‘Peace comes first, not precarious however stable and lasting as a result of it's linked to justice’ – Muricas News

Ardour, rigour, propensity to be forward of the occasions and to beat fences: what marked Enrico Berlinguer’s motion in Italian politics emerges at this time with even larger drive within the worldwide area. That is what, for instance, the speeches, articles and interviews collected by Alexander Höbel reveal, ranging from 1972, when Berlinguer took over the management of the PCI. The amount “Enrico Berlinguer Peace comes first. Writings and speeches on worldwide politics (1972-1984)”, edited by Höbel and printed by Donzelli, shall be offered tomorrow in Rome.

Along with the coordinator, Achille Occhetto and Andrea Riccardi will intervene for the event, whereas the administration is entrusted to the journalist Mirella Serri. The appointment is on the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, at 5 pm, within the Sala del Tempio di Vibia Sabina and Adriano in Piazza di Pietra. The assembly shall be broadcast stay on the Gramsci Basis Fb web page.

These are the years of the Euromissiles, of the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, of the nuclear escalation, of the battle in Lebanon; however the secretary’s gaze is aware of the best way to go even additional and in depth. For the primary time in historical past, he realizes, the world is carefully interconnected and its coronary heart is now not the West: it's essential to cooperate with the brand new rising realities, additionally for the excellent of the industrialized nations, which solely on this manner shall be ready get out of the disaster. (continued)

Berlinguer’s ‘third manner’ is peace above all

A capability for imaginative and prescient that includes the EEC and the entire of Europe (“with out a contribution to the issues of the East – Berlinguer said- there shall be no safety and growth”) and contains Italy, for which the “austerity” invoked right here it turns into a world instrument of effectivity and justice, to beat a system characterised by essentially the most unbridled individualism, by the “most insane consumerism”.

The PCI itself, whose historical past it proudly claimed beneath the banner of democracy and freedom in a rare speech delivered in Moscow in 1976 on the CPSU congress, should undertake a “third manner” that goes past the social democratic mannequin and “actual socialism”, accepting the anti-capitalist thrusts additionally coming from Christian-inspired actions, opening as much as environmentalist calls for, to feminist battles.

Peace is the purpose on which Berlinguer is consistently targeted; a purpose linked to multipolarity and cooperation, which in his phrases turns into a thorny and stinging theme, a spur that urges motion, which imposes an uncompromising and all-out battle towards inequalities, not simply financial ones. As a result of “a peace that isn't precarious, however stable, lasting, to be such, can solely be based on justice”. Prophetic phrases.