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| | Respecting the historical definition of libertarian, unlike to the [[Libertarian Party]], the Movimento Libertario want bring in Italy the same contents of others libertarians parties and movements in the world but with the agorist practice of [[non-voting]]<ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=10&art=70685 ''Classic liberals at the polls: what to do?''] ''L'Opinione'', by Gustavo Cevolani. Retrieved on April 10, 2008.</ref>, thus not directly participating in political Italian elections with the symbol of the Movimento Libertario <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="statute" />. |
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| Respecting the historical definition of libertarian, unlike to the [[Libertarian Party (United States)]], the Movimento Libertario want bring in Italy the same contents of others libertarians parties and movements in the world but with the agorist practice of [[non-voting]]<ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=10&art=70685 ''Classic liberals at the polls: what to do?''] ''L'Opinione'', by Gustavo Cevolani. Retrieved on April 10, 2008.</ref>, thus not directly participating in political Italian elections with the symbol of the Movimento Libertario <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="statute" />. | |
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| Although in fact the Movimento Libertario is an officially registered Italian political party, as [[anti-statist]] movement disclaims the [[Sovereign state|State]] legality and its political elections. | | Although in fact the Movimento Libertario is an officially registered Italian political party, as [[anti-statist]] movement disclaims the [[Sovereign state|State]] legality and its political elections. |
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| The Movimento Libertario is formally neutral as libertarian ideology, with an anarcho-capitalist vision, a [[voluntaryist]] organization and an [[agorist]] practices as characteristics. | | The Movimento Libertario is formally neutral as libertarian ideology, with an anarcho-capitalist vision, a [[voluntaryist]] organization and an [[agorist]] practices as characteristics. |
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| Unlike the United States, in Italy and in the Movimento Libertario there are not internal controversies among the identity of libertarian term between libertarians members or a clear distinction between the [[right libertarian]] ([[paleolibertarian]] and [[libertarian conservatism|libertarian conservatives]]) members and left libertarians (the latter understood in their sense of American left libertarians Rothbardian like agorist, [[panarchist]] not to the European libertarian socialists) because the libertarian schools no presents so significant differences in their common anti-state vision. | | Unlike the United States, in Italy and in the Movimento Libertario there are not internal controversies among the identity of libertarian term between libertarians members or a clear distinction between the [[right libertarian]] ([[paleolibertarian]] and [[libertarian conservatism|libertarian conservatives]]) members and left libertarians (the latter understood in the |
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| Moreover, these libertarian schools are not rooted in Italy if not with some representative members in the Movimento Libertario.
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| The Movimento Libertario considers crucial to encourage what is common and unites all the various libertarian orientations, seeking to promote the protection of private property, free market and the natural law through actions and non-violent and peaceful means.
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| ===Structure and membership===
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| The bodies of internal administration include the Managing Director, Board of Directors (B.o. D.), Assembly of Members (Meeting of Shareholders), Groups of Territorial Association ([[clans]])<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=57 Movimento Libertario Clan libertarians] Italian map of the presence of local clan supporters ML.</ref>, Board of Auditors, and the Enclave of Essays.
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| The Statute of the Movimento Libertario<ref name="statute"/> describes and regulates all bodies of internal administration and their function.
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| Leonardo Facco co-founder of the Association, represents from 2007 till 2011 (in according to the statute and to the internal democracy of members of Association) the role of Managing Director of the Movimento Libertario.
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| He represents the Movimento Libertario in their official activity.
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| The Movimento Libertario is organized by a system of free participation of shareholders, registered members, and sympathizers on the Italian territory.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3635:tesseramento-2010-contiamo-su-di-voi&catid=1:latest-news ''Membership 2010!. We count on you!''] Retrived on December 31, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5528:libertari-non-si-nasce-si-diventa&catid=1:latest-news ''Libertarians are not born, they become!''] by Board of Directors of the Movimento Libertario. Retrived on May 23, 2010.</ref>
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| Any adult who registers and pays a participation fee becomes a shareholder member of the movement and therefore acquired the right to vote and actively participate to the meetings of internal bodies.
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| Minors, even if authorized by a single parent, may be enrolled only as members sympathizers with no rights to vote.
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| ===Principles===
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| Movimento Libertario in its founding act declares and acknowledges libertarian principles as internals to its Statute<ref name="statute" />:
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| * The [[Political freedom|Freedom]], understood as the absence of constraint is a natural right of the individual, which nobody (private or public organization) must threaten;
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| * The [[Government]], in its various variants, forces people to obey blindly and accept legislation invasive and oppressive monopoly;
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| * Everyone has the right to seek their own happiness and that of his loved ones, taking responsibility for their actions;
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| * Each individual is entitled organize in freedom themselves to protect their lives and their belongings, particularly given the enormous difficulties posed by the power of politicians at all levels;
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| * The need to eliminate and reduce the state, politicians and bureaucracies in the everyday life, increasingly recognizing the dignity of all people working really, producing their own resources and possessions.
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| * The Property is a natural and inalienable right of man, is primarily the property of themselves, of the own bodies and of one's life.
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| It can not be granted or denied by any social system, whether democratic or authoritarian.
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| Property also means all that belongs to the person and that is not the result of an act of violence, but by the work of the person, the acquisition and transformation of the state of nature and with free interaction of individuals<ref name="manifesto" />.
