2011-05-14

ANPI

ANPI

"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
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 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.

History

The National Association of the Italian Partisans: “Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia” (ANPI) was costituituted in Rome the 6 June, 1944, 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 voluntaries 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 (, Ferruccio Parri’s , independent, , 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:

The congresses

ANPI national congresses are::

  1. Rome, 6-9 December 1947.
  2. Venice, 19-21 March 1949
  3. Rome, 27-29 giugno 1952
  4. Milan, 6-8 April 1956
  5. Turin, 19-21 June 1959
  6. Rome, 14-16 February 1964
  7. Bologna, 18-21 March 1971
  8. Florence, 4-7 November 1976
  9. Genoa, 26-29 March 1981
  10. Milan, 10-13 December 1986
  11. Bologna, 2-5 June 1991
  12. Naples, 28-30 June 1996
  13. Abano Terme (PD), 29-31 March 2001
  14. Chianciano Terme (SI), 24-26 February 2006
  15. Turin, 24-27 March 2011:

Objectives

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.

Members

Differently from other veterans associations, today can become ANPI members altogether with the categories enlisted in the article 23 of its regulation ("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 14º congress, in 2006; ANPI allowed a generational change of the association members, that, in 2010 counted about 110.000 affiliated :

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%) is between 35–65 years old persons.

In three years, between 2006 and 3009 the members increased from 83.000 to 110.000, with a great numbers of young antifascist elected to high rank positions at the local and national level.

In June 2010, Dacia Maraini e ideated a membership enrolment campaign that recruited many artists and intellectual as testimonial. Among them Fiorella Mannoia, Mario Monicelli, Neri Marcorè, Simone Cristicchi, , Gigi Proietti, Moni Ovadia, Ugo Gregoretti, Marco Bellocchio, , Monica Guerritore, Sabrina Ferilli, , , , Irene Grandi, Matteo Garrone, , Giuliano Montaldo, Paolo Sorrentino, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Margherita Hack, Vincenzo Consolo, Marco Paolini, Liliana Cavani, Toni Servillo, Andrea Camilleri, Cristina e Francesca Comencini, , , , Claudia Mori, , , , Dario Fo e Franca Rame, Michele Placido, , Lidia Ravera, , Vauro,

Structure

The association is currently structured with local group, district group, council group, provinaicial and regional committees. The headquarte of the association is in Rome, Via degli Scipioni 271. was the ANPI president since the first congress (1947) until 2006. During the 14th congress has been elected the new honorary president Agostino Casali. is the national president and Armando Cossutta is the vice-president.

Patria Indipendente

ANPI monthly publishes a magazine named “Patria Independente” (Independent nation), The magazine focus on historical-political issues; it contributes to notify events related to the Italian resistance. The director of this magazine since 2009 is Wladimiro Settimelli.

ANPI National Festival

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.

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