34  December 2002 Sommario (in italian)


Pietro Ingrao
IS ITALY REJECTING THE CONSTITUTION?   italian version
If Italy is against the war, it should all the more be against a pre-emptive war. In fact, the Government and even parts of the Left, are ready to violate such a principle, with people such as D'Alema, indicating his own revisions. So they ought to say it laud and clear and propose a re-working of popular opinion.
 
Lucian Castellina
NEWS FROM FLORENCE   italian version
The Florence Forum aroused the enthusiasm of many and managed to surprise even more for its passion, the extent of the demonstration and its pacific outcome. Other surprises included the broadening of multi-generational political and social forces and the creation of a unifying axis covering a range of issues which include a point blank "no" against the war.
 
Arundhati Roy
COME SEPTEMBER   italian version
Isidoro D. Mortellaro
THE LATEST CHANGE AT NATO   italian version
Luigi Ferrajoli
NOT EVEN THE UN CAN DO IT   italian version
Gianni Ferrara
EUROPE: GISCARD’S PROJECT   italian version
Aldo Tortorella
WORK AS ANOTHER STARTING POINT   italian version
Giuseppe Chiarante
CATHOLICS: DIALOGUE NOT BEGIN IN THE CENTRE   italian version
Giorgio Cremaschi
A CONTRACT AGAINST INSTABILITY   italian version
THE FIAT FILE  
What we are witnessing at FIAT is not only part of the global car crisis, but is also the headlong decline of Italy's last great industrial firm. There is the risk of a general depression over-shadowing society and the economy. However, a political chall enge also lies ahead which will require public intervention to target new technological frontiers and the re-assessment of the model for sustained mobility.
Riccardo Bellofiore
CRISES AND PROSPECTS   italian version
Francesco Garibaldo
TWO CRISES REFLECTED   italian version
 
Samir Amin
CHINA AT A CROSSROADS   italian version
China's ruling class has slowly but surely taken the road to capitalism. However, in the long run, it is a path which offers few promises and which is fraught with obstacles, espcially on an agricultural level. Nevertheless, due to its revolutionary past and its lively social base, there are forces working against this prospect which could manage to change it.

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