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New Country * ' * R 4 Abbonati a a Vvenimenti new country * ' * r 4 Abbonati a A vvenimenti edito da: Libera Informazione Editrice S.p.A, Roma Abbonamento annuale Lire italiane 335.000 Per abbonarsi rivolgersi alla Filef 15 Lowe Street Adelaide SA 5000 tei: 08/ 82118842 Copertina L'ultima It seems that the federal govern­ Un istante del concetto di chiusura del ment has finally learnt that unem­ Maggio Musicale Fiorentino nella P iam ployment is a high priority with della Signorìa di Firenze the public. So, is it doing some­ thing about it? Yes! It is spinning the line that a GST, industrial re­ form and lower wages will create jobs. editoriale Political representation Rapresentazione politica A feature of contemporary politics is the Una caratteristica della politica contemporanea similarities of parties. It is not uncommon, è la somiglianza tra partiti. Non è strano, nelle particularly in "democracies" that favour two "democrazie" che favoriscono il bipartitismo party systems such as the USA, Australia and come negli USA, in Australia e il Regno Unito, the UK, for opposing parties to adopt rival che i partiti oppositori adottino le politiche dei policies to gain a polling advantage. rivali. Per esempio, H britannico Tony Blair For example, Britain's Tony Blair promises to promette di continuare con la politica continue with the conservatives' economic economica dei conservatori e il Residente policies and Democratic President Bill Clinton degliUSA, il democratico Bill Clinton, intende attuare le riforme sul welfare dei Repubblicani. aims to steal the Republicans' welfare reforms. L'Australia ha visto queste forme di bi- Australia has seen this form o f bi-party ap­ partismo particolarmente nelle scelte proach in economic matters which helped the economiche che hanno aiutato il Partito Labor Party push many of its reforms through Laburista a fare passare in parlamento le sue parliament even though it always had a minor­ proposte nonostante sia in minoranza nel ity in the Senate. Senato. In Italy a similar convergence is beginning to In Italia si sta verificando la stessa show in the two political poles, the centre-left convergenza politica in due poli politici, il government and the centre-right opposition. governo di centro -sinistra e l'opposizione di Faithful party followers can be excused for centro-destra. feeling a little disoriented or betrayed at the I seguaci dei vari partiti si sentono lack of constancy with policies and comprensibilmente un pò disorientati o traditi principles. dalla mancanza di coerenza politica e di What is strange is that this narrowing of principi La stranezza è che la convergenza interests between major parties happens at a accade in un contesto di crescente divisione tra time when the gap between those in work and quelli che lavorano e no, e tra poveri e ricchi. out of work and rich and poor is increasing. Ciò indica chiaramente che gli interessi delle It means that someone's interests are not being persone comuni non sono politicamente politically represented. rappresentati sommano Italia Australia Internazionale Welfare reforms hot up p2 Towards a republic p.4 In libertà 114 p.26 Tragedia Ustica p3 Orfanelli cavi p4 Vertice terra p31 Comites e ili CGIE p6 Diossina sulle Olimpiadi p30 Dal welfare al workfare p33 Tra le fonti d'informazione usate sono le Ori//onlani supplomciilo di 8 agenzie di stampa ADNKRONOS, ANSA, AGI, ASCA, Emigrazione Notizie, AISE, Programma SBS p.36 pagine d'anc c cultura p.l5 FullPress, GRTV, INFORM. Nuovo Paese luglio 1997 1 Italia / polìtica Bossi on trial in Welfare reform hots upK LeaderLeader of of the the ^ Northern League, Umberto Bossi, went on trial on charges of incite­ ment to violence recently. Bossi did not attend the start of the trial in Bergamo where he was alleged to have The Italian government asked party members to take not of “who voted for die National Alliance. At the right recently began talks with moment, if it’s necessary, the League will union leaders was not guaranteed. go from house to house and take them.” At the trial’s opening, Gianfranco Fini, and employers on welfare “We would have preferred the reform to be preceded by the head of the far-right National Alliance (AN) party and other AN leaders reform. Labour Minister Tmano definition of a common position of the ñled a civil suit for damages. Bossi has Treu said the first meeting, between the (ruling) majority on such a also been indicted on charges of insulting centre-left government and 31 groups decisive issue for the country,” President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro by compar­ including employers’ body Bertinotti said. ing the head of state to Rasputin, the Confindustria, the three main union “That didn’t happen. The government shadowy monk who wielded influence over confederations and trade bodies, would chose otherwise and so the the Russian Tsarina before the 1917 be largely given over to setting the whole majority doesn’t have to be revolution. Bossi, who wants independence agenda. “We’ll have a preliminary committed by its positions,” he for Italy’s rich north, has already been overview, work out a timetable and said. “In any case. Refoundation will sentenced to eight months in another court case involving Ulegal party financing. discuss working methods. There will push for a good reform of the be plenty to do,” he said. welfare state with a new policy for jobs Italy is under pressure to reform its and no cuts in social spending Negri in jail after social or pensions.” 