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  • MIGRANTS: BERTINOTTI, SHELTERS ARE INHUMAN PLACES
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The publication of the ’diary’ of Fabrizio Gatti in L’Espresso magazine, in which, disguised as a migrant, the reporter spent 8 days in a temporary shelter and underwent a number of outrageous abuses, is further proof of our claims that shelters like the one in Lampedusa should be closed," said Refounded Communists leader Fausto Bertinotti.
    "Earlier this year," he added, "our own MEP Giusto Catania reported the abuses which are perpetrated on a daily basis at the temporary shelter in (…)

  • Pietro Ingrao and Haidi Giuliani : we support Bertinotti’s candidature in the primaries
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Pietro Ingrao and Haidi Giuliani
    Beat Berlusconi! Defeat the centre-right policies which have been wrecking our country for the last four years. Set up an alternative way of governing which will also bring about a real renewal in Italian politics, culture and democracy. These are now the priorities we agree on, despite the diversity of our history and opinions. This is why we are committed to a Union victory in the 2006 elections: an alliance unprecedented in the history of Italy - one (…)

  • Italy : the 16th of october. “Primary election” of the Unione ALSO THE MIGRANTS CAN VOTE
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On invite to partecipate to primary election the 16th of October and vote for FAUSTO BERTINOTTI
    In spring 2006 will take place in Italy general elections; this is an important moment to propose a new government without Berlusconi and the right forces (Lega Nord, Forza Italia, Alleanza Nazionale).
    16th October 2005:there will be “primary ELECTIONS”.
    What are “primary elections”?
    The left parties ( Ds, Margherita, Rifondazione Comunista...) are united in a coalition, the UNIONE. (…)

  • European Constitution Treaty, by Bellaciao
    28 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by the Collective Bellaciao
    To us, who fight with many people involved in politics, trade unions and associations for the refusal of Constitutional treaty by European citizens, a European Constitution has to design the democratic framework for EU institutions functions. It must finalize a proposal process coming from periphery toward center, from peoples toward elected representatives.
    Our adversaries, lead by financial capital and neo-liberal doctrine, try to definitely set the previous (…)

  • An Openly Gay Communist Wins in Southern Italy
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An openly gay candidate of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista wins in southern Italy, in regional elections that resulted in 11 victories for the center-left coalition, which now controls 16 of Italy’s 20 regions.
    Nichi Vendola’s victory decisively refutes the American dogma that militants on the left, choosing radicals, can’t attract votes at the center and lose to the right — the dogma that the Democrats in America and the center-left in Italy promulgate, even though it has been often (…)

  • Italy’s Centre-Left Up By Two Per Cent
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Unione (Union) of centre-left opposition parties is leading in the early stages of Italy’s electoral race, according to a poll by Istituto Piepoli published in La Stampa. 48 per cent of respondents would vote for the alliance.
    Former president of the European Commission Romano Prodi is expected to lead Unione-which includes the Olive Tree United List (Ulivo) and the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC)-into the next parliamentary election, tentatively scheduled for May 2006.
    The (…)

  • Birth in Europe of the Programmatic Area for a " Society Alternative "
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    6th CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION PARTY (PARTITO DELA RIFONDAZIONE COMUNISTA, PRC)_ convened on March 3-6, 2005
    The programmatic area for a " Society Alternative " in Europe, considering our distinctive status of foreign residents, put websites and other forms of medias in network in order to:
    1) make known the real Rifondazione politic, which is too often modified and falsified when reported by medias, but also by some structured groups, who act inside the party and in (…)

  • 6th CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION PARTY : The Alternative of Society
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Firs signatory: Fausto Bertinotti)
    A new political and social cycle
    The sixth national Conference of our party is taking place in really "extraordinary" times: today in front of us is laid the full challenge of opening up a new political and social cycle, both in Italy and in the rest of Europe. Which means defeating not only the Right, but also the right-wing policies; and coming out, from the Left, from both the crisis of neo-liberal policies and the strategic impotence of left-wing (…)

  • Reformist Social Democracy is No Longer on the Agenda
    18 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Last week, Italian communist leader Fausto Bertinotto was elected leader of the new European left party created by 16 communist and socialist parties.
    The following commentary by Bertinoti appeared in The Guardian (UK) August 11, 2003.)
    Reformist social democracy is no longer on the agenda
    By Fausto Bertinotti
    The terrible events in Iraq marked the end of the post-war period - a period marked by the memory of the horrors of the Nazi-fascist war, when the world saw two opposing (…)

  • New European Party Of The Left Founded
    14 January 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Victor Grossman, Berlin
    Eleven leftist and communist parties, meeting in Berlin on January 11th, finally agreed after ten years of discussion and debate to found a party called the European Left.
    The parties agreed on a common program but planned further debate on the statute, which will probably call for a chairperson, an executive committee and a council of party leaders. Eight other parties also attended the meeting did not join but remained as observers, waiting for confirmation (…)