ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Today we have been enrolled in the PCI, a book signed by Chicco Testa and Claudio Velardi with the Preface by Guido Crosetto and the Postfaction by Sergio Scalpelli.
The two authors, former leaders of the PCI, then became prominent figures of the Italian society, in this dense exchange of lively letters and without rhetoric, disincantation and ironic offer the reader a very enjoyable historical essay in epistolary form, in which fifty years of history of the Italian left and our country, “a journey through our youth illusions towards the awareness of the complications of the world”.
The Italian Communist Party was a political entity that has engraved decisively in the Italian history of the second century. Head and Velardi live their militancy in these pages: from the smoky sections of the Seventies to the rooms of the power of the central-left governments.
Among personal anecdotes and unpublished backgrounds on key figures such as Berlinguer and D’Alema, the book sets the myths of the “coerence” and of the “diversity” communist, facing crucial nodes such as the Moro case, the fall of the Wall and Tangentopoli coming to our days and to the current leadership of the left (“If there had remained a nail of hope that the left hand would be better.
Far from being the manifesto of two nostalgics, the book is rather a critical look towards those who today, on the left, still persist in turning back, while politics as life is incessant change and not of course adoration of ashes. “We, dear Claudio”, writes Testa, “we will stand in minority. What’s up to us for defeat. But, if you allow, even what we have freely chosen.”.
As explained by Scalpelli, “Claudio and Chicco tell their story as a story of convinced militancy, crossed by increasing doubts, by self-critical taxes, by moments when the line of the party and its conscience ceased to coincide.”.
Chicco Testa, former MP of the PCI and the PDS, company manager, was president and co-founder of Legambiente and president of the Enel.
Claudio Velardi, former head of the PCI, journalist, founder and editor of the newspaper “Il Riformista”, from 1998 to 2000 was head of the staff of the then president of the Council Massimo D’Alema.
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