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  Italian Radicals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Italian Radicals (Radicali Italiani) are an Italian political group that describe themselves as "a liberal, liberista and libertarian" political movement.
On November 17, 2005, the Italian Radicals established an alliance with the Italian Democratic Socialists, and formed a new and wider "Secular, Socialist, Liberal, Radical" movement, that should be part of the left-wing coalition L'Unione for the next general election of 2006.
One of the Italian Radicals' former symbols, the Lista Bonino.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Radicals   (817 words)

  
 Italian Radicals (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The original left-wing and nonviolent Italian Radical Party (Partito Radicale) was founded in 1955 by the left wing of Italian Liberal Party and relaunched in the sixties by Marco Pannella.
After the shift in focus from Italian to global politics by the Partito Radicale, a number of radical groups were founded in Italy to keep radical activities running at a national level too.
As it is correctly mentioned in the entry, two major dissenting radical, but not-Transnational-Radical and Pannella-led parties are the Movimento Federativo Radicale (Federal Radical Movement), and the Radicali di Sinistra (Radicals Of The Left).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Radicals_(disambiguation)   (236 words)

  
 Gabaccia and Ottanelli/Italian Workers of the World. Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Italians were the largest group of foreign workers in Argentina, Brazil, and Switzerland and were a third of the immigrant work force in France.
The Italian Socialists she describes were attracted to both the promise of American democracy and the possibility for workers to attain influence within the national state.
The dual focus of Italian antifascism during the interwar period was a struggle against oppression in the country of origin and the country of adoption.
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/gabaccia/intro.html   (6725 words)

  
 NONVIOLENT INITIATIVES IN ANTIDEMOCRATIC STATES ON EASTERN EUROPE
The Radicals continued undisturbed for two days, until a few were arrested, forced to submit to heavy questioning, and finally obliged to read the text of the pamphlet before a television camera.
The Radical Party denounced this behaviour by the Italian government with a grand torchlight procession to the hotel where Jaruzelski was staying, which was joined by thousands of Polish refugees.
Italian French and Belgian Radicals distributed more than 50.000 pamphlets and stickers for Yugoslavia's entry to the EEC and for freedom of expression in Belgrade, Dubrovnik, and Zagreb.
www.radicalparty.org /history/iniziative_nonviolente_est_e.htm   (943 words)

  
 Carlo Tresca Page from the Daily Bleed's Antiauthoritarian / Anarchist Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed: A Gallery of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Tresca entered the mainstream of American radicalism and labor in 1912, when the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) invited him to Lawrence, Massachusetts, to help lead the Italian workers during the campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, who had been falsely accused of murder.
Fearful that opposition from Italians in America would jeopardize his standing with the U.S. government and lending institutions, Mussolini was determined to silence the voices of his transatlantic opponents.
In 1923 the Italian ambassador officially requested that the State Department suppress Il Martello as the source that was "spreading poison among all the Italian workers in this country." Federal authorities complied by prosecuting Tresca for sending "obscene matter" through the mails.
recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/TrescaCarlo.htm   (1565 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Mazzini, Giuseppe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE [Mazzini, Giuseppe], 1805-72, Italian patriot and revolutionist, an outstanding figure of the Risorgimento.
His influence on Italian radicals, as well as on revolutionaries throughout Europe, was tremendous.
His relations with Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Sardinian premier, were strained; although both strove for Italian unification, their ideas were opposite, Cavour relying for help on a foreign power (France), Mazzini believing in revolution and war based on direct popular action.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mazzini.asp   (459 words)

  
 Italian Democratic Socialists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Italian Democratic Socialists (Italian: Socialisti Democratici Italiani), or SDI, is a small social democratic party of moderate-left policies, heir of the old Italian Socialist Party, Italian Democratic Socialist Party and of Italian Socialists, led by Enrico Boselli.
The SDI is no longer part of the Olive Tree coalition, as it decided to found a joint socialist and libertarian list named Rose in the Fist together with the Italian Radicals.
The list will be present in the 2006 general election to be held on April 9 and 10, 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Democratic_Socialists   (213 words)

  
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For the first time the Italian Parliament was divided during a vote on the death penalty: 236 votes were in favour of the motions (all the centre-right groups) and 202 contrary (opposition Members of Parliament).
In the meantime, in the European Parliament, the Radicals are continuing their commitment to unblock funds for research on staminal cells from embryos in excess, while in Italy it is trying to prevent the approval of a law, on Medically Assisted Procreation, which drastically limits reproduction medicine and destroys the hopes of sick people [link].
Brussels, 3 November - The seven Italian Radical Members of the European Parliament, sent a letter of support to their Jamaican colleagues that are evaluating Seven Recommendations issued by the Jamaican Government to reform the status of Ganja within Jamaican Law.
www.radicalparty.org /newtransfax/117_EN.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Superstudio / Design Museum Touring Exhibition : Architectural Group (1966-1978) - Design/Designer Information
Ever since it first surfaced in 1966 at the Superarchitecture exhibition in the Italian town of Pistoia, Superstudio had been among the most vociferous of the radical design groups which were challenging the modernist orthodoxies that had dominated architectural thinking for decades.
The radical work of Superstudio and Archizoom was shown alongside that of their more conventional compatriots such as Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper.
Moreover the group's once radical theories about architecture's environmental impact, the potentially negative consequences of technology and the inability of politics to untangle complex social problems are now considered to be core concerns by self-aware contemporary architects and designers.
www.designmuseum.org /design/superstudio   (1320 words)

