In recent months, we have seen the passing of important comrades, people whose presence, passion, and commitment have left an indelible mark on our lives and our activism. A few weeks after the passing of Gianpiero Bottinelli (Umanità Nova, December 7, 2025), the still-young Claudio Grigolo, a social worker and longtime activist with the Circolo Anarchico Carlo Vanza in Bellinzona, passed away on Monday, January 19, 2026.
A music enthusiast, always torn between Fugazi and Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, his presence made the Circolo a place of conviviality, as well as of documentation, research, protest, construction, and resistance. Mindful of his youthful commitment to environmental organizations, he generously accompanied comrade Marco Camenisch throughout his struggles and imprisonment. An indomitable antimilitarist commitment, which cost him prison, forged his solidarity with draft resisters, conscientious objectors, and deserters. In recent years, thanks in part to his strong professional sensitivity, he had taken to heart the battle against the establishment of a closed "educational" center for minors. Moreover, in the 1990s, he had already been a member of the Committee of the Swiss League for Human Rights - Italian-speaking Switzerland Section, which was active on the prison front and against police repression.
He also occasionally expressed himself in the anarchist press. In an article in the first issue of Voce Libertaria, he wrote: "It therefore appears increasingly urgent to unite the forces of dissent (radically opposed to the bourgeoisie and reformists of all stripes) and further develop a project that gives shape and a voice to those deemed incompatible with the current system of super-exploitation, which continues to forget the essential reasons and necessities for living a dignified life free from all forms of oppression."
But life dramatically shows us that the struggle is not merely political, social, or militant: it is profoundly human. It is made of bonds, trust, sharing, solidarity, but also of absences that weigh heavily and remind us how precious every moment is. These losses should teach us to take nothing for granted. They remind us that relationships must be cultivated, contacts maintained, calls made, mutual respect practiced every day. Every gesture of closeness, however small, becomes a way to honor those who are no longer with us and to strengthen those who remain. Let us always support one another, with sincerity and courage. Let us accept the difficulties, share them, and continue to fight together, keeping alive the values, passions, and ideas of those who have left us. May the memory of their faces, their words, and their actions be a push to persevere, to be more attentive, more united, more human. Their absence does not separate us: it calls us to be stronger, together, in their memory.
Petra - Carlo Vanza Anarchist Circle - Bellinzona
https://umanitanova.org/claudio-grigolo-un-altro-lutto-nel-ticino-libertario/
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Link: (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #4-26 - Claudio Grigolo. Another loss in libertarian Ticino (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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