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| ===Purpose===
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| The Movimento Libertario, as political movement, is founded with the aim of reducing government to its lowest terms, in order to provide space for free interaction between individuals, or community consensus of individuals, who seek redress of their market needs <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="aboutus" />.
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| Every member is said to have a moral duty to liberate the forces of civil society and free trade, eliminating any form of intervention in defense of individual liberties <ref>Leonardo Facco. [http://digilander.libero.it/cssc/liborg/documenti/Programma_politico.pdf "Political Program of the Movimento Libertario"]</ref>.
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| The Movimento Libertario Statute<ref name="statute" /> considers necessary for Italy:
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| * The return to full and effective [[Self-ownership|individual sovereignty]] over their lives and their belongings, which belongs to the natural right to govern themselves through non-violent methods of coercion or by exercising the right to self-determination is that the sacred principles of resistance and opposition to any kind of tax;
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| * The rights of the individual nature of a right of ownership of their bodies and their belongings held lawfully, in fulfillment of the Rothbardian [[Non-aggression axiom]]:
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| {{quotation| ''"I define [[anarchist]] society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights."'' - [[Murray Newton Rothbard]] in ''Society and State''}}
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| As is registered in its name, the Movimento Libertario wants promote in the Italian civil society the natural rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness.
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| Each share of the Movimento, which would achieve the above purposes, is based on the principle of [[non-violence]]: "''no one can attack the person and the property of others''"<ref name="manifesto" />.
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| ====Political positions====
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| Supports the abolition of taxation in all forms and it is against regulation of free trade, including tariffs, price controls, coercive insurance, and production quotas.
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| An intermediate target on which to engage is the institutionalization of a [[flat tax]] whose rate is as low as possible (for example 22%) and one or more, no-tax area.<ref name="policy">Leonardo Facco. [http://digilander.libero.it/cssc/liborg/enclave/APPENDICE.doc" Appendix to Manifesto Libertario"], 2005.</ref>
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| The Movimento Libertario is an [[Eurosceptic]] movement, critical of the [[Euro]] and the presence of a European common economic monetary policy represented and direct by the [[European Central Bank]] and the [[European Commission]].<ref name="policy" />
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| It is in favor of a return to the gold standard and to a [[free banking]] system.<ref name="policy" />
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| Does not recognize the legality and legitimacy of the [[WTO]], [[IMF]], [[World Bank]] because they are statist organizations contrary to the principles of non-interference of governments in a free market economy.
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| The Movimento Libertario is in favour of free market [[capitalism]], supports market [[liberalization]] and [[deregulation]], it also supports [[privatization]] of State economy sector ([[state monopoly capitalism]]).
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| It is against [[statism]] and [[protectionism]], rejects public and private [[mixed economies]], opposed to marxian [[communism]], [[fascist]] economic planning ([[corporativism]]) and keynesians socialists interventions in economy by the State ([[state capitalism]]) and politics.
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| Believes work can not be regarded either as a right nor a duty, but only as a free choice of the individual, and as such, the work should not be subject to collective agreements or limited by rules.
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| The collective agreement is deemed unconstitutional.<ref name="policy" />
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| It is in favor of the abolition of professional orders of state; is not contrary to private professional orders and supports their spontaneous formation, but feel the problem arises from the institutionalization of professional orders of state and the choice of these same associations to act as a single party monopoly.
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| Accession to the orders should not be imposed by law.<ref name="policy" />
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| Supports the abolition of all business licenses; no price controls, balances, and no limitation in the initiation of new activities (such as limitations on the area or otherwise) may be exercised by the state and its territorial authorities.<ref name="manifesto" />
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| The Movimento Libertario recognizes the need for an emphasis on clarity of information to the public on the free choice of consumers.<ref name="policy" />
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| The vision of the Movimento Libertario is an international foreign policy of [[nonintervention]] and non-violence like proposed by candidate for President of the [[United States]] in 2008, [[Libertarian Republican|libertarian-republican]] Congressman [[Ron Paul]]<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2339 Movimento Libertario Who is Ron Paul?.] Summary sheet on Ron Paul and his political program in view of the U.S. presidential election of 2008 and why the Movimento Libertario shares his policy proposals.</ref>.
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| The movement is against any increase in military spending or strengthening of armaments by the Italian State, even within the [[NATO]], considered a military structure no longer necessary, and outside the context of the original defensive operations; it is against any forms of war, violent conflict or international interventions on foreign soil by Italian troops in line with the Rothbardian axiom of nonaggression <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="policy" />;
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| The legality and legitimacy of the [[United Nations]] is questioned because this international organisation is contrary to the principle of a world without the presence of the State.
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| The [[European Union]] is considered a bureaucratic organization for the European Big Government, with the aim to reduce the free economy and the organization of the territory through central control.
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| The [[Lisbon Treaty]] adoption is not supported but the movement is not theoretically against the possible realization of a [[referendum]] for the free choice of Italians.
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| The movement supports individual and territorial separatism and indipendentism, the right of free self-determination of peoples and recognizing areas ([[enclave]]) within a framework of regional political autonomy within a loose opening of trade between regions <ref name="policy" />.
