13  January 2001 Sommario (in italian)


Daniel Singer
EUROPE: IS THERE A FOURTH WAY?   italian version
Giuseppe Chiarante
POST-ELECTION SCENARIO   italian version
A few new reasons regarding if and how to vote are offered by the elections. The true nature and intentions of the Right have emerged more clearly and preventing them from winning - or winning hands down, is a duty. Nor must it be forgotten that the 'liste civetta' fraud constitutes a motive for, at least in the proportional seats, lending a helping hand to those swindled instead of the swindlers.

The Left and the Vote
More on how the Left must face the general election in order to not come out of it with broken bones. Salvi and Greco insist on a convergence on the Left but would want to link it to some important policies. Realacci and Boccia point out that the election is not everything, nevertheless they add that it is necessary for stopping a dangerous and imminent arrival of the Right.
Cesare Salvi   italian version
Dino Greco   italian version
Maria Luisa Boccia   italian version
Ermete Realacci   italian version

Loris Campetti
AN APPARENT DEATH   italian version
Lucio Magri
NEW DEMOCRACY   italian version
Hermann Scheer
THE HAGUE, AN ENLIGHTENING FAILURE   italian version
Isidoro D. Mortellaro
EUROPE À LA CARTE   italian version
Augusto Graziani
THE EURO AND THE DOLLAR, SIGNS OF CONFLICT   italian version
The construction of Europe has reached a critical point: the Euro has gone down 30%; a mass break-away from the integration process has been taking place since the Danish referendum; and institutional reform hit a stumbling block at Nice. Graziani and Mortellaro analyse this deadlock on different levels and both arrive at the same conclusion: Europe will either assert its independence from the US or it will not come into being.
Giampaolo Calchi Novati
THE MIDDLE EAST. ITALY FALLS INTO LINE   italian version
Marina Rossanda
LETTERS FROM THE TERRITORIES   italian version
Joseph Halevi
FOUNDING VIOLENCE   italian version
Predrag Matvejevic
VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA   italian version
Vezio De Lucia
THE EXCEPTION AS THE RULE   italian version
Alessandro Portelli
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ON TRIAL   italian version
Luigi Cavallaro
THE ECONOMICS OF OUR ERA   italian version
Samir Amin
CHINA, WEITHING UP THE BIG REFORM/1   italian version
The Egyptian economist analyses the successes and crisis of the Maoist experience, its intentions, its mechanisms and the transformation of the Deng reform for which the end point is not defined at the beginning. But it seems to be clear that this is something different from the capitalism of the "Asian tigers" and what is more, different from the feverish and dramatic events of Russian post-Communism.
Pietro Ingrao
'L'Unità' DOSSIER. SHORT DIALOGUE ON 1956   italian version
In an unusual but effective form of dialogue, a protagonist relives and assesses the facts, general feelings and the choices of the Italian Communist Party brought about by the 20th Soviet Communist Party congress and the Hungarian crisis. A period in which a lot depended on the events that followed regarding that party and that country. It was at that point that a process of autonomy began in the USSR, a process that neverthless evolved slowly and tentatively.
Francesco Lescai
MORE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY   italian version

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