N°  23  December 2001 Lucio Magri HOLLOW REFORMISM   The DS congress did not manage to reach any sort of turning point. It instead accentuated the same strategies and policies that led to defeat at the polls and a general organisational decline. What is the abyss that is breaking open in the Left? Can it be filled? Maybe it can, if the current events taking place in society and the world are used as a springboard. These events dwell under the shadow of crisis and menacing powers, and yet all the same there is still a widespread desire for change. Aldo Tortorella SPEECH AT THE DS CONGRESS     ENDURING WAR In the words of Fouchet, this is worse than a crime, it is a mistake. In fact, promoting that radical fundamentalism which subsequently turned into terrorism, not having predicted the threat enabling politics to resolve it and using war as an answer to the problem can be considered a series of mistakes. All of this provides a new breeding ground for terrorism and creates a war in which everyone loses. Tariq Ali ENDURING WAR   Luigi Ferrajoli WHERE THE TALIBAN ARE FROM   Giuseppe Chiarante TERRORISM AND WAR AN ALTERNATIVE TO LAW   Rossana Rossanda THE LEFT AND THE WAR RECURRING DIVISION     Giorgio Cremaschi CGIL. A CHANGE OF LINE, ACTION OR NOTHING?   Gabriele Polo THE WAGES OF FEAR. A BOOK BY GALLINO   Giuseppe Ugo Rescigno AFTER THE ‘YES’ TO FEDERALISM. HOW TO REDUCE THE DAMAGE   Giuliano Pisapia THE HOUSE OF ILLEGALITIES   Rogatory letters paralysed to accommodate big-shot defendents who make changes to the law with the help of their lawyers, the decriminalisation of false accounting, terrorism putting speeded-up procedures in the hands of the police, further restrictions on immigration laws and daily attacks on the magistracy. We have finally got a taste of hands on democracy Berlusconi-style. Maurizio Zenezini UNIVERSITY AND THE JOB MARKET   Vito A. Copertino UNIVERSITY. A NEED FOR REFORM   Vincenzo Pinto THE ZIONIST PARADIGM IN ISRAELIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY   Mario Tiberi GLOBALISATION OR IMPERIALISM?   Luigi Cavallaro NEW ECONOMY AND THE MAFIA MODEL   Regardless of its activities, the Mafia model is characterised by control over the territory, a monopoly on violence, and power over arbitration and sanctions which is not exercised through laws and political institutions, but instead through private conventions and deals. This type of model becomes rife when the economy becomes increasingly globalised yet public institutions and political powers are left behind. This summary has links to the Italian titles and where possible, with the version in its original language