Starting with vice president Ghezzi and the graphic novel on Giacomo Matteotti
Legnano – On Saturday 15 June the stands of the various sections of the Anpi Alto Milanese open in the afternoon at the Pertini social centre, which sees the internal room packed to listen to the opening speech of Carlo GhezziDeputy Vice President of Anpi, the National Association of Partisans of Italy “Which turns eighty, well-behaved, growing, becoming more and more rooted and acquiring prestige and authority, closing the membership on April 25th with 153 thousand members, the highest share recorded in the twenty-first century”.
With him at the table the president of the Legnano section and of the provincial one of Milan Primo Minelli which explains the reasons for this first celebration (here is our article), and then gave the floor to the mayor of Legnano, Lorenzo Radicewhich links the initiative to the hundred years of Legnano city “A journey made up of many moments in which we stop to think about what our past was. It is important to reiterate some concepts, especially when we see, as in recent days, young people celebrating by saluting the Duce or even praising Hitler. It means that the germ, the Beast as Bersani said at the commemoration of the Tosi deportees, is always present and therefore the exercise, the work we do is to continue to keep alive not only the antibodies but the values, the principles that we must then have the strength to actualize in everyday life”.
Gianni Zurettiof the Anpi of Cerro Maggiore, introduced the presentation of the book United in the same struggle, memories of Giacomo Matteottiwith drawings by Thomas Cato and the introduction of the brother Stephen.
The volume, published by the publishing house People by Busto Arsizio in the Tracce series, tells us about a Matteotti who, by dint of being “Elected as a hero, as a lay saint, as a martyr, the votive dimension of his memory risked overshadowing the main traits of his personality and his political vision”.
Matteotti’s memory “It comes to us today frozen at the moment of his death, told as the supreme sacrifice, as the event that should have warned everyone”.
Instead, the events that should have warned “They were precisely those that Matteotti denounced, in the way he did it, from the parliamentary halls, on the strength of the facts, without indulging in rhetoric”.
Giacomo Matteotti and his wife Velia Tittathey are the ones who are united “in any struggle” as they wrote to each other on the eve of the wedding.
“A fight that was able to unite Giacomo (secular and socialist) with Velia (observant Catholic) with his older brother Matteo Matteotti, Filippo Turati and Anna Kuliscioff. A fight that we must keep alive with all the tools we have, even today, one hundred years after the murder of the first anti-fascist.”
The evening then continued with the rock concert dedicated to the younger ones, unfortunately moved to the internal room of the Pertini due to adverse weather conditions.
Gigi Marinoni
Gigi Marinoni
He has worked for years in the publishing and information field. He directed series and musical magazines. He collaborates with the bookshop/publisher La Memoria del Mondo of Magenta. Passionate about history, he follows what happens in the area with pleasure.
