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October 10, 2007
The Colossus of Milan
(This article was first published in US Italia weekly on May 28, 2006) We suggested last week that the true derailing of the Historic Compromise was not the cruel destruction of....
October 10, 2007
Derailed!
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on May 21, 2006) We have seen that the 1970s effort at make-over by the post-Togliatti leadership at Communist Party headquarters...
October 10, 2007
Sources of Pride
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on May 14, 2006) Chance seated me at lunch last week next to a correspondent for the British weekly that, five years ago, had...
October 10, 2007
The Long Red Trek
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on May 7, 2006) The slogging of thousands of Communists across the mountains of interior China, however remarkable politically...
October 10, 2007
The Comrade Goes to Church
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 30, 2006) If the results of this month’s election indicate any shift away from the politics of personality back to an....
October 10, 2007
Uncommon Common Ground
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 23, 2006) Not being newsworthy enough for the front page, nor sufficiently cultured to qualify for a terza pagina, this....
October 10, 2007
My Friend the Enemy
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 16, 2006) We leave comments from the arena of last Sunday’s bloody joust to the sages-of-the-immediate on Page One,...
October 10, 2007
The Longest Bridge
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 9, 2006) Having explored some varieties of Communist experience in Italy, up through the moment when the hammer and...
October 10, 2007
A Man and His Chamber
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 2, 2006) We have been tracing the path of Italian Communism from anti-Fascism (clandestine and open) through the Salerno...
October 10, 2007
The Crossroads Communist
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 26, 2006) Since our goal here is to understand today’s politics, why have we spent several columns raking through the....
