Note: I apologize for incomplete translation...I am working on it as time allows...J.Ross. Here is the text:

The movement of the Second Resistance on behalf of the case Silvia Baraldini undertakes the metaphor of the enslavement to the U.S.A imperialism of the group directing Italian politics. It focuses on the responsibilities of the Parliament, of the Government, of the Left and of the movement for the repatriation of our fellow citizen.

In the swing of the pendulum of time that separates today from the end of the last "big war" no case, more than that of Silvia Baraldini, represents in such degree the "global" conditioning-enslavement of the life of the Country to the superior "vital strategic demands" of the U.S.A superpower.

A conditioning-enslavement that has reduced Italy to little more than a modern "protectorate" with so much of stable, mighty and diffused garrisons foreign soldiers, cultural subordination of foreign politics and defense up to the infamous and defamatory acceptance [collaborativa] of the men in power. They have torn to pieces, for decades, the Italian people and destabilized them and disorientated their dynamic natural instinct for a secular push toward a deep and more correct transformation of the national society.

This thrust, powerful and historically legitimate found consecration in the new democratic Constitution, republican, founded on the decisive given contribution, above all, from theworking class through the long struggle against the dictatorship [fascista] and the

partisan resistance and popular [conclusesi] with the general insurrection of the North, April 25 1945.

Silvia Baraldini-, for sixteen years imprisoned in the jails of the States Joined only because she is guilty only of having stayed a revolutionary activist [antimperialista] and, then, have not shown disposed to accept neither shortening of her sentence nor the more desired repatriation to Italy for the price of collaboration with the F.B.I. and to turn informer on old friends.

Silvia is, by now, in the imaginary collective and, above all, in the deep conscience of national public opinion, to symbolize our substantial, humiliating subjugation to the superpower [nordamericana].

And this feeling is by now widespread in sectors of public opinion as evidenced in recent published interviews with Silvia, in the jail of Dambury (Connecticut), from two known papers of both moderate and conservative orientation, " La Stampa" di Torino e "La Nazione" di Firenze, editions of January 5.

Their manfestation after the negative result of the appeal against the decision of the Parole Board provides maximum evidence of the extreme contradictions or, benefit, of the contradictions which it are prevalent the "case," not so much fas concern the personal condition and psychological of the Silvia, but for what concerns the relationships between those interested in the case and the movement of solidarity for Silvia that, in these last ten years, that has grown in Italy.

In the two interviews Silvia appears strongly disappointed by the evident [protrarsi] of the scarce determination with which even the actual Government of center-left he/she/it/you is acting toward Washington for set end to his arrogant, systematic refusal (by now the quarter!) of greet the repeated application officially advance for the concession of the repatriation of ours

fellow citizen according to the international undersigned accords to Strasburgo in the 1984 in theme of possibility of repatriation of the own citizens prisoners in one of the other countries signatories.

To Gabriele Romagnoli, Silvia has said: "No, I have given up. I have no more hope. I wait the expiration of the prison term which means I stay another eight or ten years in prison"; and to the question "when do you think you will be free"?:

"Around the year 2006, and with good behavior maybe the total sentence will be reduced by 2 years."

Silvia is embittered and disappointed also from the though numerous visits [fattele] from characters and personality of the political Italian world: " deputies, journalists, all people of left arrive here and they want me to repent. Why all this desire of repentance"?.

And to Giampaolo Peg she declares: "I am facing eight more years. I won't ask no [sconto_] I to spend these last years in an Italian jail near to my mother. I don't understand what it takes to change the position of the American government, but not even duty deny all what [penso_] To Rome there is the first government of left and I become account perfectly of as main point is for them the relationship and the legitimation of the Americans. I don't want the crisis on the Baraldini case certainly, there are belongingses more [importanti_]." Here, own [quest'ultima] affirmation contains all the human play and political of Silvia, but, also that's why, you/he/she/it stay intolerable the explosiveness I/you/he/she/it of his case am on the piano of the specific, direct responsibility of the managing Italian class today to the power (not so much that to the Government, as and to better reason, that installed, in the his total[rappresentatività], in the Parliament), I/you/he/she/it am on the piano of the likewise thickresponsibility of the composite and disunited movement [creatosi] in Italy about to the cause of the repatriation of Silvia.

In fact, while he/she/it/you is unbearable, idealistic and deviant [opportunisticamente] retain that such repatriation could be reached only on the base of the practice pressure directly on the U.S.A administration. from the movementof opinion and of Italian solidarity, it is likewise [irrealistico] and deceptive [opportunisticamente] think that our political classexecutive- [qualora] is not verified a jump [qualitativamente] in the Country [unitario] of strong, decisive raising of the movement- I/you/he/she/it modify the his weak and ambiguous behavior, [elettoralisticamente proteso] to "save theface" towards the public national opinion, from a part and,from the other, attentive to don't do nothing that can indeed jeopardize the quite servile relationship with the "American master" to which he/she/it/you feels, by now,

subdued [organicamente] and fro m which, under many appearances, he/she/it/you feels guaranteed the own survival.Silvia, on the subject, as he/she/it/you is expressed on "you Nation": "_So that the officehe/she/it/you of the Justice has written a letter to Washington, but he/she/it/you has seemed me aletter of circumstance, not a strong letter. Almost for tell to theAmericans: we have stayed forced to do it for the situation [creatasi]

in the public Italian opinion, but really our intercourses not[cambiano_]" and, in the interview on "you/he/she/it Stamp you," he/she/it/you fixes "seen _Ho theofficial letter sent from the office of the Italian Justice to the Word Board_ Seemed a due action, something that has done because they felt kept, or they perhaps thought are enough write for show that there held.

