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Comrades of the emigration…

POTERE OPERARIO, issue 17, year 1970. (When we too emigrated out of hunger). In 25 years the bosses and governments have sent 6,000,000 proletarians out of Italy. We were housed in the “camps” and shacks across all of Europe, our labor was commanded in every language; the French, Germans, and Swiss exploited us… (in Italian)

Don’t mess with our neutrons!

Don’t mess with our neutrons! The November 1995 bulletin of the European Counter-Information Network (ECN) is dedicated to the issue of nuclear tests carried out by the French government in Polynesia. The articles address the health consequences of radiation on the local population, the anti-nuclear protest held in Venice, and the campaign to boycott French products (original document in Italian).

Calusca 3 Bookstore, Padua

On October 27, 1976, the CALUSCA3 Book Cooperative opened in Padua, at 14 Via Belzoni. It housed the bookstore of the same name and the COPDCON (Political Documentation and Counter-Information Center). For several decades, CALUSCA3 served as a hub for alternative communication and cultural production, outside the mainstream commercial distribution circuits. It offered magazines, books, and a wide range of self-produced materials from various cultural, social, and political groups in northeastern Italy and across the country. It was also a key meeting place for movements, fostering dialogue, research, and debate (original document in Italian).

From Print to Digital: Memories in Transition

At the Sherwood Festival, the digital archive of Open Memory was presented along with a preview of the book Restless Papers. The Memory of Movements, featuring co-author Lorenzo Pezzica. “We are the history that transforms the present.” The banner behind the microphones already tells the story of what the Open Memory Study Center is and its purpose. Not a nostalgic look back, but a tool to preserve memory and guide us toward the future. On Tuesday, July 2, the Sherwood Festival hosted a double event focused on the memory of social movements: the unveiling of the Study Center’s latest achievement and the preview of the book Restless Papers (in Italian).