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| Switzerland is considered an important model of confederative system both for the good economy development that for balanced policy organization of the territory.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5172:elvetizziamo-leuropa&catid=1:latest-news ''Transform the Europe in Swiss!''] by Giovanni Bonometti. Retrived on May 6, 2010.</ref>
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| =====Security=====
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| The Movimento Libertario favors the reduction of telephone tapping and registration requirement for the list of suspects intercepted, localization of security forces (more power to the municipal police as opposed to a reduction of the national police), supports experiments in privatization of police (without internal interferences of any Italian political party) in small towns, the strengthening the function of the justice of the peace and introduction of arbitration, and recognition and guarantee of the right to possess arms in defense of private property and life of each individual<ref name="policy" />
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| Movimento Libertario favors the [[Freedom of will|freedom of choice]] of individuals within the natural rights of property ([[negative rights]]) and liberty ([[negative liberty]]) a is to agree to recognize responsibility for personal actions and not to delegate to others their own choices, or do so in an informed way.<ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="policy" />
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| The movement supports a depenalization of light drugs (such as [[cannabis]]); supports the individual right to [[prostitution]] and [[abortion]].<ref name="policy" />
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| The movement is contrary to any form of restriction of freedom, control or censorship by the state, the imposition of coercive state abortion, the financing of every kind of marriage by the state<ref>[http://ilgiorno.ilsole24ore.com/brescia/cronaca/locale/2009/09/29/238358-siamo_uguali_carcerati_tempo_misurato_vedere_quelli_sono_nostri_figli.shtml ''We are equal to the prisoners, measured time to see who are our children''] [[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]], by Magda Biglia, Retrieved on September 29, 2009.</ref>, and the [[prohibition]] of drugs, alcohol and smoking <ref name="policy" />.
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| The Movimento Libertario is favorable to the [[homeschooling]] and to freedom of teaching and choice.
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| The Movimento Libertario is favorable to the creation of a pattern of private health care.
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| This is to avoid the justification for state control over private behavior motivated by the fact that the state spends money on health <ref name="policy" />.
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| =====Science=====
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| Movimento Libertario favors the free cultivation and the free marketing of seeds and [[GMO]] foods and no limits to GMOs in Italy, consumer freedom to choose their own products<ref name="policy" />, and freedom of private scientific research as long as it respect the natural human rights and it does not use public money.
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| Movimento Libertario does not support the theory of [[global warming]].
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| =====Speech=====
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| The Movimento Libertario favors the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the networks and media <ref name="policy" />.
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| The movement is against public funding of political parties, newspapers and denominational schools, and Italian public television paid for through taxes<ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/stop_allabbonamento_raccomandata_e_516_euro/27-09-2009/articolo-id=385900-page=0-comments=1 ''Stop subscription with a recommendation and 5.16 euro''] ''[[Il Giornale]]'', by Felice Manti. Retrieved on September 27, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/io_li_ho_messi_sacco_cosi_si_sono_arresi/evasione_fiscale-leonardo_facco-canone_rai/29-09-2009/articolo-id=386395-page=0-comments=1 "''I've put them in the bag: so they are surrendered''"] ''[[Il Giornale]]'' by Felice Manti. Retrieved on September 29, 2009. An interview to Leonardo Facco about the payment of public television fee</ref>.
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| ====Economic Crisis====
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| Movimento Libertario following the principles and lessons of the Austrian school <ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3098&catid=1:latest-news ''Crack up boom''] by Francesco Carbone. Retrived on September 13, 2008. Archived from [http://www.usemlab.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=306:le-tappe-del-crack-up-boom&catid=21:scuola-austriaca-di-economia&Itemid=51 ''The Stages of Crack Up Boom''] on October 12, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/images/ml/ifoglidienclave/Enclave5.pdf ''Crack Up Boom, monetary system''] ''I Fogli di Enclave'' n° 5, pages 2 and 3, by Francesco Carbone. Retrived on November 2008. Archived from [http://www.movimentolibertario.it http://www.movimentolibertario.it]</ref> and economic analysis on the subprime mortgage by [[Peter Schiff]]<ref>[http://www.usemlab.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=375:il-solito-gioco-p&catid=21:scuola-austriaca-di-economia&Itemid=51 ''The Usual Game''] by Francesco Carbone. Retrived on August 27, 2009.</ref> was able to predict in advance the economic crisis of 2008 <ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3083&catid=1:latest-news ''Beware, young inexperienced speculators''] by Francesco Carbone. Retrived on July 29, 2008.</ref>, the economic difficulties of [[Greece]] <ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3488&catid=1:latest-news ''Greece to the bankruptcy?''] by Mauro Meneghini. Retrived on November 9, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4111:grecia-a-settembre-2008-lo-avvamo-detto&catid=1:latest-news ''Greece, in November 2009 we had said! ''] by Mauro Meneghini. Retrived on February 11, 2010</ref> and Italy in 2010.
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| The Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates in various projects with the Italian Cultural Association of Austrian economics ([[Us Equity and Macro Lab]]) and its founder [[Francesco Carbone]].
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| Since May 2009, the Movimento Libertario sent to various Italian politicians and political forces a paper on the Italian and international economic situation from the perspective of the Austrian School.<ref name="crisis" />
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| In this paper, the Movimento Libertario called on the Italian policy in a drastic reduction of its role in the economy.
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| The reduction of State hasn't been pursued through a drastic spending cuts and taxes, particularly those that impede the savings and the investments.
