WE'RE BACK!

"If you assume that there is no hope, you will ensure that there is no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, you will make sure that there is an opportunity to change things."
-Noam Chomsky

With due proportions we believe that the political path that led to the reopening of the Brancaleone is testimony that in our city there is still the possibility of marking some small victory for those who bet and believe in independence. For the basic left that does not want to surrender to nihilism or to minoritarianism devoted to defeat. As is known, the many abandoned spaces that have returned to life in Rome and have been enhanced through the practice of occupation or self-management, have been under attack for years by resolution 140. An idea of ​​short-sighted and legalistic management of the public heritage that also involved dozens of associations representing the fabric of the living and active civil society of the city.

Now, three years later, we can say that the failure of the idea of ​​"reorganization and enhancement" of the public patrimony that underpinned that resolution is under everyone's eyes. Despite this, it is difficult to establish an alternative idea in the public debate of the city. We would like it to be possible to start again from the victory of the reopening of the Brancaleone to open a new season. A judicial victory, but also political and cultural, played on all the grounds: that of mobilization, of social and political dispute, of negotiation with local institutions (and on this we can only point out the coherence and punctuality of the commitments made by the administration of the III Town Hall). However, we are aware that the reopening of the Brancaleone is absolutely a partial result, however significant it may be within the city, which first of all serves us to go back to weaving common discourses, alliances, shared ideas. Nobody will give us nothing and - while new lists of evictions are published in the newspapers - we don't want to find ourselves unprepared to resist but above all we want to build conditions so that new experiences can flourish throughout the city.