Day: January 24, 2022
Remembering Antonio Gramsci
By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci was born on this day in 1891. We remember his revolutionary life and his contributions to the struggle against capitalism. It’s late at night on Turin’s Via dell’Arcivescovado. A man with a Southern accent shows up at L’Ordine Nuovo’s office, insisting on speaking with the lead editor. For L’Ordine Nuovo is not only the workers’ daily, but also the paper of Antonio Gramsci. Yet the political climate here in Turin at the start of the 1920s is tense — every night, factory workers do shifts on guard duty…