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| The reduction of taxation and public spending would lead automatically to a shifting of social relationship between savings, investment and consumption towards the former, thereby reducing greatly the time to return to a prosperous economy.
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| During depression each reduction of taxes or any interference that impedes the free market will stimulate healthy economic activity, conversely, any increase in taxes or other measures to further depress the economy.
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| The Movimento Libertario believes that different measures were took, were differents from what stated above <ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4376:italia-tasse-sullimpresa-aumentate-in-tempi-di-crisi&catid=1:latest-news ''Italy, increase taxes on the enterprise in time of crisis!''] by Leonardo Facco. Retrived on March 10, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5692:manovra-da-24-miliardi-il-parere-del-movimento-libertario&catid=1:latest-news ''State operation from 24 billion euros: The opinion of the Movimento Libertario!''] by Leonardo Facco. Retrived on May 26, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5799:24-miliardi-la-speculazione-finanziaria-italiana&catid=1:latest-news ''24 billion, Italian financial speculation!''] by LucaF. Retrived on May 29 ,2010. Archived on May 28, 2010, from [http://iovotopli.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/sulla-speculazione-finanziaria-italiana-da-24-miliardi-di-euro/ http://iovotopli.wordpress.com]</ref>, so the situation of crisis and difficulties for Italy they will continue indefinitely.
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| For its anti-statist positions on taxes, in favor of free choice of individuals and more free market with less government, for the strong criticizing to Italian political and to its major protagonists, the Movimento Libertario and its members are severely criticized by many Italian politicians parties.
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| Both main centre-right and centre-left parties and related Italian coalitions, criticize the ML proposing about the economic cuts of taxes, the reduction of State presence in the economy <ref name="crisis" /> and the withdrawal of Italian troops from the international war scenarios.
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| The Italian centre-right coalition (The People of Freedom and the [[Northern League (Italy)|Northern League]]) criticizing the ML in particular for the individual choice and the anti-prohibitionism battle in the civil rights context by this; in economy criticizing the Movimento Libertario for a request of a new reform of Italian private pension provision in capitalist sense, for the abolition of Italian provinces and a reduction of national and local State costs by this.
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| The Movimento Libertario considers these parties like a [[populism|populist]] and [[social conservative]] parties against individual liberties and economic territorial autonomy.
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| The Italian centre-left coalition (Democratic Party and [[Italy of Values]]) criticizing the ML for the private healthcare purpose, the abolition of Italian Welfare State, the withholding tax and the abolition of wiretaps by the judiciary.
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| The Movimento Libertario considers these parties like a cripto-communist and justicialist parties.
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| On the [[Union_of_the_Centre_(current)|Union of the Centre]], the Movimento Libertario considers it a political opportunist Party, with a prohibitionist logic based on nationalist and statism (including religious catholic fundamentalism) in economics and individual rights.
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| Among the political groups outside the ML there is the case of the [[Italian Radicals]] members of the Italian [[Radical Party (Italy)|Radical Party]] that refer to certain principles of [[libertarian left|left libertarianism]], which although part of the coalition of centre-left with [[Democratic Party (Italy)|Democratic Party]], they offer a [[social liberalism|social liberal]] view favorable to free market and private property, together with a vision of the left liberalism in particular as regards the vision of civil rights and the secular State.
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| The Italian Radicals called sometimes themselves as "socialists", but they are not properly defined within a European vision of libertarianism of the left (radical socialism) because they are members of the [[ELDR]] group in the [[European Parliament]] and their economic battles are in favor of free markets and for an American reform of Italian institutions.
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| Their vision is similar to the American left libertarians for their [[pacifism]] and nonviolence with some elements of libertarian socialism although historically they tend to refer to [[Radical Party (Italy, 1877)|Italian radical risorgimental]] and to the [[Radical Party (France)|left reformist French]] models.
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| Many left-wing Italian parties refuse to recognize the Italian Radicals status of subject to left party although their State vision is very similar to the [[Progressivism in the United States|American "''liberals''"]] in many contexts.
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| Very often, the Italian Radicals are politically out of the coalitions as a third party.
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| Although the Movimento Libertario differ on many points from the Italian Radicals, it maintains close relations with them and their media (like [[Radio Radicale]] <ref>[http://www.radioradicale.it/soggetti/leonardo-facco Radio registrations about Leonardo Facco on Radio Radicale broadcasts.]</ref><ref>[http://www.radioradicale.it/soggetti/giorgio-fidenato Radio registrations about Giorgio Fidenato on Radio Radicale broadcasts.]</ref>) in particular as regards the battle against the withholding tax.
