two President of the UGI, the union of lay university students, at twenty-three President of the UNURI, national union of Italian university students. At twenty-four he advocates, in the context of the students' movement and of the Liberal party, the foundation of the new radical party, which arises in 1954 following the confluence of prestigious intellectuals and minor democratic political groups. He is active in the party, except for a period (1960-1963) in which he is correspondent for "Il Giorno" in Paris, where he established contacts with the Algerian resistance. Back in Italy, he commits himself to the reconstruction of the radical Party, dissolved by its leadership following the advent of the centre-left. Under his indisputable leadership, the party succeeds in

promoting (and winning) relevant civil rights battles, working for the introduction of divorce, conscientious objection, important reforms of family law, etc, in Italy. He struggles for the abrogation of the Concordat between Church and State. Arrested in Sofia in 1968 as he is demonstrating in defence of Czechoslovakia, which has been invaded by Stalin. He opens the party to the newly-born homosexual organizations (FUORI), promotes the formation of the first environmentalist groups. The new radical party organizes difficult campaigns, proposing several referendums (about twenty throughout the years) for the moralization of the country and of politics, against public funds to the parties, against nuclear plants, etc., but in particular for a deep renewal of the administration of justice. Because of these battles, all carried out with strictly nonviolent methods according to the Gandhian model - but Pannella's Gandhi is neither a mystic nor an ideologue; rather, an intransigent and yet flexible politician - h

e has been through trials which he has for the most part won. As of 1976, year in which he first runs for Parliament, he is always elected at the Chamber of Deputies, twice at the Senate, twice at the European Parliament. Several times candidates and local councillor in Rome, Naples, Trieste, Catania, where he carried out exemplary and demonstrative campaigns and initiatives. Whenever necessary, he has resorted to the weapon of the hunger strike, not only in Italy but also in Europe, in particular during the major campaign against world hunger, for which he mobilized one hundred Nobel laureates and preeminent personalities in the fields of science and culture in order to obtain a radical change in the management of the funds allotted to developing countries. On 30 September 1981 he obtains at the European parliament the passage of a resolution in this sense, and after it several other similar laws in the Italian and Belgian Parliament. In January 1987 he runs for President of the European Parliament, obtaini

ng 61 votes. Currently, as the radical party has pledged to no longer compete with its own lists in national elections, he is striving for the creation of a "transnational" cross-party, in view of a federal development of the United States of Europe and with the objective of promoting civil rights throughout the world.

(2)ANDREOTTI GIULIO. (Rome 1919). Exponent of the Christian Democratic Party. Secretary of A. De Gasperi, very young, as under-secretary of the Presidency of the Council, he began an uninterrupted career as minister: Interior (1954), Finance (1955-58), Treasury (1958-59), Defence (1959-66), Industry (1966-68), Budget (1974-76). Prime Minister from 1972 to 1973, then from 1976 to 1979 and from 1990 to date.