A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova - April 25: day of struggle and resistance (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

We publish the reports and press releases received on April 25 
(updating). ---- TRIESTE ---- This year too, the Liberation Day from 
Nazi-fascism was characterized by increasing militarization. On the one 
hand, for the third consecutive year, the anti-fascist march that 
started from San Giacomo had to face provocations and police violence, 
including truncheons; on the other hand, the Risiera monument was once 
again surrounded by a disproportionate number of policemen and 
carabinieri in uniform and plainclothes, as well as private guards. It 
is certainly not the first time, but today the checks and searches were 
even more suffocating than in previous years, and continued for the 
first time even after the end of the official ceremony.

Therefore, the months of meetings and attempts at mediation carried out 
by the institutional and trade union left for a change of pace were of 
no use: the militarization of the Risiera di San Sabba is a political 
choice that this Council does not want to give up at any cost and that 
goes hand in hand with the growing militarization of the entire city.

It is clear that if we want to blow up this scheme, the only way is for 
the indignation that we have seen in so many people today to transform 
into anger and the desire to concretely sweep away barriers and controls.

For our part, as always, we did not take part in the institutional 
ceremony: our anti-fascism is incompatible with military parades, 
religious functions and institutional greetings.

We claim our presence outside, with our anti-militarist and 
anti-authoritarian slogans, against rearmament, borders, for solidarity 
between exploited people against all nationalism.

We also claim the protest against the mayor when he left the Risiera: we 
have no shared memory with the fascists and their friends and the fact 
that such people speak on April 25 disgusts us.

Our solidarity goes once again to the beaten comrades.

Germinal Anarchist Group

ASTI

?This year too, the afternoon procession organized by the Anti-Fascist 
Assembly took place in Asti. A demonstration far from those 
institutional celebrations that have completely mummified the 
Resistance, presenting the partisan struggle solely as a patriotic struggle.

About 250 people participated in our procession, noisily crossing the 
city with music, banners, flyers and red and black flags. Among the 
interventions at the microphone, there was also one in memory of the 
anarchist partisan from Asti Giacomo Tartaglino. Battle name "Nedo", 
Giacomo was a unionist among the railway workers, a deserter during the 
First World War and a fighter of the Garibaldi formations, which he 
joined in July 1944.

The demonstration ended at the Bosco dei Partigiani where there were 
concerts, DJ sets, banquets and a convivial pasta.

An April 25th of free sociality and struggle against militarism, 
repression and rampant fascism. An important civic moment to reconnect 
the partisan memory of yesterday with the resistance of those who today 
oppose the rearmament policies, labor exploitation, patriarchy and the 
increasingly authoritarian and repressive decrees of this neo-fascist 
government. Today as yesterday, partisans, deserters of all wars, with 
love and anger, for a world of free and equals.

Werther Spessa

TORINO

Like every year we found ourselves at the plaque that commemorates Ilio 
Baroni, anarchist partisan.

Today more than ever, finding ourselves in that corner of the suburbs, 
where Baroni fell fighting, was not a mere exercise in memory, but an 
opportunity to intertwine the threads of the struggles, because the 
witness left by those who are no longer with us is now in our hands.

In a climate of war and revisionism, this April 25th was a moment of 
gathering for the libertarian community of Barriera di Milano. A 
Barriera that the fascists governing the District have placed under 
military siege, to mute social issues, so that those who today struggle 
to pay rent and bills can take out their resentment on the latest 
arrivals, those who live even worse, those who no one will rent them a 
house, those who make do as they can with a myriad of precarious jobs.

But the condition of those born elsewhere is the same as those who live 
here, because precariousness, evictions and poverty are the daily bread 
of all of us. Talking about the partisans of Barriera, of those who, 
like Baroni, fought fascism in the 1920s as well as during the 
Resistance, reminds us that, in spite of all the revisionisms of the 
State, fascism was and continued to be the armed wing of the masters.

Today we find ourselves facing the same people who, repressive law after 
repressive law, are writing in a normal way the special laws of this 
century, those that risk burying comrades in jail for trivial episodes 
of struggle. A writing on the wall, a road block, a picket, an 
occupation, perhaps put together by one of the many associative crimes, 
are treated with extreme harshness.

In the soft meshes of democracy, fascism, also thanks to the 
acquiescence of a certain left, is crushing in an increasingly iron grip 
the few freedoms and protections, that those who were there before took 
without asking permission.

Only with the struggle alone will we have in our hands the dream 
unrealized by the partisans of Barriera.

There were many of us and the day, thanks to a bright sun, flew by 
quickly, with the laying of flowers at the plaque that remembers Ilio 
Baroni and the rich and engaging anarchist and anti-fascist songbook of 
Cor'okkio. A glass, two taralli and the commitment to meet again in the 
square on May 1st with an anarchist and antimilitarist segment.

Below is the flyer distributed in the square:

1945-2025. Today as yesterday

Direct action against the State and fascists!

Memory is a tool for reading the present and radically transforming it. 
April 25th represents a precious opportunity.

Recalling the partisan epic is not a rhetorical exercise, it reminds us 
of the importance of fighting openly against fascism, which has always 
been the armed wing of the masters who force us into an intolerable 
condition of misery and exploitation.

Today we live in a climate of war and unprecedented revisionism. The 
Resistance is reduced to a mere struggle for national liberation, to 
erase its subversive, internationalist, anti-state and anti-capitalist 
thrust. The revolutionary perspective is eclipsed under the weight of a 
hegemonic narrative that sees the Republic as the definitive landing 
place, the fruit of the efforts of many who, on the contrary, wanted to 
do away with a society divided into classes.

