Old petty bourgeoisie, no matter how small you are[...]---- Always ready to crush the hands of those struggling in a grave, always ready to lick the bones of the richest and his dogs. ---- (Claudio Lolli, "Borghesia" 1972) ---- AT THE BOARDING OF APRIL 25 ---- A MEMORY THAT CANNOT BE SHARED ---- La Russa, President of the Senate, declared that April 25th should be the day of pacification between the fascists of the RSI and the partisans .
The Resistance was an anomaly in Italian history. A boil that was immediately seen as a threat by the ruling and dominant classes.Italy, as is well known, has not had a revolution in its unified history. The Risorgimento saw the participation of a committed intellectual elite, but that had little impact on the final outcome. The working classes never integrated into the state, and the socialist movements, protagonists of enormous mass participation in the 19th and 20th centuries, were never considered credible, even when they conquered administrations. In fact, fascism took care of violently cleansing all left-wing administrations with the approval of the ruling classes and the monarchy, who handed them the country as a reward.
When, after twenty years of dictatorship and class oppression, fascism entered the disastrous Second World War, the monarchy and its allies planned a double coup d'état and then surrendered to the Allied troops.
Their plan was for a regime without Mussolini, but they had not reckoned with Nazi Germany, which had already planned to invade the country and punish the traitors.
The unprecedented situation presented two Italies: the southern one, headed by the monarchy responsible for handing power to fascism, and the northern one, with a criminal and bloodthirsty government that served as the Nazis' shoe-shiner.
In this configuration, a new phenomenon emerged: the resistance, in which "legality" was autonomously generated by its participants.
This is not the place to recount even the briefest outlines of the Italian resistance; for more information, see the now vast bibliography.
But one fundamental aspect must be emphasized: that is, the fact that the Resistance had within itself, above all, a great need for social redemption.[1]
And it is precisely this aspect, beyond the rhetoric, the heroic deeds, the glorious adventures, that has always terrified the ruling classes.
There is nothing to be done, a part of this country has not only never accepted the values of the Resistance, but not even the (timidly social democratic, but certainly much more advanced than the Constitutions obtained by Japan and Germany) Constitutional ones.
For this reason, every 25th April the wound of the only class defeat suffered by the bosses since the birth of the Italian nation is reopened for them.
But when we speak of "them" we must not only think of the fascists, the right and their press. They are natural and unpresentable enemies even for the good bourgeoisie.
The most dangerous ones, the true mockers and gravediggers of the Resistance are the members of the liberal edema (after all, fascism would not have existed without liberals). The owners of this country's media circus, the self-righteous, cheapskates.
For them, the best strategy is not to directly attack the Resistance, but to make a fuss about it, to belittle it, pretending to defend it.
This is how they invent a lie like that of the "Jewish Brigade", a minority group that fought under the aegis of the English, which never, and I repeat never, in the previous 20 years, was ever thought to have been significant.[2]
THEY ARE NOT EQUAL
Until recently, even if they had brought their own flags, they would probably have been ignored. But for some time now, it's no longer about the "Jewish Brigade," but about people taking to the streets with Israeli flags. And here's where things change. If until now, the protests were rightly limited to boos, now, with a genocide underway and the aggression against Lebanon, the West Bank, Yemen, Israel, and naval piracy, showing up on the 25th with the flag of a criminal state, the situation takes on a slightly different aspect.
With those flags (photos of banners with Donald Trump and the Shah have even been seen), not only should one not enter a square on April 25th, but not even look out.
All hell breaks loose! The protests, completely harmless and peaceful (did you also want to be offered a coffee?), have obviously turned into "anti-Semitism." Now, we need to speak clearly, because it should also be time to put a stop to it. That fascists, rotten bourgeois, deniers of the Gaza extermination, come and call anyone who remembers the liberation struggle anti-Semitic is something that deserves far more than the very timid replies we are witnessing.
Carrying the flags of Israel, which founded its own state on the exploitation of the Shoah[3], in this precise historical period would be as if in the 1930s we had shown up at a demonstration in France with the flags of the Third Reich, no more, no less.