14 year exile spending — and to shake up its The government has already an­ Toni Negri, a symbol for Italian radicals pensions system — to prove that nounced that the budget will contain and students in the turbulent 1970s who public finances will be kept under about 25 trillion lire of deficit-cutting was charged with inciting urban guerrilla control in the lead up to the 1999 measures, but has not yet gone violence, has been jailed after voluntarily launch of the single European currency. into detail of where the savings will be returning home from a 14-year exile in The Government has already pushed made. France.“Here I am in this paradise,” Negri through close to 100 trillion lire ($59 Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio told Italian senator Athos De Luca who visited him in Rome’s high-security billion) of cuts and savings since he has said that about 10 trillion Rebibbia prison. took office in May 1996. lire of the planned 25 trillion lire of “I’m smiling because jail is hard but also But, the thorny question of streamlin­ measures in next year’s budget exile, after 14 years, had ing the welfare should come from welfare state become hard. I am happy to see Italy’s state is likely to pit the centre-left savings. skies again,” De Luca quoted Negri as coalition against unions and a key ally, Confindustria wanted the negotiations saying. Negri was first arrested in 1979 in the Communist Refoundation party. to include a review of Italy’s last stab the northern city of Padua, where he was a Refoundation leader Fausto Bertinotti at reforming pensions — a partial university professor teaching political warned the government that its support reform carried out in 1995. science. He became a symbol for Italian radicals and students in the turbulent 1970s. Festa in piazza per vittoria sinistre in Francia Il responsabile Esteri del Partito comunista francese Francis Wurtz (s) e il presidente del Partito della Rifondazione comunista Armando Cossutta durante la manifestazione “Vive la gauche”, organizzata davanti all’ ambasciata di Francia in piazza Farnese a Roma per festeggiare la vittoria delle sinistre nel Paese transalpino. 2 Nuovo Paese luglio 1997 ìtalia / politica Quando 17 anni orsono, per cause imprecisate, un DC-9 Ustica: chi Favrebbe mai deU’Itavia con 81 persone a bordo si inabisso’ nel mare detto!? di Ustica, la mia prima di Danilo Sidari personale riflessione fu’ che la causa dell’incidente era stata un attentato All’alba degli anni ottanta, dopo che il nessuno conosce bene la situazione e terroristico. L’Italia usciva in fenomeno delle Brigate Rosse aveva chi ne e’ coinvolto direttamente. Si quegli anni, da una lunga stagione di finito per avvalorare, ahimè’, la teoria può’ senz’altro affermare che da attentati a banche, treni e piazze che degli opposti estremismi e per inasprire qualche anno ormai, in Italia, non avevano altro scopo se non quello ancora di piu’ il conflitto sociale in soprattutto dopo i primi rifiuti da parte di creare un clima dì tensione e di corso, era stato per me consequenziale della NATO alle richieste degli terrore. La strategia della tensione inquadrare l’episodio di Ustica come organi inquirenti di mettere a loro (come venne definita), serviva a l’ennesimo, terribile attentato contro disposizione i tracciati radar del 27 generare nell’opinione pubblica la vittime innocenti. Ben presto pero’, giugno ’80, una larga fetta convinzione che solo un “potere forte”, altre ipotesi sulla sciagura vennero dell’opinione pubblica aveva di chiaro stampo conservatore, avrebbe formulate e, se non definitivamente perlomeno preso in considmzìone potuto rimettere a posto l’intricata accertate, esse furone comunque l’ipotesi che lo scenario di una situazione socio-politica della penisola. avvalorate da reticenze, dichiarazioni battaglia aerea tra guns” dì diverse I tempi della suddetta strategia, contradditorie, frammenti di nazionalità’ combattuta quella sera nei coincisero con quelli della forte registrazioni radar cancellati o cieli di Ustica, non fosse cosi’ irreale! ripresa, alla fine degli anni sessanta e documenti sottratti. Inoltre da allora, e Dopo anni dì menzogne, dichiarazioni, durante il decennio successivo, fino ad oggi, le stesse teorie venivano smentite, depistaggi, perizie e dell’attività’ sindacale e della crescita fatte proprie dall’Associazione controperizie, assoluta impotenza o del movimento studentesco di sinistra.
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