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| Giorgio Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario, has received support by the Italian Radicals of [[Marco Pannella]] by secretary, Mario Staderini<ref>[http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=149336 ''Interview with Mario Staderini: "No Longer with the PD Unable to Fight"''], ''L'Opinione'' by Dimitri Buffa. Retrived on November 19, 2009. Archived from [http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=149336 http://www.radicali.it/]</ref><ref>[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/messaggeroveneto/2009/11/19/PN_02_PNB2.html ''Fidenato process, Italian Radicals protests''] ''Messaggero Veneto'', page 2. Retrived on November 19, 2009. Archived from [http://ricerca.repubblica.it/ http://www.repubblica.it/]</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3957%3Asantarossa-lista-bonino-si-allabolizione-del-sostituto-dimposta&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=1 ''Santarossa (Bonino List): Yes abolition of withholding tax!''] Retrived on January 28, 2010.</ref> and others association in the battle over the withholding tax.<ref>[http://ricerca.gelocal.it/messaggeroveneto/archivio/messaggeroveneto/2009/11/12/PN_04_PND1.html ''Fidenato, the battle with the Inland Revenue continues with the process and the sit-in''] ''Messaggero Veneto'', by Elena Del Giudice, page 4. Retrived on November 12, 2009.</ref>
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| Giorgio Fidenato, as representative of the Movimento Libertario, was invited to discuss his case at the national conference of the Italian Radicals in [[Chianciano Terme]] (in Province of [[Siena]]) in November 2009.<ref>[http://vimeo.com/7667910 Video on the speech of Giorgio Fidenato in Congress of Italian Radicals] held in Chianciano Terme in November 2009.</ref>
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| On April 30, 2010, Elisabetta Zamparutti Italian Radical member of [[Italian Parliament]] in Environment Committee turned her solidarity to the Movimento Libertario, Federated Farmers and Giorgio Fidenato, claiming their action of nonviolent civil disobedience for the sown of GMO maize, arguing the need to open Italy to the cultivation of GMOs.<ref>[http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=156553 ''GMO, Zamparutti: The act of civil disobedience on GMO research and helps agriculture''] Retrived on April 30, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5076:marcia-del-mais-sostegno-della-deputata-radicale-zamparutti&catid=1:latest-news ''March of the corn: Radical support by Zamparutti MIP!''] Retrived on May 1, 2010.</ref>
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| On May 4, 2010, Italian Radicals parliamentaries Elisabetta Zamparutti, Marco Beltrandi, Rita
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| Bernardini, Maria Antonietta Farina Coscioni, Matteo Mecacci e Maurizio Turco ([[Lista Emma Bonino]] in the Italian Democratic Party have deposited (and publishing the following day) a parliamentary question written to [[Italian Minister of the Interior]], [[Roberto Maroni]] and to the new [[Italian Minister of Agriculture]], [[Giancarlo Galan]] to know what they are going to do on possible new attacks in the future headquarters of Italian Federated Farmers
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| and on the issue of GMOs.
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| In the Italian Radicals parliamentary questions there are refers threats to person and property that Giorgio Fidenato and Italian Federated Farmers received by environmentalists, anti-globalization and communist movements.<ref>[http://www.camera.it/417?idSeduta=316&resoconto=bt13¶m=n4-07050#n4-07050 ''Assembly Reports''] Annex B Seat N°316, May 4, 2010. Italian parliamentary question of the Italian Radicals to the Italian minister of the Interior and to his colleague to the Italian Agriculture. Archived from [http://www.camera.it/417?idSeduta=316&resoconto=bt13¶m=n4-07050#n4-07050 http://www.camera.it]</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5158:semina-ogm-aggressione-a-fidenato-interrogazione-dellonorevole-zamparutti-e-colleghi&catid=1:latest-news#yvComment5158 ''GMO sowing, assault to Fidenato: question italian parliamentary member Zamparutti and colleagues!''] Retrived on May 5, 2010.</ref>
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| Parliamentary questions mentions also that the Italian government still does not recognize to Giorgio Fidenato, the Italian Federated Farmers, the Movimento Libertario and Futuragra the right to sown GMO maize, as determined by decision of the [[Italian Council of State]] and European Community Directive.
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| Among the political groups outside the ML there is also the case of the association Libertiamo that refer to certain principles of liberalism.
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| The members comes from [[Liberal Reformers]] party and from historical factions of classical liberals, fiscal conservatives and liberal-conservatives of [[Forza Italia]] party and some ''finiano'' member of [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]].
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| [http://www.libertiamo.it Libertiamo] is a minor internal cultural faction of centre-right party [[The People of Freedom]], that is favorable to free market vision with freedom choice about bioethical themes like abortion and [[stem cells]] research and [[Free-market environmentalism|free-market environmentalist]] policy.
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| Libertiamo although the name that recall libertarian brand, is not a libertarian faction but a liberal-conservatives and liberal-democratic think tank very close with Gianfranco Fini and his political positions.
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| The Movimento Libertario don't have a particular relations with this association, although it still has given its formal support against the withholding tax<ref>[http://www.libertiamo.it/2009/11/16/la-battaglia-di-fidenato-la-supponenza-dellavvocato/ ''The Battle of Fidenato, the arrogance of the advocate''] by Piercamillo Falasca. Retrived on November 16, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.libertiamo.it/2009/11/19/il-giudice-rinvia-a-gennaio-liniziativa-di-fidenato-sul-sostituto-dimposta-continua/ ''The court refers in January, Fidenato initiative continues on withholding tax''] by Piercamillo Falasca. Retrived on November 19, 2009.</ref>, supporting Giorgio Fidenato and the right to sow GMO maize.<ref>[http://www.libertiamo.it/2010/04/30/ogm-la-disobbedienza-civile-di-fidenato-i-buoni-frutti-del-pragmatismo-e-le-bacche-velenos-degli-ambientalisti/ ''GMOs: civil disobedience Fidenato, the good fruits of pragmatism and berries poisonous environmentalists''] by Piercamillo Falasca. Retrived on April 30, 2010.</ref> and mentions some initiatives of the ML on its website.<ref>[http://www.libertiamo.it/2010/03/13/15-marzo-a-milano-in-scena-una-provocazione-libertaria-contro-le-tasse/ ''March 15 in Milan, staged a libertarian provocation against taxes''] Retrived on March 13, 2010</ref>.
