In the general political and economic collapse, the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy in 2011 has disappeared from the agenda. No one is talking about it anymore. It seems like a “last year’s event”, an old magazine forgotten at the barber’s. The event has not yet been celebrated, and yet it seems to have disappeared into the past. It could be that the institutions are ashamed and are hoping that the creation of the unified state goes by in silence, that it slides away out of the calendar. Anyway the Italians, if they think about the institutions, they have a vomit reflex and an unstoppable wish to emigrate. To see themselves identified with Italy is a provocation, and an instigation to secession.
Instead, the year 2011 is an opportunity, a unique occasion to experience the History of Italy, not the history of the trio Cavour-Garibaldi- Victor Emmanuel II with Mazzini as the spare wheel and bogus plebiscites that gave legitimacy to the Savoys, but the History of the killings in the South, of the occupations in the north, of the cannons of the rulers against the unarmed peasants who were protesting about the law on milling, about the forced migration of millions of people from Veneto and from the South to the Americas, the only remaining possibility to avoid dying of hunger. The year 2011, can be dedicated to the History of the annexation of the ancient peoples of Italy by the Savoys, of the plundering of the coffers of the occupied States, by the House of Bourbon to the Pontifical State Capital needed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, well known for being ragged-arsed, so as not to declare bankruptcy, to the hundreds of thousands of patriots called “brigands” gunned down by Cialdini with their heads chopped off, photographed and exhibited in the newspapers of the time. Even The Soviet Union at the time of Khrushchev managed to raise the issue of the lies of Stalinism, in Italy, people still delude themselves with the ideas of the Risorgimento and the cry of pain taken up by Victor Emmanuel II. The mafias are the fruit of the occupation of the South, at first they were a physiological phenomenon, with the Savoys they became they became a way of managing power. Garibaldi said: “Here we make Italy or we die” To truly make Italy it’s necessary to start again from its roots and thus “Here we undo Italy or we die.”
The squares of Italy are full of memorial stones celebrating the three wars of independence, the world wars, and some are even celebrating the colonial wars and the civil war of 1945/46. For 150 years we have been at war, even with ourselves, to affirm an identity that we don’t have. We are like Peter Pan’s Never Never Land: “And to think about it – what madness/ it’s a fairy story, it’s just fantasy/ and whoever is wise, whoever is mature knows that/it cannot exist in reality!”, a State that doesn’t exist, considered to be like a source of fodder or kept at a distance with diffidence. A geographic expression that plays host to the three most powerful criminal organisations on the planet, indifferent to forty years of slaughter in which the State was an accomplice or was absent, with hundreds of dead including judges, journalists, politicians, public administrators. A place that is falling to pieces where many Regions can’t wait for a liberating "Break the connections" so as to return to being the Republic of Venice with its thousand years of History, the Republic of Genoa, the State of the Two Sicilies, a legitimate State invaded by force, or annexed to France with part of the Aosta Valley or to Austria with the South Tyrol. These are not hypotheses, but the raw reality. It is necessary to review our past and to forget the “glorious” Risorgimento to remain together in a federation of States, similar to those of pre-Unification days, each with its own History and its own autonomy.