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The Italian women's movement is currently split over a proposed law on sexual violence initiated by its current leaders. Older feminist scholars, intellectuals, & activists who began their involvement in women's issues during the 1970s are opposed to the law & are actively campaigning against it. Criticism of the current rape law -- formulated in the 1930s -- centers around the mistreatment of the victim; ie, she ends up on trial, rather than her attacker. The proposed legislation designates all types of sexual assaults as rape & eliminates distinctions between them. Debate focuses on the issue of mandatory prosecution, with some arguing that women should decide for themselves whether to prosecute. Theoretical differences reflected in the historical development of the Italian feminist movement are described to elucidate this debate. 9 References. S. G. Yates

Ethiopia has in fact experienced a thorough‐going revolution —a fact often ignored or denied by the Left internationally, presumably because it was not made by an organised mass movement and because of the fact of military rule. It is indeed a 'revolution' in that it represents an irreversible change from the absolutist state; it has involved a fundamental social transformation, chiefly with respect to the rural relations of production, and has thereby created a vastly expanded internal market of petty producers. These revolutionary outcomes are not to be denied because of the nature of the regime, which is indeed repressive, and incapable of solving the two basic issues now facing the revolution: the nationalities issue and political democracy. But it must be recognised that the regime and form of the state are themselves results of the revolutionary upheavals but also the inheritor of the ideas and policies of the Ethiopian Left. There is an urgent need now for a mature, reconstituted Left in Ethiopia but such a reconstitution will require that the various elements on the Left all take a long, critical look at their own history.