Carrara hosted a decentralized festival organized by the Anarchist Federation: a three-day event-from July 10 to 12-spanning the city, the mountains, and the realm of memory. It was a traveling celebration moving between Carrara and Gragnana, featuring excursions, debates, and social gatherings. Rather than being confined to a single square, the festival was spread across the territory, highlighting the ongoing relevance of a movement that, in Carrara, has never been merely a matter of history. The three days were divided between the city and the mountains. Mornings were dedicated to excursions: Saturday saw a tour of the city center, visiting monuments, plaques, historic headquarters, and sites that tell the story of the unbreakable bond between Carrara and anarchism-a living, open-air museum. Sunday took participants to Campocecina, along the trails of the partisan resistance where Carrara's anarchists fought against Nazi-fascism. Anarchist publishing played a major role in the festival, with stalls brimming with books, pamphlets, and other materials. From reissues of classics to new publications on transfeminism, antimilitarism, and the movement's history, it served as a vital hub for exchange and dissemination. The heart of the festival beat in the late afternoon, with debates that drew large, engaged crowds despite the heat. Friday, July 10: The Genoa G8, 25 Years Later. Twenty-five years after the events of July 2001 in Genoa, the festival offered a collective recounting of that experience. It was not an exercise in nostalgia, but an open question: what remains of that movement, and what does it tell us about the struggles of the present and future? Saturday, July 11: Anarchism and Transfeminism. A dialogue between different voices for an essential encounter. This necessary debate centered on bodies, self-determination, and the fight against the patriarchy, while also exploring how anarchism questions and transforms itself through transfeminist practices-and vice versa. Sunday, July 12: the need for antimilitarism. In these times of war and rearmament, we explore experiences of struggle against war and those who arm it-from campaigns against military bases and arms factories to the logistics routes of death.
And then, on all three evenings, there was what anarchists consider not merely a side attraction but the very substance of the event: excellent food, conviviality, self-managed camping, and music featuring local bands *We Love Surf* and *Suonificio Popolare Apuano*, as well as the brilliant Alessio Lega with Guido Baldoni. With self-run kitchens, communal dining, and late-night concerts, it was a truly self-organized festival attended by dozens of people from all over Italy. For the local *Germinal* anarchist group, it was a significant moment of growth-despite the exhaustion that always accompanies such events, which was eased by the festival's success and the smiles of the comrades, the true highlight of these three days. A big thank you to all the comrades who worked so hard to organize the event.
Germinal Group Carrara
https://umanitanova.org/allarrembaggio-del-futuro-fai-festa-a-carrara-un-bilancio/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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