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Just a question

Claudio | 19.04.2002 17:58

Question from Italy

Dear friends,
my name is Claudio and I live in Rome. I have a question for you. I'm really worried about the political sovereignty in my country and I would like to know how European people perceive the messages of Italian Government.
Thank you for your answers.
Claudio

Claudio

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Italy is a democracy under threat

19.04.2002 19:50

It seems to me that when you have a PM who controls almost all of the media and advertising, declares a state of emergancy over boat refugees, confronts mass trades union movements with disdain, sees the return of political assassination, plans to take over Germany's media, has a police force that shoots a demonstrator dead and no-one is properly held accountable and is organising a security policy through Europol that suggests the anti-capitalist movement is in some way"pre-terrorist" then you have a problem...

Troubling version of democracy

19.04.2002 20:06

My biggest concern is that the Italian population fell for the oldest con trick around. Voting for the guy who runs the opinion pieces. My greatest dissapointment is that Italians were so increadibly short sighted as to vote for this man. He has the classic makings of a one man Junta - money and influence. And more of both than most politicians would dream of.

Good luck though...

Revo
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Banana republic of Itali

20.04.2002 00:56

when the president of a republic owns as well 80% of newspapers, radios and tv stations and, at the same time, holds the foreign affairs ministerial post, then it seems irrelevant to speak about democracy. Itali looks like a banana republic. But the the Italian people are protesting on the streets and that gives them credibility, a credibility that the Italian goverment has lost.

uno

oh well

20.04.2002 09:14

what about tony blair, are you saying he aint as bad, are you saying polotics in the uk are cleaner than those in italy?
i dont think they are, i dont think the italians where short sighted, where we when we voted for blair?
they will con us any way possable, dont vote, take action!
its increasingly becoming us, and them.
what are we ALL going to do about it?
forget about borders, we are all in this together. surely.

Vote!!!!

21.04.2002 12:44

What do you mean don't vote? That way we have no way of changing the political system. Vote but don't vote the big parties. Vote Socialist Alliance, vote CPB, even vote Green if that's your only option. Otherwise we will be faced with an even stronger Labour monopoly, or even worse the tories! And don't beleive the Lib Dem hype. They're just as bad as Labour, and faced with power will go the same way.

Benny S

DON'T VOTE!!

21.04.2002 13:33

Don't vote for any political party. It only lends legitimacy to the political process.

If you've got something to say then get out on to the streets to say it.

Direct action against all politics, leaders, and authority is the only way to oppose capital and the state!

Don't vote

21.04.2002 14:51

All voting does is push issues into a cul-de-sac and give people the illusion they can change matters by imagining some individual or political party can do a better job that they can themselves. Don't believe any party once in power will have any urgency to change society. They won't. Voting for personalities most of us know little or nothing about except their desire for power, is a counter revolutionary act.
I'm just waiting for the Socialist Alliance to re-print The British Road To Socialism. Let's face it, they've followed the old C.P. in other ways.

Inter-National-Ist

Look what's happenig in France.

22.04.2002 13:31

In France they didn't vote, because the candidates were too similar. And now they've got a right winger in with a chance. Do we want another Berlusconi? I'm all for direct action, but there's not just one way to change things. Get on the streets and tell the bastards what you think, but if we get the tories or BNP in power they're gonna pay even less attention to us than Labour do. Protest, but vote as well. Because the right wingers do.

Benny S

agree, except

22.04.2002 15:40

If the BNP get in they won't ignore us, they'll have us rounded up and shot.

internationalist
Homepage: http://www.anl.org.uk

So, you're different then?

22.04.2002 22:00

Whereas authoritarian socialists, on the other hand, wouldn't have anyone shot. Kronstadt, the May Days, Budapest '56, Prague '68 were all figments of our imagination I suppose? Come off it. You're every bit as bad as the BNP and I'd just as soon shoot you as them if the opportunity ever presented itself.