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| ==== The case of "anarchists analytical"====
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| Outside the Movimento Libertario, there are some Italians [[individual anarchist]] and former libertarians (like [[Luigi Corvaglia]], Ricccardo La Conca, Fabio Massimo Nicosia) called "anarchists analytical" that have not joined in the ML, preferring a vision of theoretical synthesis between Rothbardian libertarianism and traditional anarchism or libertarian socialism.<ref>[http://anarchismoliberale.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/evoluzione-del-pensiero-gli-anarchici-analitici/ ''Evolution of thought: Anarchists Analytics''] by William Longhi. Retrived on August 22, 2008.</ref>
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| In the "anarchists analytical" group (that is not a political party but only a cultural movement), the coherent and rigorous vision of the Movimento Libertario about the defense of market ideas in all its aspects, is often interpreted and criticized as a tendency to moral conservatism (without any form of ethical relativism).<ref>[http://salentolibero.ilcannocchiale.it/2006/04/28/intervista_a_un_leftlibertaria.html ''Interview with a left-libertarian''] Retrived on April 28, 2006. Interview with Luigi Corvaglia about the anarchism analytical</ref>
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| If this is true as regards the theoretical level of the libertarian principles on the natural rights of property and about the free market, it is false as regards the freedom of individual choice (for himself in the context of respect of the others individuals).
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| === Violence suffered ===
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| In April 2010, the Movimento Libertario and its members (in particular Giorgio Fidenato and Leonardo Facco) were subjected to threats and acts of violent vandalism in its headquarters by Italian [[Anti-globalization movement]] and Italian [[left wing]] [[anti-capitalist]] and [[environmentalist]] groups about the question of GMO maize.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66sP-6e4nY Video about violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers'']</ref><ref>[http://www.agi.it/trieste/notizie/201004302035-cro-rts1025-ogm_fvg_oppositori_irrompono_in_sede_agricoltori_federati ''GMO: FVG, opponents bursts within Federated Farmers''] ''Agi News'' Retrived on April 30, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/mais_ogm_scoppia_guerra_seme/01-05-2010/articolo-id=442040-page=0-comments=1 ''GMO maize, war breaks out of the seed''] ''Il Giornale'', by Fausto Biloslavo. Retrived on May 1, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U724XcLZDk ''TG5 tv service on Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario first sowing GMO in Italy''] Retrived on May 1, 2010. In the tv service the violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers.</ref><ref>[http://www.newnotizie.it/2010/05/01/agricoltori-pro-biotech-sfidano-il-decreto/ ''Pro-biotech farmers defy the decree''] by Stefano Bernardi. Retrived on May 1, 2010.</ref>
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| ===Activities===
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| ====Against taxes====
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| From March 2010, the Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates actively in the initiative offered by [http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/ Confcontribuenti], a Confederation of Italian taxpayers.
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| Confcontribuenti supports the Movimento Libertario and Giorgio Fidenato in his battle against withholding tax.<ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:sostituto-dimposta&catid=41:sostituto-dimposta&Itemid=64 ''Withholding tax''] Retrived on February 3, 2010.</ref>
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| <ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=3&art=90283 ''The Battle of Confcontribuenti for the abatement of taxes unfair''] ''l'Opinione'' by Stefano Magni. Retrived on March 11, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71%3A1-aprile-sentenza-sul-sostituto-dimposta&catid=34%3Aultime-notizie&Itemid=1 ''1 April: ruling on withholding tax''] Retrived on February 3, 2010.</ref>
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| The Movimento Libertario wants to create a critical mass of owners and tax payers to launch peacefully Italian protests against the government tax collectors<ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=3&art=66631 ''"We defend the money from the theft of state!"''] ''L'Opinione'' by Stefano Magni. Retrieved on December 1, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.brunoleoni.it/nextpage.aspx?codice=5684 ''Taxes? If no one likes to pay them a reason there will be...''] ''L'Occidentale'', by Carlo Stagnaro. Retrieved on October 8, 2007. Archived by [http://www.brunoleoni.it http://www.brunoleoni.it]</ref>, like the case of [[Tea party protests]] US <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="aboutus" /><ref>[http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/Tasse-c-e-chi-vuole-boicottare-i-prodotti-sardi/1603547/6 ''Taxes, there are those who want to boycott products Sardinian''] ''La Nuova, nuova Sardegna'', by Alfredo Franchini, page 3. Retrieved on May 11, 2007. Archived by [http://espresso.repubblica.it http://espresso.repubblica.it]</ref><ref>[http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/Tasse-sul-lusso-rivolta-via-web/1608496/6 ''Taxes on luxury, addressed via Web''] ''La Nuova, nuova Sardegna''. Retrieved on May 14, 2007. Archived by [http://espresso.repubblica.it http://espresso.repubblica.it]</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5818:dal-tea-party-alla-rivolta-fiscale&catid=1:latest-news#yvComment5818 ''From the Tea Party to the tax revolt''] by Leonardo Facco. Retrived on May 30, 2010.</ref>.
