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Live broadcasts, insights, ideas, proposals, appointments: ---- For 
anarchy. The strength and relevance of Malatesta's thought. ---- Errico 
Malatesta, the life and thought of an anarchist who actively traversed 
the birth of the anarchist movement, the workers' and peasants' 
struggles across the two 
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centuries, the 1911 insurrection against the colonial war in Libya, the 
Red Biennium and the advent of fascism.
Often in prison or in exile he was able to combine an inexhaustible 
political commitment with a constant reflection on the struggles he went 
through, in the ever-present perspective of the social revolution.
His approach, despite the indispensable link with his time, manages to 
give us intact suggestions and proposals capable of fueling a lively and 
vital debate even in a time so different from his.

Malatesta's voluntarism settles accounts both with those who believed 
that a story already written should only be supported and with the 
positivism dominant at the time.
Lover of science but critical of scientism, Malatesta knows that truth 
is a process in constant verification, without final destinations: his 
reflection offers us important insights in a time that pays the price of 
capitalist madness, which has put research at the service of profit , 
even at the cost of destroying the planet and those who live on it.

Malatesta supported the need for the specific organization of 
anarchists. Anarchist organization and, therefore, guarantee of freedom 
for those who adhere to it, and prefiguration of libertarian political 
and social relationships. In this he distinguished himself from those 
who, with respect to the movement of workers, believed that trade union 
organizations were sufficient to set social transformation in motion.

His reflection on violence is crucial, necessary for defense, but never 
an instrument of imposition because, due to the necessary coherence 
between means and ends, an imposed revolution denies itself and results 
in the worst of authoritarianism.

His reflection, in constant revisionism of itself, arrives at the 
conception of revolutionary gradualism, i.e. the awareness that the 
insurrectional event, which marks the end of hierarchy and capitalism, 
does not automatically open the doors to a world of free and equal, 
without conflicts.
On the contrary, the insurrection and the consequent rupture of the 
social imaginary are the first, indispensable step for triggering a 
process of experimentation, which, step by step, makes the anarchist 
perspective of self-organization and self-management more concrete.

We talked about this and much more with Davide Turcato, curator of the 
complete works of Errico Malatesta, anticipating some of the themes we 
will talk about at FAT - Corso Palermo 46 - Friday 1 February at 9pm.

Differentiated autonomy between the small Northern League countries and 
the centralism of the PD
The League receives the approval of the differentiated autonomy project 
in parliament, which will inevitably accentuate the already strong gap 
between the richer and poorer regions.
The parliamentary opposition responds by waving the tricolors in defense 
of the centralized state, which decides and dispenses.
Neither of the two prospects appears attractive for those in the north 
as well as in the south who have to deal with the hardship of living in 
a society divided into classes that both the Northern 
League/fascists/centre right and the Democrats and Five Star Movements 
actively defend.
They call it federalism but it is just a mechanism that fuels social 
selfishness. The new law will end up affecting rich regions too, because 
it has the explicit aim of completely dismantling state-run healthcare 
in favor of private healthcare.
We know that neither of the two models will protect the health of all of 
us, especially the poorest, with little money and few social resources.
We started talking about it with Francesco Fricche

Antimilitarist Assembly
Two weeks ago the periodic meeting of anti-militarist groups, assemblies 
and coordinations was held in Maveretico, which discussed the autumn 
struggles and the prospects for the struggle in the coming months
We talked about it with Federico from the Antimilitarist Assembly