But, glance from the Americans, he/she/it/you seemed to mean: fairies like you want, between usnothing has changed. I mean, is not us sure the crisis of government for me, in Italia_ There holds to show that a government of left he/she/it/you could go of accord with the [americani_] Hour is to a [bivio]. Or lets lose, I they tell that he/she/it/you has finished, or they choose of take care of with the Americans to a level more [alto_]"

This, therefore, the decisive choice that the Valiant Government and the Parliament presided from the Violante and they from the Left-handed should find the coherent courage of behavior. A choice in front of which, instead, all the class

politics halts trembling like in front of a realimpassable Chinese [muraglia]. The same Braves, in the press conference ofelegant year, he/she/it/you has after all "cordially" confirmed, evidently withouttry any shame: "_il Baraldini case has retained important from theGovernment that will endeavor for resolve it avoiding, however, actions that canappear like an arm of political iron with the American justice"!

Against this [furbesca] and servile doubleness [tatticistica] that always has historically separate the cowardliness of our political classexecutive, today as [bonariamente] represented from the actual Prime Minister,he/she/it/you is insurgent, with prickly irony, Anthony Tabucchi on "The Manifesto" of the 19last December. But, neither the sharp irony of a famous writer, neitherthe sourrest recriminations of the sincere militant that they from years fight forSilvia will remove the impassable [muraglia] of the select [omertosa] offield done from the class to the power in Italy. Because the "Atlantic fidelity"of what Nixon defined "most faithful" between the allied countries of the StatesJoined [val] well the price of her legitimates, human application of a town andexemplary patriot, [qual] is Silvia, of reenter in the own country and notwearing out still for eight-ten years in an American galley, to [migliaia]of kilometers from his earth, from his mother, from his people.

And as, therefore, that while to Silvia, which has not ever stayed possible contest any action of violence, he/she/it/you comes denied the return in country, thishe/she/it/you has stayed and he/she/it/you comes granted from the U.S.A., with him discounted approval of thegovernments from Rome, to all the [boss] of worst crime [mafiosa]italo-American.And as, therefore, that while to Silvia, for his ideal of liberty, he/she/it/you has stayedinflicted the monstrous condemns to [quarantadue] years of imprisonment, [decine] and[decine] of mercenaries Yankee guests of the bases military U.S.A. installed inItaly and guilty of I/you/he/she/it rape, robberies and other hateful crimes have always stayedstolen from [sistematicamente] the Italian law, to the correct reimbursement to thevictims, and quickly redelivered uninjured from our polices to the theyorders for be immediately repatriates without see it do us of aItalian judge, or spend a sol day in an our jail.

But if the knot to loosen is, indeed, one of those "[gordiani]," thena drastic remedy needs, decisive, winning for Silvia and winning,also, for the whole Italian people, whose dignity has stayed too for a long timescorned and outraged [impunemente] also in this circumstance. The solutionradically decisive he/she/it/you is, then, demand or, however, return to set, withI obviate assent of Silvia, the matter of his candidacy to an of thenext electoral expirations: to the Italian Parliament or to the European one. Aattempt that we already did in the 1994, that we repeated in the 1996 and that he/she/it/you failedfor the deplorable insufficient unity of the movement and for the consequenthesitation which the same Silvia was induced also for the objective influenceof all one series of pressures, positions, counsels, manoeuvres that influencedsurely, beyond that in the emotional sphere, in his possibility of[valurare] serenely the situation and accept the proposal candidacy[qualora] has stayed insureds two [tassative] I/you/he/she/it condition: presenting like"independent," but supported [unitariamente] from the Left, and in a collegethat he/she/it/you gives adequate guarantees of success for avoid the otherwise disastrousconsequences, moral and politics, of a possible defeat.

Once more, therefore, you/he/she/it reveal yourself decisive that popular movement of basethat, when he/she/it/you has proven able of reach the necessary level ofunity and determination, he/she/it/you has always carried to the success all the correct causes.For achieve this urgent, essential unity the Movement of the"Second Resistance," that he/she/it/you has set the struggle for the repatriation of Silvia between thehis immediate primary [obbiettivi], he/she/it/you will take to the more soon the initiativesadequate.

The front of the committees of solidarity and for the repatriation of Silvia Baraldinihe/she/it/you must be helped resolve quickly and finally the owninside contradictions for reach and express, to the unison, the strengthnecessary for induce, meanwhile, Parliament and Government to engage a morefirm and dignified attitude toward the United States not so much transferringthe negotiation from a relationship between ministers of the justice to a relationship between

the two governments and, I/you/he/she/it well am understood, in conditions of total parity, but alsorequiring, without ulterior, inadmissible delays, the interventionof the [apposita] errand umpire it scheduled from the article 23 of the accordsof Strasburgo.Silvia, in short, doesn't owe absolutely feel abandoned from his Countryfor have sacrificed, of fact, to the so-called "supreme demands" ofsafeguard to each cost of the "alliance of iron" tax from the StatesJoined to Italy. Because, [semmai], it will be the friendship between the two people toprevail on the "plays" and the [inconfessabili] knew something about the respective classesexecutives.And quite for save the friendship between the two Silvia people he/she/it/you will return, to themore soon, in Italy. The activists of vanguard of our people will knowbehavior until after all the own duty. Between them, in first line, those of the"Movement of the Second Resistance for Italian Republic of the workers."

Angiolo Gracci

National coordinator of the Movement of the Second Resistance