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A thousand participants at the Critical Left [ 1 ] assembly in Rome on the 14th and 15 April decided on a “social opposition pact” to the Prodi ’social-liberal’ government. The key points, were No to War, No to Bush in Rome, participation in Gay Pride and support for the struggle against environmental devastation. On the question of the reorganisation of the left it affirmed “it is time to work for a new political subject” between Montezemolo’s Democratic Party and a projected new social liberal ’Left’ Party in which the Communist Refoundation (PRC) leadership is willing to participate. The meeting also called upon Franco Turigliatto to withdraw his Senate resignation [ 2 ]. Birth of the left opposition to Prodi
“If the future of the left is a Democratic Party which Montezemolo supports and a Mitterandist socialist refondation, we decidedly think that a new political subject is needed”. This is what Salvatore Cannavò and Franco Turigliatto, respectively Communist Refoundation (PRC) MP and Senator, both supporters of Critical Left (Sinistra Critica) had to say, opening and closing the meeting organised by their association.
Speaking to a thousand activists, the two leftwing parliamentarians emphasised the incapacity of the current restructuration underway on the left to provide a voice to bodies that come out of the social movements. “Far from it, more and more the forces of