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June 8, 1984 I was returning with my colleagues Francesco Russo, Angelo Tufano and Franco Ebano, by car from a business meeting in Emilia Romagna, when the radio newspaper announced the news that Enrico Berlinguer the night before he had suffered a serious illness during a demonstration in Padua for the European elections.
Their conditions were already defined very serious, a feeling of consternation invaded us. Thus began a week that had to profoundly change political events on the left and in the country.
At dusk it was already understood that he would not do it, in the street, in the bars, they did not talk about anything else, the TV was broadcasting live continuously, updating the situation hour by hour.
I still tremble remembering those moments: in my section of the PCI we embrace desperate, a deep pain, a feeling of bewilderment, Enrico Berlinguer was not only the authorized secretary, the legendary leader who had brought the PCI to the top of the highest consensus in its history, Berlinguer was ourselves, he was within our individual lives .
So after four days, on June 11 he died, leaving an insurmountable void. The day of the funeral, June 13, was an event that darkened the sky: a crowd never seen before, all of Italy went San Juan, this powerful force, made up of people of all stripes from all over the country, the multitudes of l’Unità festivals, those faces of workers, peasants, young people, grandparents and grandmothers, a town that huddled in a painful embrace to its most beloved companion, a trauma like the loss of a son, a brother, a father.
That day all the symbolism of the extraordinary history of that party was shown. powerful me desperate, with red neckerchiefs, flags, banners, tears combined with the awareness of belonging to a great story.
Thus ended with Berlinguer also the PCILet’s say it lasted until 1989, but it was immediately clear that nothing would ever be the same again. The inheritance was too large, the reasons for the crisis were even pre-existing, the heirs were not, or rather there was still a large group, first-rate managers, Ingrao, Tortorella, Natta, Iotti, Napolitano, Chiaromonte, Macaluso, Reichlin, Castellina, Magri and many others, then there were the promising young men, Mussi, D’Alema, Veltroni and the suitor Eye, but it immediately became clear that it would not be easy at all to carry forward the party that Berlinguer had led for more than twelve years, impregnating it with his strong personality, through different stages, not without errors, but with a political and ideal solidity that he had represented. a very strong stability element.
Arrived shortly Alessandro Natta, Achille Occhetto to the secretariat and after an initial phase of ordinary administration, in 1989, coinciding with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, launched a powerful media campaign conventional, Republic and the Corriere della Sera at the head, the so-called “turning point of BologninaWith which through a well-designed bombardment he announced, without any preparation or discussion in the governing bodies, the password “everything changes – the name also changesThus was formalized the end of the PCI, which would formally last until 1991, when after two extraordinary and highly divisive congresses, it was decided to overcome it through the new name PDS, Democratic Left Party, and the simultaneous liberation of the large group of dissidents led by another historical leader Armando Cossutta that gave life to the party of Communist re-foundation.
The party born in January 1921 in Livorno of another split of the Socialist Party, in the context of a historical phase of extraordinary changes of global importance, as a consequence of the The Soviet revolution ended in October 1917 with the seizure of power by the communists led by Lenin, it ended seventy years later, for very different political reasons, although always emblematically in the context of changes of an international nature.
In 2021 that is about to begin, under the sign of ongoing pandemic, which has affected the entire planet and which will still involve many sacrifices and concerns, our country will also discuss this important anniversary so they are already flooding advertisements for books, articles, and lectures to recall the facts.
Among others, the first issue of the prestigious magazine is currently being published Marxist criticism that in a special format, through numerous and important contributions, will return to all aspects of both the birth and especially of the irredeemable suppression of the Italian Communist Party, of the negative consequences that it has determined on the Italian left and for the whole of the country. The magazine can be reserved through the Italian Trade Union Editions site and, if you wish, you can also subscribe in print or online.
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