A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #24-26 - Storming the Future. A Look Back at the "Fai Festa" in Carrara (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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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