the statement from the 5 Star Movement council group – Seeds of the future Altamura – AltamuraLive.it

We receive and publish the statement from the council group 5 Star Movement – ​​Seeds of the future of Altamura for the anniversary of Liberation Day.

We still need to call ourselves anti-fascists and be on the right side of history. We need to know how to read the new manifestations of fascism and recognize the violent banality that makes its repetition possible to avoid what happened.

“Lagers can be held anywhere, they can exist. Where a fascism is not necessarily identical to that, a fascism that is a new verb, like the one that the new fascists of Italy love, that “we are not all the same, not all of us have the same rights, some have the rights , others don’t.” Where this verb takes root at the end there is the concentration camp, I know this precisely”.

They are the words of Primo Levi, released in an interview with Rai in the 1970s. Words that must resonate even today. The Constitution – anti-fascist – is based on the equality of all before the law and on the duty to remove obstacles to substantial equality. Human rights and duties of social solidarity. We still need to call ourselves anti-fascists, to be on the right side of history. What happens in Gaza reminds us how even international conventions can be “silenced”; the ferocious and useless repression of protesting students or climate activists, today as in Genoa in 2001, invites us to reflect on the “antibodies” that we have developed to old and new forms of fascism and authoritarianism. The sell-out of the vote and the constantly growing abstentionism are signs of a move away from the right and duty to participate in political life, where Politics is democracy because even the parties have (or should have) a democratic and participatory nature. There is a lot to be done to call ourselves “anti-fascists” beyond labels. The numerous censorships of free voices, yesterday and today, which also manifest themselves with the increasingly heated precariousness of the so-called intellectual professions (with the consequent exclusion from political discourse of those who have no economic or social “means”), are another bad signal. Bad news shouldn’t make us lose hope. There are many people who are committed every day to the defense of common goods, for social justice, for the rights of everyone. We try every day to do our part, always questioning ourselves and continuing to maintain that Italy is a democratic, anti-fascist and work-based Republic. Yesterday fascism was nourished by the indifference and obedience of many. Employees and professionals who did not “dirty their hands” by killing or torturing, but allowed their rights to be trampled on out of laziness, fear or simple inability and lack of will to understand reality. We must remember that evil (and fascism is a manifestation of it) is banal and, therefore, in its banality it can indeed be repeated, but also be avoided if everyone does their part to protect democracy.