| "Associazione Nazionale dei Partigiani d'Italia" National Association of the Italian Partisans | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | ANPI |
| Formation | 5 April 1945 |
| Type | moral association (nonprofit organization) |
| Purpose/focus | "the valorization of the historical role of the partisan war |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
| Membership | 110,000[1] |
| President | Carlo Smuraglia |
| Website | [1] |
The National association of the Italian Partisans: Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (ANPI), is an association founded by the participants to the Italian resistance against the fascist and the nazist occupation during World War II. The association was born in Rome in 1944[2] while the war in the northern part of Italy was still continuing. The association was constituted as a moral foundation on the 5 April 1945.
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The National Association of the Italian Partisans: “Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia” (ANPI) was costituituted in Rome the 6 June 1944,[2] while the northern part of Italy was still fighting against the Nazists and the puppet state of the Italian Social Republic. The association was created by volunteers that took part to the partisan war in the central regions of the Italian peninsula.
After the fall of the Italian Social Republic the ANPI spread over the country: even in the south of Italy, where the resistance fights were rare but from where many of the partisans that fought in the center-north of Italy, Jugoslavia, Greece, France came from.
On 5 April 1945, the day when the ANPI was constituted as moral foundation, the association represented all the Italian partisans and it was managed by a council where all the different brigades that fought the war were present (Brigate Garibaldi, Ferruccio Parri’s Giustizia e libertà, independent, Brigate Matteotti, Mazzini and catholic partisans groups), but after the first national congress that took place in Rome in 1947, problems arose, due to the very different visions of internal and foreign politics. The intense discussions eventually caused the exit of same partisan groups:
ANPI national congresses are:[3][4][5][6]:
ANPI’s objectives are the valorization of the historical role of the partisan war by mean of researches and the collection of personal memories. The defense against Historical revisionism and the ideal and ethical support to the high values of freedom and democracy expressed in the 1948 Constitution, in which were collected the ideals of the Italian resistance.
I enroll to ANPI because the resistance is not only the memory of the past but an actual fact in present times.—ANPI's artists membership enrollment campaign[8]
Differently from other veterans associations, today can become ANPI members altogether with the categories enlisted in the article 23 of its regulation[9] ("partisans, patriots, soldiers that fought against German soldiers after the armistice", prisoners or deported – during the civil war- for political activities or racial discrimination, imprisoned militaries that did not support the Italian Social Republic), but also all the citizens that, without any distinction of age, will declare and subscribe to be antifascist, in accordance to ANPI regulation.
With the introduction of this new regulation, approved during the at the 14th congress,[10] in 2006; ANPI allowed a generational change of the association members, that, in 2010 counted about 110,000 affiliated [11][12][13]:
In particular, in addition to 10% of “historic partisans” there are 10% of young people between 18 and 30 years, while the majority (60-65%) are people between 35–65 years old.
In three years, between 2006 and 2009, members increased from 83,000 to 110,000,[11] with a great numbers of young antifascists elected to high rank positions at the local and national level.
In June 2010, Dacia Maraini and Concita De Gregorio created a membership enrolment campaign that recruited many artists and intellectuals as testimonials. Among them were Fiorella Mannoia, Mario Monicelli, Neri Marcorè, Simone Cristicchi, Emma Dante, Gigi Proietti, Moni Ovadia, Ugo Gregoretti, Marco Bellocchio, Giorgia, Monica Guerritore, Sabrina Ferilli, Massimo Carlotto, Emma Dante, Roberta Torre, Irene Grandi, Matteo Garrone, Roberto Citran, Giuliano Montaldo, Paolo Sorrentino, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Margherita Hack, Vincenzo Consolo, Marco Paolini, Liliana Cavani, Toni Servillo, Andrea Camilleri, Cristina and Francesca Comencini, Serena Dandini, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Ellekappa, Claudia Mori, Simona Marchini, Fabrizio Gifuni, Nicky Nicolai, Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Michele Placido, Sergio Staino, Lidia Ravera, Nadia Urbinati, Vauro, Lucio Villari[14]
The association is currently structured with local group, district group, council group, provinaicial and regional committees. The headquarters of the association is in Rome, Via degli Scipioni 271. Arrigo Boldrini was the ANPI president from the first congress (1947) until 2006. During the 14th congress the new honorary president Agostino Casali was elected.[6] Raimondo Ricci is the national president and Armando Cossutta is the vice-president.[15]
ANPI monthly publishes a magazine named “Patria Independente” (Independent nation),[16] The magazine focuses on historical-political issues; it contributes to notify events related to the Italian resistance. The director of this magazine since 2009 is Wladimiro Settimelli.
Since 2008, every two years, ANPI organizes its national festival. During the event are organized meetings, debates and musical concerts that focus on anti-fascism, peace and democrazy.[17]
| Year | Title | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | ANPI resistances. Democrazy and antifascism | 20 to 22 June | Gattatico (Reggio Emilia), Museo Cervi | Sito ufficiale |
| 2010 | Italians, by Costitutions | 24th al 27 June[18] | Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana | Sito ufficiale |