January 26th was the "National Day dedicated to the memory and sacrifice 
of the Alpine troops". Established in May 2022, it was celebrated for 
the first time last year "in memory of the heroism demonstrated by the 
army corps in the Battle of Nikolajewka on 26 January 1943", during the 
Second World War. The all too explicit intention is to celebrate the 
adventure of the ARMIR, the Italian expeditionary force sent to Russia 
by Mussolini to support Nazi Germany's aggression against the Soviet Union.
On January 26, one day before the day of remembrance, in which we 
remember the extermination of European Jews and Roma in Nazi camps and 
the racial laws in Italy during the dictatorship, we celebrate the war 
wanted by the fascist government and the patriotic values that justified 
it .
A true state revisionism.
This celebration, which puts national interest and patriotic rhetoric 
back at the centre, as a founding element of modern-day militarism, 
produces an excess of memory to the detriment of history.
On January 26, 1943, Italian and German troops had already lost the war 
on the Russian front. The Alpine troops sent to the frozen plain were 
completely surrounded by Soviet troops. The Battle of Nikolajewka served 
to ensure an escape route for the soldiers. A disastrous escape, in the 
heart of the Russian winter, in which many poor people sent to the front 
for the Duce and the King died.
Human pity for those proletarians sent to the slaughterhouse, a feeling 
shared by many in our country, cannot and must not translate into 
patriotic exaltation of a war of invasion alongside the Nazis.

The Alpine troops have been and are today in the front row of the wars 
in which Italy has participated in recent years. Six months abroad and 
six months in the military control of the cities - operation "safe 
streets" - or in the militarized construction sites of Valsusa.
The circle closes. A fascist battle to celebrate Mussolini's war and to 
relaunch Italy's new imperialist adventures.
January 26 should be a day of mourning. Mourning for the millions of 
civilians who died in that war that bloodied Europe. Mourning because, 
from the ashes of fascism, a government that takes inspiration from that 
era resurrects patriotic rhetoric, the war of conquest, the horrors of 
colonialism.
Let's stop them before it's too late.

Initiatives:

Friday 2 February
For anarchy. The strength and relevance of Malatesta's thought.
9pm at the FAT in Corso Palermo 46
The meeting will be introduced by Davide Turcato, curator of the 
complete works of Errico Malatesta

Thursday 8 February
6pm - salon in via Leoncavallo 23
on the occasion of the district council open on "safety" in the Barrier
we invite to an anti-fascist demonstration
hypocrisy is over: we want social services and not truncheons! The real 
degradation is fascists and the police!
Organize Oltredora Antifascista

Friday 16 February
9pm at FAT
in Corso Palermo 46
Split the atom in four. Against the nuclear fairy tale
Nuclear power, disguised as green energy, entered the agenda of COP 28, 
held in Qatar, one of the petromonarchies of the Arabian Peninsula, as 
clean energy that does not compromise the climate.
The disasters and Chernobyl and Fukushima are not enough to make the 
atomic lobby give up.
The wizards of the atom are trying once again to relegitimize this 
dangerous technology, painting it green and telling us the story of 
"new" and "safe" fourth generation nuclear power.
The meeting will be introduced by Angelo Tartaglia, professor emeritus 
of the Polytechnic of Turin, author of "Splitting the atom in four. 
Against the nuclear fairytale"

Saturday 24 February
Two years after the start of the war in Ukraine
Anti-militarist demonstration
3pm Piazza Castello
With deserters from all wars
Against all armies, against all nationalisms, against all borders

Saturday 2 March
2.30pm Corso Palermo at the corner of Via Sesia
Remove the soldiers from Barriera!
True security is a world without fascists, without police, without 
exploitation. A world of free and equal.
Those who live in the Barrier need free and efficient healthcare, which 
guarantees prevention and treatment for everyone. We need free public 
transport, homes, schools.
Let's put an end to precarious, dangerous, poorly paid jobs: security is 
working much less with good wages for everyone.
Demonstration with speeches, music, information panels and what everyone 
wants to bring to the streets...

Drop by every Tuesday
(A)distro - books, newspapers, documents and... much more
SeriRiot - self-produced benefit lottery screen printing
Come and browse through the books and magazines, the t-shirts and flyers!
Support self-production and information free from the state and the market!
Find out about fights and appointments!
from 6pm to 8pm in Corso Palermo 46

Contacts:

Turin Anarchist Federation
Corso Palermo 46
Meetings - open to interested parties - every Tuesday from 8pm
Contacts:
fai_torino@autistici.org
@senzafrontiere.to/
https://t.me/SenzaFrontiere

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