We have arrived at it: the blame for the Marcinelle disaster, on August 8, 1956, is fascism. The fire in the Bois du Cazier coal mine, triggered by the combustion of high-pressure oil, 71 years later is the new frontier of the international antifascist movement. The images of the turned backs of the red scarves, signed by Cgil and the Belgian union Fgtb, during the speech by the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, who was reading the speech of the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, and that of the Vice President of the European Parliament, Antonella Sberna, have gone around the continent. Maurizio Landini, secretary of the red union, thus condemned the words of the Fdi MEP, Carlo Fidanza. “Guilty” of having recounted the story in detail. “To make people know it exists, he has to speak badly of the Cgil, I think he got a sunstroke. Because the Cgil never turns the other way, at no time, especially out of respect for our President of the Republic.”
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Fidanza went on the counteroffensive. From his own social channels, he shows, frame by frame, the scenes broadcast on Saturday. The Cgil left the paternity of the gesture to the Belgian comrades, who proudly claimed the turned backs, but the reality is different. Fidanza shows some testimonies. Maurizio Quartini, a university professor at UniBs, says he was in the main square of the commemoration. Near him were Italian Cgil members, “during La Russa’s reading they turned around showing their backs to the stage,” with someone who allegedly sang Bella ciao. The city councilor of Bedizzole, Daniela Armanini, recounts the red scarves “with both logos of the two unions,” and also two ladies “thought it appropriate to insult me.” In conclusion, the councilor of Leno, Alessandro Martinelli, told of a person “Italian, who had a tattoo in Italian.” This last one “incited the people around her to turn their backs” on the President of the Senate.
The Fratelli d’Italia MP continues. He shows Landini’s speech at the lunch organized by the Fgtb union in which the Cgil members participated. He thanks the mayor of Charleroi (we will return to this) for having “remembered that antifascism is a fundamental value.” Also applauding him was the PD senator Michele Fina. Despite the distances taken by the Cgil from the protest at the Marcinelle ceremony, the antifascist signature remains on the Belgium-Italy axis. At this point, Fidanza targets “the new idol of the Italian left,” namely the socialist mayor of Charleroi, Thomas Dermine.
The latter claimed to have taken it out on La Russa and the others from Fdi because they are “representatives of a far-right party.”
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The watchword? “For a change, it’s ‘antifascism’ because obviously even the dead of 1956 in Marcinelle would be ‘the fault of fascism’.” A few weeks ago, the mayor prevented “the Ugl from placing its own plaque on the wall of memory.” The hatred of these political interpreters forgets that the Italo-Belgian protocol – “Men against coal” – was introduced in 1946 by the De Gasperi government. But above all, it forgets that “the establishment of August 8 as the ‘National Day of the Sacrifice of Italian Labor in the World’ is due to Mirko Tremaglia, a right-wing man and former RSI fighter, who dedicated his life to Italians abroad.” Antifascism, by turning its back on La Russa, extinguishes the memory of the 262 fallen of Marcinelle. Of those 136 Italians who, seeking the future in the throat of the earth made of coal, found eternal rest.
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