N°  12  December 2000 Sommario (in italian) Rossana Rossanda CONSTITUENT UNDERTAKING     The Left and the Vote   How can the defeat of the Left be avoided in 2001? How can the damage beimited or the conditions be created for a subsequent recovery? We tried to outline a proposal in the last issue of the magazine, however, very different stances and states of mind eist between the Left and our proposals. It is only right that these differences are brought to light and a comparison is made. Fausto Bertinotti NON BELLIGERANCY PROVIDED THAT...   Luisa Muraro THE LEFT AND THE VOTE   Valentino Parlato THE LEFT AND THE VOTE   Pierluigi Sullo THE LEFT AND THE VOTE     Giorgio Cremaschi CGIL THE CONGRESS HAS BEGUN   Graziano Fracassi TRADE UNIONS, 23rd JULY AND AROUND THAT TIME     Eugenio Mistral, Massimo Serafini THE SUN IS NOT SMILING     Mario Santostasi NEW PRIVATISATIONS   EPSU TRADE UNIONS SAY NO   Franco Giordano THE ITALIAN AFFAIR   Marco Mazzoli COOPERATIVE OR JOINT-STOCK COMPANY?     Mario Agostinelli THE FORMIGONI MODEL     American Elections   The astonishing event regarding the questions surrounding the ballot, holds the American political model, part of a decade-old myth in Italy, up to ridicule. In fact, the old limits of majoritary democracy, and above all, new elements of crises in modernolitical institutions (overspending, approval among parties, mass abstenteeism) have emerged in the electoral process. Aldo Tortorella NEW POLITICAL SURPRISES   Joseph A. Buttigieg AMERICAN ELECTIONS: THE LEFT     Luigi Cavallaro THE ‘RIGHT TAX’ (FOR CAPITAL)   Cesare Cases PASTOR DIABOLICUS   Suzanne de Brunhoff PENSION FUND CAPITALISM     Etienne Balibar EUROPE. AN IMPOSSIBLE CITIZENSHIP   A profound "suspicion by the masses" marks the whole process of European integration. But the construction of Europe as a political entity is unlikely to take place if globalisation is perceived, not as a process of open civilisation in which European peoles can play a major part, but instead as an economic and technological framework to which policies must be adapted.   Arcangelo Leone de Castris LIBERAL CULTURE AND SCHOOL EN MASSE     Dispute   Filippo Gentiloni WEIGHING UP WOITYLA     Historiographic Subversivism   By revising the history of the twentieth century the Right has surpassed all boundaries. Bit by bit, new periods and subjects are included, theories become more radical and methods more primitive. The Left on the other hand, being uncertain of its past an yet wanting to be politically legitimate, has up until now proved to be reticent. It is now the time to act, intransigently but also with a commitment to exploring the issue. Gaetano Arfè HISTORIOGRAPHIC SUBVERSIVISM   Giampasquale Santomassimo ‘REVISIONISM’ AND NOT ONLY   This summary has links to the Italian titles and where possible, with the version in its original language