Enrico Berlinguer

• Putin, poison, and murder: the recent murder-by-poison of Russian KGB/FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko is a potent warning about the dangers of our new security 'partnership' with Putin's Russia.

... leaders like George Marchais, Enrico Berlinguer, and Santiago Carillo publicly criticiz...

• The New American
• January 22, 2007

• Corridors of silence.

Politics in Rome in the early 1980s was dominated by four active groups, namely, the Democrazia Cristiana, the Partito Comunista Italiano, the Italian Socialist Party and the Vatican. In the mid-1990s, however, the political transformation that is gripping Italy is evident in the inactivity of these power centers, except for the Vatican and the former Communists, the Democratico della Sinistra. Contemporary political reality in Italy is an offshoot of the collapse of the old political system due to lack of US support for mainstream parties and lack of dedicated political leaders.

...In the late 1970s Enrico Berlinguer tried to change that by pronouncing his...

• The National Interest
• Nbr. 1996, March 1996

• Socialism reconsidered - yet again.

Socialism, as it was expounded by its ardent advocates in the 19th century, sought to transform Western society through a new set of democratized institutions based on social solidarity. However, socialism has not been successful in meeting this goal, with the collapse of the USSR only emphasizing the weakness of the socialist position. In the face of capitalism's strengths, socialists should rethink their positions on issues of pressing concern to make them more relevant to the demands of the times.

...And we ought not to forget Enrico Berlinguer's declaration, at the height of his pow...

• World Policy Journal
• Vol. 13 Nbr. 3, September 1996