No more Green in the Italian political landscape

Giovanni Valentini reflects on the disappearance of the radical left after the Italian legislative elections, and more specifically to that of the Green Party, which no longer has a single elected representative. "The political parabola of the Italian Greens lasted 20 years. It started in 1987 when they campaigned for the first time at the national level and won their first seat in Parliament and ended with the 'tsunami' of the last elections... . Victims of the electoral stampede, but also of their own errors in trying to avoid extinction, the Greens took refuge under the Rainbow banner [an environmental-Marxist alliance] which, in turn, sought to survive with the support of the 'reds', their former rivals and historical defenders of workers, employment, factories and thus, pollution... . The Greens can and must start again on a new foundation, constructing an 'environmental pact', a transversal alliance, capable of confronting the new majority."

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