From Umanità Nova
March 24, 2023
On March 1st, at the age of 74, Tito Pulsinelli passed away. Together with other comrades he was imprisoned and tried on false evidence for the bombs of April 25, '69 at the Milan Fairgrounds, those which were the dress rehearsal for the strategy of tension that culminated in the state massacre in Piazza Fontana on December 12, 1969. After 2 years they were all acquitted. At the trial, in fact, the frameup orchestrated by Commissioner Calabresi collapsed and, in the meantime, the real perpetrators of the attacks (the fascists Freda and Ventura) had been unmasked. On these and other events of that period Paolo Morando published a landmark book in 2019 ("Prima di Piazza Fontana. La prova generale [Before Piazza Fontana. The dress rehearsal]"), as did Clara Mazzanti, co-defendant with Tito, author of "Venga con noi [Come with us]," published by Colibrì . In the 70s and 80s he was active in the wider libertarian movement, collaborating on various publishing initiatives. His, as now publicly revealed by his friend and comrade Claudio Albertani, is the sensational fictional testament of JP Sartre (Sartre, “Il mio testamento politica”, Catania, 1978) in which the French philosopher admitted he was wrong about everything: in reality, the booklet borrowed from part of a Joseph Déjacque text (A bas les chefs). Tito's contributions and inputs in the publishing field were numerous: from the founding of the magazine "Insurrezione" (1977-80) to the suggestion to publish Michele Duval's "Grandezza e decadenza dei seguaci dell’amianto [Grandeur and decadence of the followers of asbestos]," to the articles on the social volcano published together with Albertani in "Counterinformation." At the end of the 70s he left Italy, settling in Mexico and then in Venezuela from where he was a correspondent for various websites. His writings were published in Carmilla, in the first issue of Anarchismo, in Cambia il Mondo, in Forum Free and others, while in Venezuela he edited the selva.org site, publishing articles on South America, the condition of the indigenous peoples, and popular struggles . Tito Pulsinelli was born in Palena, in the province of Chieti, in 1948 and moved to Milan with his family in the mid-1950s. Three years ago he returned to Milan to treat a serious liver disease which unfortunately cut him short. Old comrades remember him as a modest person of great humanity, sensitivity, and intelligence. The last farewell to Tito, communist-anarchist as he liked to call himself, was given before his cremation on March 3.
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