Ugo Sposetti in Ferrara for the “Margine di Resistenza” exhibition

Memory understood not as a nostalgic look at the past, but rather as a starting block for building the continuum of a political and social history: this is the theme of today’s meeting Thursday 16 May at 6pm at the Circolo Acli in Pontelagoscuro, in Corso del Popolo 109, first appointment of the Margine di Resistenza event organized by the Editorial Events Consortium and promoted by the L’Approdo Foundation.

A meeting that takes inspiration from the book “Memoria rossa” edited by Sergio Gnudi (La Carmelina), a collection of images, documents and memories of the PCI of Pontelagoscuro, moderated and introduced by the former senator Ugo Sposetti.

“A book that I read with pleasure – introduces the former treasurer of the DS – this one which tells of significant memories collected, which allow us to better understand what the Italian communist party was. International relations certainly, but first of all strong roots in Italian society, with the promotion of the cultural, civil and social growth of the territory and its inhabitants. It is enough to look at the Pontelagoscuro area itself in the Sixties and Seventies and connect it to that of today, to observe the change: the Marche community that moves from its territory of origin to deal with the closed mines, two completely different communities in terms of history, culture and formation – that of Ferrara and that of the Marche – which integrate to such an extent that the list representatives rejoice when, at the 1974 polling station on the occasion of the popular referendum on divorce, the percentage of voters reaches 60%. This is the perfect example of a community so integrated as to also encourage civil growth and electoral behavior, thanks to young people who are committed to the growth of the society in which they found themselves living.”

Photographs that testify to the construction of a community: the enthusiasm, the holidays, the Festa dell’Unità, two workers who, having finished their five o’clock shift, start preparing the equipment for the holidays, demonstrate what the PCI represented in many parts of Italy. And even if the nomenclature no longer corresponds to the current one, it is necessary to preserve its values ​​through memories, precisely memories. One of the objectives pursued by the foundations, which have the physical and spiritual role of protecting the past for the purposes of study and testimony: “Act of approximately eighteen years ago – concludes Sposetti – the foundations have saved the documentary, archival and artistic part of a creed political, even in the most remote areas of Italy. The headquarters of the foundations are places of discussion, exchange of ideas and initiatives, real cultural resources for the Italian left”.

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