39  May 2003 Sommario (in italian)


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THE SUSPENDED WAR   italian version
The occupation of Iraq is only the first step in a historic phase in which preventive war serves to affirm world wide control in the hands of a single power. This is an incontrovertible fact. To answer you we have the resources of a great movement which is facing an unresolved question: how to influence this power and its decisions. These are long-term but also pressing deadlines.
Rossana Rossanda
RESTORATION IN THE DS HOUSE   italian version
Separation from the movements, bitter criticism of the Cgil, a turn of the screw for the minorities followed immediately by the associated vote on sending Italian soldiers to Iraq: this is the restoring policy which D'Alema and Fassino have imposed on the Ds, to which the 'Correntone' and Cofferati have offered a very reserved response. If something doesn't change, there are the preliminaries for a new defeat of the left wing.
Robert Fisk
A DAY THAT BEGAN WITH SHELL-FIRE ENDED WITH A ONCE OPPRESSED PEOPLE WALKING LIKE GIANTS   original version italian version
Luigi Ferrajoli
TWO THEORIES ON THE UN   italian version
Maurizio Matteuzzi
WHERE 'LIBERATORS' FLY   italian version
Norman Birnbaun
AN AMERICAN DISSENT   italian version
Joseph A. Buttigieg
FOR THE FLAG AND COUNTRY   original version italian version
Uri Avnery
A ROAD MAP TO NOWHERE , OR MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING   original version italian version
Rosy Bindi
THE CATHOLICS AND THE WAR   italian version
In the last year the democratic Catholic opinion has been more conspicuous than usual, with the encouragement of the Pope, in political and ethical opposition to the preventive war. But the inadequacy of how this development has been represented in the political system is evident. And yet it would be a great resource to give the opposition extra strength and more passionate ideals.
Giuseppe Chiarante
NO BIPARTISAN   italian version
Giancarlo Aresta
PROMISES KEPT   italian version
Giorgio Cremaschi
THE HEART OF DISPUTE   italian version
Mario Santostasi
YOU CAN'T SIT ON THE FENCE   italian version
Riccardo Bellofiore
THE DIRECTORS OF THE CRISIS   italian version
Tariq Ali
THE COLOUR KHAKI   original version italian version
Musharraf's Pakistan has been the spring-board for Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Tariq Ali explains what this country is: 55 years of independence of which 29 were of military dictatorship, an army which sponges off the economy which depends on the production of cocain, a bitterly unequal society and ambushed integrality. This is the 'khaki democracy' which the West exported to Pakistan.

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