  
 Olive Tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olive Tree (Italian: l'Ulivo) is a political denomination strongly related to Third Way policies in Italy and commonly adopted by center-to-left alliances of parties from 1996 to now.
The Olive Tree - together for Italy (Italian: l'Ulivo - insieme per l'Italia) was a coalition of left-wing and centrist political parties in Italy.
In September 13, 2004 the Olive Tree became the Federation of United in the Olive Tree (Italian: Uniti nell'Ulivo) or, more shortly, the FED, consisting of same four parties that campaigned together in the European elections that summer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olive_Tree   (556 words)

  
 Liberalism worldwide - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
These parties sometimes prefer to name themselves radical or progressive liberal and are generally quite positive about the role of the state in the economy, by advocating Keynesianism for example, while continuing to support a market economy.
In Chile, originally the Social Democrat Radical Party (Partido Radical Social-Democráta, member SI) was a left of center liberal party, but nowadays it is a social democratic party.
In Ecuador, the Alfarista Radical Front (Frente Radical Alfarista) and the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriana) are two small remainders of the traditional liberal current.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/i/b/Liberalism_worldwide.html   (5117 words)

  
 Articles - NPSI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Partito Socialista – Nuovo PSI (NPSI) is a small Italian party which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s (see Mani Pulite).
The party´s members are often former followers of Bettino Craxi, whom they often portray as a victim of political persecution, notwithstanding the many convictions he received on corruption charges.
The party leader is Gianni De Michelis, former minister of foreign affairs in a number of Italian governments, and formerly a close ally of Craxi.
www.kimia-sains.com /articles/NPSI   (684 words)

  
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He was arrested in 1862 for his connection to radical organizations and spent seven years at hard labor and thirteen additional years in exile in Siberia, all of which lent him the aura of a martyr.
Russian revolutionary radicalism from Bakunin to the SR Party was the main origination point for world terrorism as well as various strains of anarchism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Italian conditions reminded Bakunin of Russia with its large peasantry, and his views seemed compatible with native revolutionary traditions associated with Mazzini, Garibaldi, and the secret societies.
pup.princeton.edu /chapters/DAB/sent/0691096848.html   (9729 words)

  
 Italy - Political Flags (Part 1)
In the PCI's (Italian Communist Party) symbol there was a national flag mostly hidden by a red sickle-and-hammer flag: I suppose it meant the communist ideology superimposed over the national identity.
As far as I know the flag that was used was the italian tricolor with the emblem in center.Also I have reported the flag with logo on white background and also in light blue backgorund.
The once-mighty Italian Christian Democrats - An Italian tricolori with the crossed shield symbol of the DC, with the word LIBERTAS in white on the horizontal arm of the red cross above the withe shield.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it-poli1.html   (2186 words)

  
 Weekend: Opera and politics
Italian immigrant anarchists Bartolomeo Vanzetti, second from left foreground, and Nicola Sacco, second from right foreground, stand in handcuffs circa 1927.
Two Italian anarchists in Boston were tried for murder, convicted and -- after six years of appeals and protests -- electrocuted.
"It was the political trial of the 20th century," said Nunzio Pernicone, a historian of Italian radicalism who vetted a draft of the libretto at Coppola's request.
www.sptimes.com /News/031501/Weekend/Opera_and_politics.shtml   (1306 words)

  
 The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism — www.greenwood.com
These essays recover a forgotten aspect of the Italian immigrant communities in the US....The introduction, which is a broad interpretive overview of Italian American radicalism by the editors, is alone worth the book's price.
While the radical heritage of Italian immigrants perhaps was never quite as "lost" as the editors claim, these essays will make it difficult to ignore.
Professor of Italian, Florida Atlantic University:....Fills a void in the study of Italian-American history and culture by offering its reader a series of analytical and interpretive essays on radical Italian America.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/C7891.aspx?print=1   (673 words)

  
 Bridges | Safirka (II)
It began with Marco Panella, head of the Italian Radicals, one of the smallest parties in the Italian parliament.
The Radicals were outside the governing coalition; the Christian Democrats and the Socialists ran it.
But clearly the schemers were not going to take into their confidence this ambassador, who had won a reputation for standing up to bad guys when, as consul general in London, he had acted heroically during a terrorist incident.
www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_7/bridges2.html   (2576 words)

