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Notes
1
Claudio Martelli, 'Per un'alleanza fra il merito e il bisogno', Avanti!, 4-5 April 1982; cited in
Merkel 1987: 106-107.
2
Chiesa 1993: 33; cited in della Porta 1995: 101-2. The Feste dell'Avanti were festivals organised
by the party on similar lines with the PCI's Feste dell'Unità. These festivals relied on voluntary
labour, mostly by party activists and their friends and family.
3
Gilioli 1994: 17, cited in Farrell 1995: 45.
4
In 1997, FI claimed to have 140,000 members – a low figure if one factors in the exaggeration to
which party membership figures are always subject (Poli 1997: 106).
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