DIVISIVE IS BEAUTIFUL
"Words are important" shouted Nanni Moretti in "Palombella Rossa" to a journalist naturally immersed in the new language of the then nascent ordoliberalism.[4]
Today the situation is much worse. The so-called "linguistic turn" has become an integral part of the ordoliberal system, often producing insane pleasantries. But also building an imaginary made of "resilience" and "bipartisanship".
Even to the naked eye it is immediately visible how these expressions are in contrast with "Resistance" and "partisan" and together with these I would also put "ideological", a word accused as the cesspool of all the evils of the world.
But as it happens, a strongly critical ideology towards the system of capital, a clearly anti-fascist position and the refusal to sit by and wait or "resiliere", were the fundamental elements of the fight against Nazism. They are the basis that produced the attempt to give Italy a Constitution, at least on paper, progressive and that even led the constituents to limit the arbitrariness of private property.
The Resistance has been the primary target of the ruling classes since the outbreak of the Cold War, and it took the youth of 1960 and the fall of the Tambroni government to restore it to its former status as the only possible memory of the Republic.
But since the 1980s, the attack has resumed, this time not just from the Christian Democrats or the neo-fascist right. But from far more powerful forces, owners of newspapers, financial institutions, and then directly managing public affairs.
Thus, April 25th is the litmus test of the normalization and closure of Resistance values.
"A celebration for all," fascism as a kind of vicious bullying, not the greatest and most impressive class reaction of the 20th century. It really should be said: divisive is beautiful.
THE INNOCENT SHOOTER
This year, while the press, now ready to be completely flushed down the toilet, was crying anti-Semitism over the (I repeat: justified) expulsion of pro-Israeli fascists and various provocateurs from the march, a young member of the Jewish community felt compelled to shoot two protesters.
This time, alas, there were no anarchists to blame, as is the usual practice in our country's history, but the identity of the attacker quickly became clear.
Then, as the now-no-longer-young Matteo Renzi said, "we're changing direction," and in the newspapers of the "anti-fascist, but not too much, upper-middle-class," a flurry of comments appeared aimed at downplaying the attack's significance ("they were harmless pellets," too bad the two injured didn't notice), or even justifying it by citing the rise in "anti-Semitism" (Pieluigi Battista in the Corriere). Indeed, the well-known and self-declared agent in the pay of the CIA[5]and now a self-confessed Zionist (and therefore paid by the Mossad[6], Giuliano Ferrara, in a post on X declares that he supports the attacker and gives him maximum solidarity. Just think for a moment what would have happened if the roles had been reversed.
Far from divisive!
APRIL 25 AND AROUND
It's clear that the Resistance was a complex period, but above all, one that was extremely difficult for the ruling classes.
This was true from the very beginning. Just think of the turbulent relations with the Allies, a quid pro quo never entirely welcomed by the Anglo-Americans, given that it was a temporary convergence of interests that, on the one hand, were exclusively military, while on the other, political.
That desire for revolution, social conquest, and gender emancipation (later pushed back into the long pre-1968 stagnation) was certainly not a pleasant prospect for those who, with Mussolini gone, would have welcomed an authoritarian, avowedly anti-communist government.
This is why the celebrations of Liberation cannot be for "everyone," and never will be.
AUTO-DA-FE
In recent years, a notable youthful protagonism has resurfaced (though "generational" interpretations of social movements, despite having an irrefutable grain of truthand who should mobilize if not those with the strength and vision to do so?are often subsumed by the perspective of a clash between young and old, replacing that between classes). This protest is so self-evident that only minds clouded by propaganda could fail to see it. Israel is the new Third Reich, but unlike the latter, it doesn't hide the slaughter, but exalts it, recalls it, and, by inverting reality, behaves as if it were a victim.
Europe, just like in the 1930s, is on the side of the executioner, of genocide, and anti-Judaism has been converted into anti-Islamism.
Today's anti-fascists are despicably labeled "Propal." And like yesterday, we stand at the window watching the strongest army in the world level one civilization after another. In Italy, a law will be passed that will equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, making everyone liable to criminal charges.
