"Per gusto e per diletto": Claudio Velardi

📣 Fifth appointment of the series with Claudio Velardi, co-author with Chicco Testa of the book "We Were Members of the PCI" published by Liberilibri, interviewed by Maddalena Tulanti.

📕 The PCI, the Italian Communist Party, was a political entity that had a decisive impact on Italian history in the second half of the twentieth century. In a lively and non-ritorical exchange of letters, two former PCI leaders, who later became prominent figures in Italian society, Chicco Testa and Claudio Velardi, reflect on their activism: from the smoky party sections of the 1970s to the corridors of power in center-left governments. Through personal anecdotes and unprecedented behind-the-scenes accounts of key figures like Berlinguer and D’Alema, the book debunks the myths of "coherence" and "communist diversity," addressing crucial issues such as the Moro case, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Tangentopoli, extending to the present day and the current leadership of the left.
In this dense, disillusioned, and ironic correspondence, which transforms into a highly enjoyable historical essay in epistolary form, Testa and Velardi retrace fifty years of the Italian left's history and of our country.
It is certainly not the manifesto of two nostalgics, but rather a potential, healthy vaccine for those who still (and they are not few…) stubbornly walk with their heads turned backward, forgetting that politics, like life, is constant change, not the adoration of ashes.

🔎 Claudio Velardi (1954), former PCI leader, journalist, founder and director of the newspaper «Il Riformista», was the chief of staff for then Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema from 1998 to 2000.

⏰ The event will take place on Thursday, July 16, at 6:30 PM.

👉 At the MAAC Museum - “Rita Santoro Mastantuono” Poetry Garden - Via Enrico de Nicola, No. 1, Ceglie Messapica.
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