And then they say that the left, the “real” left, no longer exists. Of course, you don’t know where to look for it! Yet it is there, visible to everyone, right before your eyes. To be precise, the left «that produces intelligence, solidarity, reasoning» is located on Via di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, in the Esquilino district of Rome. In front of Spin Time, obviously. There, for about ten days, the «best youth» has been at work, a re-edition of the “mud angels” who in 1966 helped Florence resist the devastating flood. Instead of bickering about Ukraine, primaries yes, primaries no, leadership, Elly and Giuseppi, the “broad field” should turn its gaze and take inspiration from that multifaceted coalition set up by the occupiers of Action, the housing movement that in 2013 took possession of the building of the Public Real Estate Fund managed by Investire Sgr. It is there that the true “broad field” has sprouted, bringing together priests, students, associations, radical chic, queer movement: «They are the left».
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You can almost hear the sigh of the writer Elena Stancanelli as she praises the “mud angels” 2026 edition in Repubblica. For a left in continuous identity crisis and always looking for an author, now it is the former occupiers of someone else’s property led by Paolo Perrini and Andrea Alzetta of Action who are the new guiding star. They are the electorate «to whom the PD should turn». With all due respect to the most basic principles of respect for private property.
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There, in Esquilino, there is everything that the PD or “broad field” should be. There are «those who take care of the suburbs, while administrations struggle». And the “legality” that the left has always boasted about since the times of Girotondi and the Purple People? That will be for another time. Now it is time to praise, as the Nobel Prize winner for physics Giorgio Parisi also does, «those who resist and fight inequalities». Spin Time, precisely. A space, Perrini, one of the founders, explained again in Repubblica, that has brought together «different worlds: from the Church to the movements, with everything in between». Schlein and Conte take notes.
