Meeting at the Pope’s Logge at 5pm and arrival in Prato Sant’Agostino
SIENA. We receive and publish from Cravos Siena.
“I did mine, now it’s your turn!”. With these words the Tuscan partisan Marcello Citano, who fought for the liberation from Nazi fascism, underlined the continuity between yesterday’s resistance and today’s struggles, with the common objective of building a society different from the one that had produced the war.
If being anti-fascist means first of all not being indifferent, on this day our solidarity goes to the people of Palestine and
of Kurdistan, who are fighting against those who want to erase them from history, to Ukraine devastated by the Russian invasion, by neo-Nazi battalions and
from the militarization of NATO, and to all oppressed peoples fighting for their self-determination.
This year too we are approaching April 25th in a context dominated by war, which devastates the territories, starves the people and shows its
effects not only with the violence of the bombs, but also with inflation and high prices of living which are impoverishing the medium-low segments of the
population.
80 years after the Liberation it is up to us, the student and citizen community, to face a government majority headed by the heir party of the Italian Social Movement, which through repression, reduction of civil rights, differentiated autonomy and premiership, is risking giving an authoritarian and divisive to our country. At the same time we do not feel represented by an opportunist opposition that rediscovers itself as anti-fascist only for convenience when in fact it supports the exact same policies as those they say they oppose.
While the Italian government continues to support the imperialist NATO bloc through increased military spending, workers and
workers who finance public spending with their taxes have less and less access to those essential rights that the State is responsible for guaranteeing: healthcare, education, the right to housing, dignified work, civil rights.
It’s up to us to fight against a system that has normalized free work, starting from high school with school-work alternation, passing through unpaid internships at university to end up crushed in an increasingly precarious, poor and insecure world of work. .
We also take to the streets to once again urge our universities to cease all agreements with Israel, with military companies
like Leonardo and with the defense sectors. Because we cannot accept that places of culture are complicit, in terms of agreements and transmitted knowledge, in the increase in ongoing geopolitical tensions and the genocide in Gaza.
For us at Cravos, April 25th is also a significant date because it coincides with the Carnation Revolution of 1974 in Portugal, from which our student organization takes its name and which put an end to the longest-running fascist regime of the twentieth century.
For us, being anti-fascists today means not only remembering the struggle of the partisans who liberated our country, but doing activism in schools, universities, workplaces, cities, to improve people’s living conditions and oppose a system that it produces the conditions in which the various forms in which fascism recurs thrive.
For us, April 25th is every day, alongside those who want to change today’s society for the better.
