Giovanni Casertano

Our comrafe Giovanni has left us. He was the last comrade of the old guard that we still had among us. A great scholar, he continued to correspond from Naples until late in life, never lacking in his and our work and regularly collaborating with the party’s editorial committee.

    Having said that he disliked "commemorations", we write this to inform his comrades and those who knew him and rejoiced in his vitality, brilliant intelligence and spirit, and loved him.

Mother Ginevra

Our party’s comrades all embrace comrade Alessandro who has lost his mother. Ginevra was not a communist but she approved that her son was a member of the party. She had proletarian origins and instincts and she has always placed herself on the side of the oppressed. On the occasion of party meetings in Turin she willingly opened her house and she did her best to host comrades who came from abroad.

Mauro

With enormous sadness the Party informs all those who knew and loved him of the untimely death of comrade Mauro.

Born and raised in one of Turin’s most proletarian and combative neighborhoods, Le Vallette, from his early teens Mauro proved himself a soldier at 14 years old when he joined in street clashes against the police. He joined the ICP in 1986, and remained in the party for the remainder of his life.

Mauro distinguished himself for his great ability to organize workers, with acute sensitivity in the direction of workers’ struggles in the defense of working conditions. He helped found the COBAS union of railroad train crews.

Generous, intelligent, endowed with a gentle irony and helpfulness to everyone, he was loved by workers and all who knew him.

We all find ourselves more alone now, it is true, and it cannot be otherwise.

We communists reject the theories of religions, fake flowers to embellish the chains that imprison humanity. But from the point of view of material physics we know that Comrade Mauro is not dead. It remains present in the four-dimensional space of events. It is we human beings who perceive time as an inexorable flow from past to future, and from birth to death of every living individual. But this is an illusion, produced by the evolution of the species, suitable for ensuring our survival, but not corresponding to the reality of the world universe. As communists we reject this reduction to personalism and operate, and feel, according to science and class consciousness.

Bourgeois and petty bourgeois slime, who fear wisdom and is inaccessible from it, are steeped in selfish and competitive individualism. They can only conceive of life as an extrinsic and enfifiant of the selfish self. For us communists, true human value is determined by freeing themselves from the self, merging into the community of social man, until we realize ourselves as part of the energy matter of the universe, self-organized stardust.

Mauro participated in this embrace of all our comrades, dead, living and unborn, as he is alive today in the memory and social struggle of all fighters for a liberated social hummanity.

St. Paul stated that Christians were in this world but were not of this world. Mauro was also in this world but not of this world. He lived like all of us in the world of selfishness, greed, the alienation of money, the competition of individuals who like beasts fight to snatch the piece of meat to take to the den called the family. But, unlike St. Paul, the new world we communists do not place in Heaven but on Earth: the world of the affracted humanity, of the social man who realizes and empowers his individuality in the community of humankind. A humanity that does not see in the other an enemy competitor but a brother with whom to joyfully share the fruits of the earth and social labor.

Comrade Mauro participated in this great dream and pressing, urgent, necessary and mature need. And in this he was a man.