  
 Italy - Political Flags (Part 6)
The flag of the Comunisti Italiani (Italian Communists), whose logo is the same one that the old Italian Communist Party used to have, i.e.
This radical leftist group advocated violence in the pursuit of class warfare.
Italian Communists Party, The Daisy, Socialists and Union of Democrats for Europe.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it-poli6.html   (2591 words)

  
 Monthly Review January 2006 Marcella Bencivenni ¦ The Italian-American Radical Experience
Contrary to the belief that the radical leadership came from the northern cities of Italy, The Lost World reveals that the most important figures among the sovversivi (as Italian radicals were collectively called), as well as the largest numbers of their adherents, were children of the south.
The case rapidly won the attention of national and international radicals, labor organizations, and famous intellectuals who became convinced that their conviction was due more to prejudices against their foreign birth and radical beliefs, than to solid evidence of criminal guilt.
A recovery of the lost world of Italian-American radicalism means much more than correcting the distortions and omissions of earlier historiography: it represents a challenge to the dominant neoliberal politics of our times and a vindication of ethnicity against the coercive efforts of American society to strip immigrants of their own identity.
www.monthlyreview.org /0106bencivenni.htm   (2181 words)

  
 Turin guards against terrorism, activists | csmonitor.com
More likely, they say, are attempts by Italian radicals to disrupt the Games in a bid to draw attention to their causes.
The Italian authorities, however, have been among the most active in Europe in combating the threat of militant Islamic terrorism, arresting hundreds of suspects in recent years, expelling scores of them and jailing others.
It will be the Italian police themselves, however, who will keep an eye on local political activists who have already used this year's Games to promote their causes.
www.csmonitor.com /2006/0207/p06s01-woeu.htm   (832 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - Book Review: The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism
Vecoli’s essay provides a broad picture of the forging of Italian American working class radicalism and its early demise in the first half of the 20th century.
Italian radicals, moved by the Russian Revolution, urged "the uprising of the American working class." Left-wing figures such as Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were persecuted for their involvement in workers’ struggles.
Italian American organizations like the Order Sons of Italy in America promoted support for fascist Italy and rejected their previously pro-labor positions.
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/3080/1/158   (638 words)

  
 Новости - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Moscow, April 18, 2002 - The leader of Radicals Marco Pannella holds a total dry hunger-strike since 17.30, Monday, April 15, condemning repeated inability of both chambers of the Italian parliament to carry out the election of two constitutional judges.
The initiative of Pannella and Italian Radicals was supported also by the Russian members of the Transnational Radical Party: Nikolay Khramov (member of the Political Board of the TRP, chairman of the Co-ordinating Committee of Russian Radicals), Anna Zaytseva, Alyona Asayeva, Sergey Vorontsov (members of the Co-ordinating Committee of Russian Radicals), Olga Antonova, Anton Fomin.
For this reason we address to our comrades of the Transnational Radical Party - both in Russia and in other countries - with the appeal to support this initiative and to take part in the Satyagraha launched by the Italian radicals.
www.radikaly.ru /news-318.html   (462 words)

  
 Giuseppe Mazzini
, the Sardinian premier, were strained; although both strove for Italian unification, their ideas were opposite, Cavour relying for help on a foreign power (France), Mazzini believing in revolution and war based on direct popular action.
Visconti-Venosta, Emilio, marchese di - Visconti-Venosta, Emilio, marchese di, 1829–1914, Italian patriot and statesman.
Italian literature: The Napoleonic Era and the Risorgimento - The Napoleonic Era and the Risorgimento The Napoleonic period was both classical and romantic.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0832385.html   (371 words)

  
 ItalianAmericanWriters.com: Contemporary Italian American Writing
When they were arrested and put on trial for murder, Sacco and Vanzetti got support from radical and genuinely democratic people of all nationalities and walks of life.
Italian Americans who were poor, working class, new immigrants, much of the lower middle class, particularly identified with their suffering and stigmatization.
My mother remembers her uncle saying, "Those men were murdered because they were Italian." [The well known poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, wrote her famous poem "Justice Denied in Massachusetts" to commemorate the deaths of the labor organizers.
www.italianamericanwriters.com /vanzetti.html   (633 words)

  
 Many fast, pray as G-8 summit meets
The so-called “all whites,” Italian radicals who dress in white padding and helmets for confrontations with riot police, have vowed to carry their protests inside an off-limits zone around the meeting site.
It is the same group that led rioting near the Vatican on Dec. 16 triggered by the visit of Austrian far-right politician Jörg Haider.
The Italian government, meanwhile, has deployed 1,000 soldiers to join the 18,000-20,000 regular police already assigned to beat back the attempt.
www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/072701/072701l.htm   (414 words)

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