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October 8, 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...
October 8, 2007
Red: Different Shades
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 19, 2006) Palmiro Togliatti’s dramatic switch in Salerno (our focus in several recent columns)—transforming an...
October 8, 2007
The Conflict over the Magistrates: Stand Back from the Blaze
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 12, 2006) The gutter salvos of the principals in the election campaign, with accompanying modeling of silly T-shirts,...
October 8, 2007
How to Flip a Switch
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 5 2006) Last week, we reviewed the possible reasons for the 1944 Salerno Switch (in which Palmiro Togliatti, having made...
October 8, 2007
The Moscow Factor
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 26, 2006) We have been focusing on what we have dubbed the Salerno Switch, Palmiro Togliatti’s peremptory arrival...
October 8, 2007
The Guns in the Hills
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 19, 2006) Last week we watched Palmiro Togliatti’s peremptory shanghaiing of the 1944 gathering of the Communist...
October 8, 2007
The Salerno Switch
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 12, 2006) On the afternoon of March 27, 1944, the recognized leader of Italian Communism, Palmiro Togliatti, probably...
October 8, 2007
Italy’s Own Berlin Wall
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February, 5 2006) Finally pulling ourselves away from George Bush’s Awful Autumn and Silvio Berlusconi’s Wobbly Winter, we...
October 8, 2007
Phony Equalities
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on January 29, 2006) A column devoted to understanding the politics of many another Western country would not have to treat...
October 8, 2007
Too Much Motherhood
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on January 22, 2006) Throughout Western history, tyrants have used judges and courts to enforce their tyrannies. Even many of the...
