Members from forty-two countries meet at Congress

ABSTRACT: The XXXVI Congress of the Radical Party (First Session) was held in Rome from 30 April to 3 May.

A self-financing party

ABSTRACT: A nonviolent, self-financing, direct-membership party. This is the objective we aim to achieve. We know, however, that we lack the resources. We do not have sufficient members or financial support for our battles. The amount available at present is laughable - 650,000 dollars. Enough to send out this issue of the newspaper and conclude our activities. How can we allow this "venture" to continue?
(THE PARTY new - N. 7 - May 1992)

Will this be the last issue?

ABSTRACT: To present, "at the same time on the same days", in as many parliaments as possible, laws to govern the terrible problems of the present-day world - with the nonviolent support of direct action by parliamentarians and citizens: this is our political objective.
The newspaper you have received, which has now reached its seventh issue, is the means we have chosen to pursue this objective.
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Nonviolent resistance against Europe's shame

ABSTRACT: Here is an account of the action taken over the last few months via nonviolent direct action, to persuade the international community to intervene in the dramatic situation in ex-Yugoslavia.
Irresponsibility, weakness, cowardice, conflicting interests, and the lack of adequate institutions have all contributed to the current tragedy.
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The birth of the V International?

ABSTRACT: In some ways, yes. But if this is so, then we would become part of the history of the glorious, though in many ways terrible, history of the Communist Internationals or of socialdemocratic burocratization.
However, our origins also lie inevitably in the great enlightened and liberal ideals. Without forgetting that the new Humanism is nonviolent and ecologist.
But in the meantime money has almost run out for the transnational transparty which is about to be born, for the Radical Party.

A lay, democratic Party

ABSTRACT: To join the Radical Party all you have to do is pay the annual subscription. No one is vetted. No one is expelled. You can be a Radical even if you belong to another Party. It is an instrument for realizing projects and upholding ideals, and cannot be likened to a church. It is also a party that could disband: if there aren't enough members and funds to keep it going.
(THE PARTY new - n. 6 - march 1992)

New members

ABSTRACT: These are some of the new members of the transnational cross-party from Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, the US and the Ukraine:
(THE PARTY new - n. 6 - march 1992)


Pavel Panfilov, elected for the second time as deputy of the people of the Republic of Estonia, President of the "Collaboration and Equal Rights" division, former official of the Komosomol and the former Communist Party:

The nonviolent Congress

(THE PARTY new - n. 6 - march 1992)

The Radical Party is holding a Congress in Rome from 29 April to 3 May. It will be a Congress open to democrats, parliamentarians and ordinary citizens who want to campaign for the abolition of the death penalty before the year 2000; who want to build a United States of Europe; who favour an antiprohibitionist drugs policy; who want to uphold the right to language and the right of peoples throughout the world to communicate; who want to defeat nationalism and militarism.

The Case of Somalia

ABSTRACT: Mohamed Aden Sheikh, a Somali surgeon who studied and specialized in Italy, was one of the most important political leaders in Somalia during the nineteen seventies, when the regime of Siad Barre attempted a radical transformation of the pastoral society in the name of "scientific socialism".

The Chinese Prison Camp

ABSTRACT: Two and a half years ago, the democratic movement and the demonstrations of Tienanmen Square were tragically crushed. Tens of thousand of political prisoners still languish in Chinese jails, arrested and sentenced for the simple exercise of their fundamental rights. Arbitrary arrests, unfair trials, disproportionate sentences and tough prison conditions make China in effect one huge prison.