April 6, 1945. Fascism behind us, an Italy to rebuild. The referendum between Monarchy and Republic in progress, the “most beautiful Constitution in the world” to be written, and a civil war that had to be left behind. Surely the thoughts were different and multiple, but who knows how Italians imagined the Nation in 2026. Science fiction and dystopia had already landed in our latitudes. Think of Ippolito Nievo and his Philosophical History of Future Centuries, but also Emilio Salgari, Yambo, and the experiments of Massimo Bontempelli, Guido Gozzano, and Ercole Luigi Morselli. Perhaps antifascism imagined floating cities, flying machines, and, in dreams, Soviet cosmism.
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HEIRS
July 11, 2026. We have passed 81 years since those days and antifascism, made of paper, has produced its umpteenth certificate. No, imagination flopped again this time. The heirs of the partisans have struck again. We have to go to Rivoli, at the gates of Turin, to tell you about the new blunder, after that of “More Books More Free,” of the resistants of the 2000s. We have, alas, seen many declarations of antifascism for the occupation of public land over the years, but hold on tight. Here a citizen was filling out online, as reported by TorinoCronaca, the procedure for submitting an application to obtain a permit to carry out a move. Signature on one side, clause on the other, and at some point appears “the declaration of adherence to the values of antifascism.”
To move one’s furniture, therefore, one must first “repudiate Fascism and Nazism” and “adhere” to the “Republican Constitution, that is to the values of freedom, democracy, equality, peace, social justice, and respect for every human right.” Really, the gentlemen just wanted to move the cupboard, the bedroom, and the fridge. So be it. And the mayor? Alessandro Errigo, a member of the PD, says he enforced the constitutional charter. “I know it seems absurd,” he says, “such a declaration for a move and perhaps, only in that case, the procedure should be reviewed, but it all originated to guarantee freedom of expression that must be guaranteed during demonstrations.” But this is the job, Zalone teaches us. Excluding, or rather imposing barriers made of stamped paperwork, do we really become free as article 21 of the Constitution would want?
The FdI city councilor, Federico Depetris, helps us reconstruct the story. “The declaration dates back to 2018, but now in 2026 it has been extended to every request for a municipal hall, no matter if the application comes from a private citizen or companies.” Depetris, going deeper, highlights a rather peculiar aspect.
“The administration, once the application is signed, reserves the possibility of ‘subsequent monitoring after signing’ to check the consistency between what is declared and the activities actually carried out.” We are at the psychopolice. “What will they do? Will they give the Stasi manual to the local police? Will the agents be sent to follow the various conferences?” We are facing the parody of the Resistance, or rather we are in the presence of the legacy of Soviet paranoias.
They have brandished antifascism to prevent Passaggio al Bosco from presenting their books, in Verona it is needed to obtain the driveway permit, in Piacenza for municipal halls they thought of the antifascist stamp. In Parma, in 2018 during the time of mayor Federico Pizzarotti, if you wanted to work with the Municipality you had to “repudiate Fascism and xenophobia” and certify “not to advocate violence as a form of political struggle.” An endless list, made of hallucinations and requests for acts of faith. No, cars still don’t fly, the only thing soaring in the sky are the controversies raised by antifascism.
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