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| From April 2010, the Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates actively in the initiative offered by [http://www.teapartyitalia.it/ Tea Party Italia association], for the organisation of Italian Tea Party events.
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| Tea Party Italia is an independent voluntary movement association led by David Mazzarelli born around the online cultural magazine [http://www.ultimathule.it/ Ultima Thule.it]. <ref>[http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/organizziamo-il-primo-tea-party-italiano-chi-ci-sta.html ''We organize the first ItalianTea Party. Who joins?''] by drafting of Ultimathule.it. Retrived on February 9, 2010</ref>.
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| Inside the intellectual and cultural leaders are classical liberals, fiscal conservatives, liberists and libertarians from various think tanks and Italian associations.
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| Between them in addition to the Movimento Libertario are also Confcontribuenti, Usemlab, Italian Student for Individual Liberty.
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| On May 20, 2010 the Movimento Libertario has been at [[Prato]] for the first Italian Tea Party, an organized meeting to discuss the excessive tax burden in Italy and the classic liberals and liberist solutions to economic crisis.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4830:prato-il-primo-tea-party-italiano&catid=1:latest-news ''Prato, the first Italian Tea Party''] Retrived on April 15, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/il-primo-tea-party-italiano-prato-il-20-maggio.html ''The first Italian Tea Party on May 20''] Retrived on May 5, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.t-party.it/2010/5/21/tea-party-prato-liberali,-libertari-e-conservatori-per-la-rivoluzione-fiscale.aspx ''Prato Tea Party: classical liberals, libertarians and fiscal conservatives for tax revolution''] by Saba Giulia Zecchi, Retrived on May 21, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5465:primo-tea-party-italiano-la-registrazione-dellevento&catid=1:latest-news ''First Italian Tea Party, the video event''] by Raffaele Schettino Retrived on May 21, 2010. Archived from [http://vimeo.com/11916813 http://vimeo.com] Video of the evening event on Prato, First Italian Tea Party on may 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3tLbWRDS0 ''Tea Party, video service local television news network''] Retrived on May 24, 2010. Archived by [http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5565:tea-party-servizio-al-tg-locale&catid=1:latest-news http://www.movimentolibertario.it] Video interviews with Marco Respinti (Columbia Institute) and Leonardo Facco (ML).</ref><ref>[http://www.libero-news.it/news/416906/I_Tea_Party_sbarcano_in_Italia__meno_tasse__pi%C3%B9_libert%C3%A0.html ''The Tea Party landed at Italy: Less taxes, more freedom''] ''Libero'', by Saba Giulia Zecchi. Retrived on May 21, 2010. Archived from [http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/tea-party-prato-liberali-libertari-e-conservatori-la-rivoluzione-fiscale.html http://www.ultimathule.it].</ref>
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| The meeting was organized against any State intervention and anti-socialization of our economy, to claim the right to personal autonomy and economic individual responsibility.
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| In view of the second Italian Tea Party in [[Rome]] on June 26, 2010, the movement association of T-Party has provided the distribution of forms necessary to ask your employer to receive the gross salary in the pay packet: an act of resistance against the withholding tax considered a tax scam.
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| With the public distribution of the modules, the Tea Party of Rome wants to support the struggle of Giorgio Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario for the abolition of withholding tax.<ref>[http://www.t-party.it/2010/6/6/tea-party-roma-distribuzione-dei-moduli-per-chiedere-al-datore-di-lavoro-lo-stipendio-lordo-in-busta-paga.aspx ''Tea Party Rome: distribution of forms to ask the employer to pay gross payroll''] by Tea Party Rome. Retrived on June 6, 2010.</ref>
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| ====Selling our vote====
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| In view of the ruling on the case of [[Giorgio Fidenato]] on [[withholding tax]], the Movimento Libertario have presented in Pordenone (for the 2010 regional elections in Italy on March 28–29), an initiative entitled: "Selling our vote" <ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3889:regionali-vendiamo-il-nostro-voto-per-fidenato&catid=1:latest-news "Selling our vote"] Iniziative of the Movimento Libertario in supports of Giorgio Fidenato against withholding tax during regional elections in Italy of 2010. Retrieved on January 20, 2010.</ref>.
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| The intent was to sign a contract for the candidates in the elections in which they undertook to support, in every way and publicly, the battle of Fidenato against the withholding tax.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4004:regionali-2010-contratto-di-cessione-del-voto&catid=1:latest-news ''Regional 2010, Contract of Sale of Voting!''] Copy of the module for the political supports in favour to Giorgio Fidenato in the battle against withholding tax. Retrieved on February 1, 2010.</ref>
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| The supporters and members of the Movimento Libertario undertook to support in public the political candidates signers, guaranteeing to them the participation of Italian libertarian voters to the regional vote.
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| This initiative builds on the initiatives of the [[Americans for Tax Reform]] by [[Grover Norquist]].
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| Norquist and his association against [[taxes]] are committed to supporting the various candidates in American elections only after obtaining from them a substantial commitment to fight for tax cuts.
