Today, on the anniversary of April 25th, on the initiative of the “Virgilio Failla” Training School, of the CGIL, of the Auser, of the Anpi, in the presence of the representatives of these organizations and also of the Democratic Party and above all of a large audience, it is A wreath of flowers was placed at the monument of those who fell on 29 May 1921, in Modica, at the hands of the Iblean fascist squads.
In the brief commemoration Giovanni Di Rosa recalled that there is a black thread that unites the deaths of Modica and the province of Syracuse in the black two-year period, 1921-1922, when fascism imposed itself with the truncheon, weapons and violence and the partisans and innocents massacred during the Resistance fought by men and women of all political faiths against Nazi-fascism and when fascism in its death throes was definitively defeated.
The importance of remembering, in particular to the new generations, the historical events which, during the Second World War, led to the defeat of a bloody police regime which had suppressed all freedoms and dissolved political parties and trade unions was underlined; who had persecuted his opponents with prison, confinement and exile, who had killed Giacomo Matteotti and made Antonio Gramsci die in prison.
Resistance and Liberation, thanks to the sacrifice of thousands of men and women, have returned freedom and democracy to Italy and are the founding pact of the Republic and the anti-fascist Constitution.
The current rulers, in particular the heirs of the republic of Salò, not only refuse to recognize the anti-fascist character of the Constitution, but practice policies that distort its spirit, such as measures aimed at muzzling the press and free expression or the constitutional reforms in itinerary to change the parliamentary character of our Charter.
The meeting was enriched and the public was particularly involved by the reading of passages relating to the Liberation. Angela Allegria read the letter of a 23-year-old young man from Ispicia, Antonio Brancati, sent to his parents before he was shot by the Nazi-fascists on 22 March 1944. Antonio Ruta read a passage by Piero Gobetti on fascism, on the temperament of the Italians and on the Liberation .
Finally Silvia Rizza read Antonio Scurati’s monologue on Liberation, censored by Rai and the Government, underlining that censorship contributed to spreading its reading and knowledge. Heterogenesis of ends. The meeting ended with the singing of Bella ciao.
