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THE LEFT WING AND BERLUSCONI'S DIFFICULTIES
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ITALY'S PLAGUES
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Berlusconi's government is in difficulty; but it is continuing its destructive initiative of the Italian democracy. With the new regional statutes - aided by the middle left wing - the governors become today's princes, sovereigns of the Assemblies. Fertility treatment confirms the State supremacy over maternity. The ‘Gasparri law’ would like to bring power and resources to the leader. And it opens a question on the limits of an idea of pluralism, guaranteed by the ownership of the media.
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Maria Luisa Boccia
FERTILITY TREATMENT: STATE CONTROL OF MATERNITY
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Claudio De Fiores
REGIONS: PRESIDENTIAL LABORATORY
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Luigi Ferrajoli
INFORMATION: LIBERTY AND PROPERTY
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EUROPE IN THE BALANCE
Two angles, one crisis: Ferrera describes the Brussels stalemate, underlining the geopolitics - Bush's victory on the formation of a comparable global actor - and the unamended institutional contradiction between Treaty and Constitution.
Acocella, Brancaccio and Graziani, with Galapagos analyse the crisis of the parameters of Maastricht, trying to indicate a way out with a social and productive `left wing' model, not pandering to monetarist dogma.
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Nicola Acocella, Emiliano Brancaccio, Augusto Graziani and Galapagos
FORUM: LEAVE MAASTRICHT BY THE LEFT
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Gianni Ferrara
EUROCONSTITUTION: REASONS FOR A WRECK
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NEWS FROM THE EMPIRE
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The great game of the new world order is being played between Washington and Baghdad. Never like today has the world been the theatre, but there is only one protagonist and, despite the `hidden coffins' which Iraq returns to the metropolis, the script remains the same: the pre-emptive war. This is Mortellaro's analysis. Taibbi and Borosage talk about the domestic scene: people and events in the electoral campaign in the USA. Polling we will not take part in but which will effect us.
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Isidoro D. Mortellaro
THE UN AND THE AMERICAN WAR
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The American Elections
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Matt Taibbi
THE TRUE COLOURS OF WESLEY CLARK
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Robert Borosage
THE ERRORS OF THE DEMOCRATS
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Rossana Rossanda
MARCO REVELLI'S LAST BOOK
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Riccardo Bellofiore
THE SEVENTY YEARS OF AUGUSTO GRAZIANI
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Susan Watkins
GAGING NEW LABOUR New Left Review
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The first organic assessment of Blair's `reign', a model to which many European left wing parties tend. A beaurocratic reconstruction of the party, domestication of the unions, privatisation versus Welfare, an iron partnership with the USA of Clinton and Bush under the banner of war, boycotting the integration of Europe: Blair is the laboratory of neo-liberalism interpreted by the `reformists' of the `third way'. Is this a matter also to be pondered upon here?
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Aldo Tortorella
THE HISTORY OF THE PCI: BERLINGUER ONE AND TWO
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