In the meantime, the outskirts of our city are under constant military 
siege. The raids against those who do not have the right document in 
their pockets are multiplying. Social issues are treated as problems of 
public order.

The rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer. There is 
no work, and even when there is, it is underpaid, dangerous, exploited, 
without any kind of protection. Precariousness, evictions, poverty are 
the order of the day. Rent and bills have grown out of all proportion 
and more and more people are struggling to make it to the end of the month.

The fascist government is fanning the flames of the war between the 
poor, to hide the social war it has unleashed against all the poor, 
Italians and those born elsewhere. The attempt is to give the country an 
increasingly authoritarian and liberticidal turn, equipping itself with 
tools to repress any social uprising in the bud. The recipe chosen to 
hinder political and social opposition is the latest "Security" Decree 
Law (formerly DDL 1236), approved by the Council of Ministers and 
published in the Official Gazette on April 12. The provision that has 
just come into force, completely bypassing parliament, follows in the 
footsteps of other provisions (the rave, Cutro, immigration, Caivano 
decrees), which target the poor, non-conformist lifestyles, and 
undocumented foreigners. Road or rail blocks, pickets, occupations, 
graffiti on barracks or police stations, carry very harsh penalties. 
Normal forms of struggle implemented by climate, social and trade union, 
anti-prison and no-border movements risk costing many comrades prison time.

The introduction of the crime of "word terrorism" is confirmed. Even 
more power, flexibility and impunity are granted to the police forces. 
The struggles carried out in prisons and CPRs - even in the form of 
passive resistance - can be pursued more harshly because those who carry 
them out are depicted as constitutively criminal, illegal, outside the 
norm. The logic underlying the decree is that of the criminal law of the 
enemy. A logic of war, in which those who are identified as enemies must 
be annihilated, reduced to nothing, deprived of life, freedom and 
dignity. The formal protections reserved for citizens do not apply to 
the enemy. When the logic of war is applied to the law, some human 
groups are repressed for what they are rather than for what they do. The 
entire action of the executive is informed by this principle.

A principle on whose foundations the Nazi concentration camps and 
Stalinist gulags were built. Today democracy throws off the mask and 
shows its true face, that of the most shameless violence to safeguard 
class privilege and power in the hands of a few.

Not only that. The ongoing repressive crackdown and the criminalization 
of social movements go hand in hand with an intense war effort, 
supported by both the left and the institutional right. The ReArm Europe 
plan plans to allocate 800 billion euros to large-scale rearmament. 
Military spending in our country has long reached 108 million euros per 
day. Missions abroad by the Italian armed forces to defend their 
neocolonial interests have multiplied. On the other hand, essential 
public services are facing huge cuts. Housing, healthcare, education, 
efficient local public transport are a real mirage. Warfare is 
definitively taking the place of outdated welfare policies. The military 
industry is doing a roaring trade, and those who pay the price are the 
men, women and children who perish under the bombs built a stone's throw 
from our homes.

Our city - a true excellence in the aerospace and war sector - is 
committed to building the City of Aerospace, a research hub promoted by 
the arms giant Leonardo and the Polytechnic Subalpine, which will even 
host an accelerator of innovation in the field of Defense, one of the 
nine European nodes of D.I.A.N.A, a NATO structure.

They want to enlist our bodies and our consciences by bombarding us with 
patriotic rhetoric, starting from schools and universities. They want to 
prepare us for an expansion of the conflict that can only be a harbinger 
of death.

But the laws dictated by the repressive climate and the war economy are 
nothing more than the normative precipitate of the balance of power 
within society. We still have time to ensure that fear changes sides, to 
stop the advance of fascism, nationalism, militarism.

The many freedoms that masters and rulers continue to take away from us 
by force can only be taken back by practicing direct action, solidarity, 
mutual support between exploited. The partisans who took up arms and 
fought street by street and on mountain paths until the second half of 
the 1940s knew this well.

It is up to us to collect their legacy and ensure that their efforts 
have not been in vain.

It is up to us to realize day after day the dream of a world of free and 
equal women, of a truly self-managed society, free from the state, 
masters, military, and police.

Turin Anarchist Federation

Antimilitarist Assembly - Turin

meetings, open to interested parties, every Tuesday at 8:30 pm in Corso 
Palermo 46

LIVORNO

In the square against war and fascism

On April 24 and 25, as the Livorno Antimilitarist Coordination, we 
organized, together with other organizations, initiatives against the 
arms race, against all wars, for internationalist

solidarity. The popular uprising of April 25, 1945 not only put an end 
to fascism but also to the war desired by the regime. For this reason, 
we took to the streets on April 24 with a demonstration at the 
Partisan's plaque in Via Ernesto Rossi, attended by dozens of people 
with numerous interventions at the microphone. During the demonstration, 
we displayed the banner "No to war, no to fascism, no to militarism" 
which we also brought to the square the following day.

On the morning of April 25th we were again present in front of the 
plaque, contesting, as the institutional demonstration passed by, those 
policies of war, rearmament and militarism for which the government and 
institutions are responsible, complicit in the genocide in Palestine, 
the war in Eastern Europe and the general escalation of global war.

?MASSENZATICO (RE)

300 people at the table with cappelletti, boiled meats, sauces and zuppa 
inglese met in Massenzatico on April 25th. Many other people passed by 
the Cucine del Popolo during the day. The morning conference on the 
Libertarian Resistance held by Federico Ferretti was interesting, and he 
gave an account of the great contribution of anarchists to the 
anti-fascist struggle starting from the beginning of the 1920s.
In the afternoon there was plenty of space for children with games, 
meetings and conviviality.
After a day of great militant commitment, we closed the event in the 
evening with the partisan's pasta.
A hug
Gianandrea

PORDENONE

250 people at the anti-fascist march

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