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| In the 2010 regional elections in Italy, the Movimento Libertario have supported the Italian Radicals regionals candidates with their ([[Bonino-Pannella List]]), signers of the contract "Selling our vote".<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4086:8-candidati-campani-insieme-a-giorgio-fidenato&catid=1:latest-news ''6(+1) Campania candidates with Giorgio Fidenato!'']. Retrived on February 9, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4100:anche-cappato-sottoscriv-il-contratto-di-cessione-del-voto&catid=1:latest-news ''Cappato also endorses the contract of sale vote!'']. Retrived on February 10, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4109:dalla-puglia-adesione-al-contratto-di-qcessione-del-votoq&catid=1:latest-news ''Puglia adhesion to the contract of assignment of the vote''] Retrived on February 11, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4122:contratto-cessione-voto-unaltra-adesione-da-napoli&catid=1:latest-news ''Assignment contract vote, another membership to Naples!''] by Domenico Letizia. Retrived on February 12, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4141:contratto-di-cessione-del-voto-unaltra-sottoscrizione-dalla-calabria&catid=1:latest-news ''Assignment of contract vote, another subscription from Calabria!''] Retrived on February 13, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4148:vendiamo-il-nostro-voto-unaltra-adesione-dalla-toscana&catid=1:latest-news ''Sell our vote, another membership from Tuscany!''] Retrived on February 14, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.casertanews.it/public/articoli/201002/art_20100216081418.htm ''Domenico Letizia between candidates Bonino-Pannella List to the Campania Region'']. Retrived on February 16, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4183:vendiamo-il-nostro-voto-lassoziazione-radicali-qenzo-tortoraq-aderisce&catid=1:latest-news ''Sell our vote, Radicals Association "Enzo Tortora" joins''] Retrived on February 17, 2010</ref>
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| Confcontribuenti, as an independent association from the Movimento Libertario, created another very similar contract of commitment to political candidates in Italian regional elections 2010, to support the tax cuts.
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| ====Seminary on Vivien Kellems====
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| Between 25 and 27 June 2010, the Movimento Libertario will hold in [[Bergamasco (AL)]] ([[Province of Alessandria]]) a three days of seminar and studies with theoretical learning and practical training on principles of libertarianism in economy, policy and culture in the contemporary society.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4380:primo-seminario-vivien-kellems&catid=1:latest-news ''First seminar Vivien Kellems''] Retrived on March 11, 2010.</ref>
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| This first seminar will entitled "''Vivien Kellems. The rigor of the ideas, the power of action''" and it will dedicated in honor of American entrepreneur [[Vivien Kellems]] and her battle over withholding tax in 1948 that she has described herself in her book ''Toil, Taxes and Trouble''.<ref>On the Kellems case, see Vivien Kellems, ''Toil, Taxes and Trouble'' (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952)</ref>
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| This historical fact became a model for the Italian libertarian farmer Giorgio Fidenato to start his [[civil disobedience]] and [[Tax resistance]] against the Italian [[withholding tax]].
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| The Kellems case was presented also by [[Murray Rothbard]] in his book ''[[For a New Liberty]]'' <ref>Murray Newton Rothbard, ''[[For a New Liberty]]. The Libertarian Manifesto.'', pag. 86, (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973). Archived from [http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp http://mises.org/]</ref>:
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| {{quotation|''The withholding feature of the income tax is a still more clear-cut instance of involuntary servitude. For as the intrepid Connecticut industrialist Vivien Kellems argued years ago, the employer is forced to expend time, labor, and money in the business of deducting and transmitting his employees' taxes to the federal and state governments — yet the employer is not recompensed for this expenditure. What moral principle justifies the government's forcing employers to act as its unpaid tax collectors? The withholding principle, of course, is the linchpin of the whole federal income tax system. Without the steady and relatively painless process of deducting the tax from the worker's paycheck, the government could never hope to raise the high levels of tax from the workers in one lump sum. Few people remember that the withholding system was only instituted during World War II and was supposed to be a wartime expedient. Like so many other features of State despotism, however, the wartime emergency measure soon became a hallowed part of the American system. It is perhaps significant that the federal government, challenged by Vivien Kellems to test the constitutionality of the withholding system, failed to take up the challenge. In February 1948 Miss Kellems, a small manufacturer in Westport, Connecticut, announced that she was defying the withholding law and was refusing to deduct the tax from her employees. She demanded that the federal government indict her, so that the courts would be able to rule on the constitutionality of the withholding system. The government refused to do so, but instead seized the amount due from her bank account. Miss Kellems then sued in federal court for the government to return her funds. When the suit finally came to trial in February 1951, the jury ordered the government to refund her money. But the test of constitutionality never came''. - [[Murray Rothbard]] in [[For a New Liberty]]}}
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| The seminar will open to young people that having registered their participation in the site of the ML.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4380:primo-seminario-vivien-kellems&catid=1:latest-news ''Enrolment at the first seminar Vivien Kellems''] Retrived on March 11, 2010</ref>
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| The event will see the presence of many Italian libertarian personalities of journalism, culture and communication, law and Austrian economy in the role of teachers for the participants.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6036:seminario-vivien-kellems-ecco-il-programma&catid=1:latest-news ''Seminar Vivien Kellems, this is the program!''] Retrived on June 8, 2010.</ref>
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| In addition to the organizers Leonardo Facco, Giorgio Fidenato and Carmelo Miragliotta is expected to attend Piero Vernaglione, Francesco Carbone, Chiara Battistoni, Carlo Zucchi, Alessandro Vitale, Massimo Pongolini, Paolo Bernardini and Gaetano Elnekave.
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