It is not an upside-down world, it is exactly the same world.
One aspect, however, is striking in the Italian debate, so to speak, and that is the conversion[7]of part of the values of progressivism, on the one hand to the most unbridled liberalism and on the other to a sort of violent twisting of the same
"Enlightenment" values.[8]
This twist is clearly visible in the context of the Gaza genocide, which has among its supporters not only the right (normally anti-Semitic, but fiercely pro-Israel) but a segment of secular intellectuals, often belonging to the former "extra-parliamentary left"[9], who declare themselves Zionists precisely because of the defense of Western values which, in Italy, they fought in the name of socialism. A socialism, evidently cloaked in suprematism and racism.
A few days ago a group of these intellectuals signed a document (which we could define as purely Calogerian) and sent it to the most denialist newspaper around[10].
There is the historian of reference for autonomy (whose interesting books published by DeriveApprodi I have also read[11]), a terrorist from Prima Linea[12]and a very important historian of National Socialism.[13]
All of them started, in their youth, from positions of left-wing criticism of the PCI and for this reason, some of them were even unjustly detained.
They are intellectuals who, among other things, have argued, and rightly so, that the Calogero theorem criminalised an entire generation.
But however much democracy was stretched in that period, even with all the forcing and violations involved, that situation is not even remotely comparable to Israeli apartheid.
Perhaps, probably, guarantees can only be claimed if one is "Western" (whatever that word means).
These intellectuals, having become pro-Zionist extremists, have followed a path that today leads them, in turn, to turn all the Gaza protesters into Hamas terrorists and even to support an exterminationist regime.
I'd say they not only bypassed Calogero but even doubled him.
THE END IS KNOWN
April 25th is therefore instrumentally attacked from many different sides, because its legacy is uncomfortable for everyone.
The active memory of that choice forces us to rethink today and forces us to take a position in an increasingly complex and multipolar world where we must accept the lessons of other worlds and other countries, trying to understand their diversity and stratification.[14]Otherwise that date risks becoming the celebration of a military victory for the West, good to be used against its own values, something that the West (often the Killer West) has demonstrated it knows how to do very well.
[1]The reference is always, after 35 years, to the fundamental work of C. Pavone, A Civil War. Historical Essay on Morality in the Resistance , Turin, Bollati Boringhieri, 1991 (and subsequent editions).
[2]A. Fazolo, The Jewish Brigade. A "Controversial" History , from 1944 to Today Le Rocce, 2026.
[3]See Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: The Exploitation of Jewish Suffering , Rizzoli, 2002.
[4]Nanni Moretti "Palombella Rossa" (1989). The bibliography on ordoliberalism is vast, but little known, given that even today we continue to speak of "neoliberalism" meaning a form of classical Smithian liberalism. I refer to a text that I consider fundamental: P. Dardot, C. Laval, The New Reason of the World. Critique of neoliberal rationality , DeriveApprodi, 2013 (and subsequent editions).
[5]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yX-0E1-CVTI
[6]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkHHUqwfZGg where he also declares himself a denier.
[7]Although in the opinion of the writer the term "conversion" is not very convincing, this aspect deserves a much deeper reflection than these few lines.
[8]One can only refer to M. Horkheimer, TW Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment , Einaudi, 1947-2010.
[9]For example, the writer Erri De Luca.
[10]The newspaper is "Il Riformista" a sort of "progressive" "Volkische Beobachter". The document is this https://www.ilriformista.it/lintifada-globale-non-in-nostro-nome-lappello-contro-la-vulgata-anti-israele-in-occidente-512413/
[11]L. Caminiti, Gli Autonomi , 3 vol., DeriveApprodi, 2007.
[12]https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Galmozzi
[13]https://www.storialavoro.it/chi-siamo/i-nostri-soci/brunello-mantelli
[14]For these topics see the beautiful work by A. Colombo, The Suicide of Peace. Why the Liberal International Order Has Failed (1989-2024) , Cortina, 2025.
Andrea Bellucci
https://www.ucadi.org/2026/05/23/i-pirati-della-memoria/
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