Neo-fascists on one side, anti-fascists on the other. It's 2025, and the historic clash between students (and others) of opposing factions will take place again on November 1st in Cagliari. For this date, the Blocco Studentesco (the so-called fascists) has called for a rally in the Sardinian capital, calling on "young people from the South and the Islands." The rally had been announced with numerous posters (illegally) posted around the city, including the slogan "Europe will be free"—in English (not the native language).
The initiative was announced at the last minute, even in a note published on the website of the organization close to CasaPound. Thus, here is the reaction of Cagliari's anti-fascists, who are ready to fight. Looking at the situation, there's a risk that the Digos (Special Operations Unit) and the Police Headquarters' Mobile Unit will have quite a bit of work to do on November 1st in Cagliari.
The student block
"We have decided," the students of the Blocco explain, "to mobilize that part of Italy too often left on the margins, forgotten, and mistreated. From the lands of the South, contrary to those who find only sterile words and inaction, we intend to empower Italian youth to reclaim their own space and a future that doesn't involve precarious employment or emigration abroad."
The neo-fascists are taking to the streets, they say, "to assert the voice of young people in schools, universities, and the workplace. Amid crumbling institutions, unpaid internships, depopulation, and a declining birth rate, the Student Bloc wants to confront this society from every angle: from culture to sports, young people need the strength to rebuild an affirmative, voluntary, and courageous political identity."
He also railed against "Ius Scholae" and immigration, which he considered "infamous instruments of ethnic substitution and competition for our youth. We raise our battle cry: Europe will be free. From the heart of the Mediterranean, we demand Europe as our horizon: a new homeland, built from the bottom up and dedicated to building a space free from the shackles of Washington and Moscow. This is our home, not a land of conquest."
The anti-fascists
The Cagliari anti-fascist coordination group is speaking of an invasion. " What we will see this Saturday, November 1st, will be a veritable overseas invasion, called by the local fascists and the continental Blocco Studentesco association. The association, with the participation of other European fascist groups, will stage its own march in the name of the most vulgar racist propaganda, embraced by the right-wing parties of Europe and the United States, chanting 'remigration' to our city, to our land."
The news, the coordination team explains, "arrives at the last minute, as is usual practice, and for this reason we are calling for a necessary counter-demonstration this Saturday, November 1st, with a gathering in Piazza Garibaldi starting at 3 pm."
Then a warning to our "comrades": "We urge you to remain vigilant on the streets of Cagliari in the coming days, and to report any possible threats or attacks to us."
Enrico Fresu