Comitatus pro Libertatibus explained

The Freedom Committees (officially, in Latin, Latin: '''Comitatus pro libertatibus'''; in Italian Italian: Comitati per le Libertà) are a transnational association dedicated to the diffusion of the principles of liberalism and libertarianism.[1]

Story

The "Committees for Freedoms" were founded in 1997 on the initiative of the Russian writer Vladimir Bukovsky, the French historian Stéphane Courtois and the Italian writer and journalist Dario Fertilio[2] [3] as a federally-based international movement to defend and spread the culture of freedoms.

In the early years, the committees worked for the organization of various conferences, for example on October, 13th 1997 in honor of Edgardo Sogno in Turin.[4]

In 2001 the General Assembly held in Florence elected Vladimir Bukovsky as President-General of the Committees.[5] Another assembly took place in Rome from March, 1st to March, 3rd 2003.

Memento Gulag

The Committees for Freedoms organized every year "Memento Gulag", a day of international studies[2] on the repression and crimes of communist regimes, in particular Soviet totalitarianism. The workshop is always held on the same date, chosen for its symbolic value: November 7,[1] the day of the beginning of the October Revolution according to the Gregorian calendar.[6]

Starting in 2003 the international workshop was held in various European towns:

The workshop showed the presence of the President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera[16] (on two occasion) and the President of the German (Bundestag) Norbert Lammert,[17] of the former E.U. Commissioner and former Foreign Minister of Latvia Sandra Kalniete and of the President of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu.[18]

In 2017 Dario Fertilio complained the limited interest to the event in recent years.[19] In 2019, right after the death of Bukovskij, the themes of the workshop were reprised again on a conference on November 7 at the Senato della Repubblica organized under the patronage of Italian center-right MPs.[20]

References

  1. Philip . Boobbyer . The Slavonic and East European Review . 87. 3 . July 2009. 484 . 40650408 .
  2. News: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. F. Steiner Verlag. 271. 56. 2008. German. Wladislaw. Hedeler.
  3. News: Teste a pera e teste a mela. Una favola su Destra e Sinistra. Dario Fertilio. Rubbettino Editore. 2006. Rubbettino Editore . 978-88-498-0092-0.
  4. Book: 2000 . Nuova storia contemporanea . Istituto nazionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione in Italia-->,Luni editrice. 4 .
  5. News: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, gatto randagio. Marina. Alberghini. Mursia. 2009. Mursia . 9788842536581.
  6. Web site: Una giornata della memoria per le vittime dei Gulag. https://web.archive.org/web/20160106123523/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/marzo/02/Una_giornata_della_memoria_per_co_0_030302359.shtml . 6 January 2016. Corriere della Sera. 2 March 2003. 24 November 2012.
  7. Web site: Bukovski: togliete falce e martello dalle t-shirt . Alessandra. Nucci. Tempi.it. 6 March 2003. 16 February 2013.
  8. Book: Italia contemporanea . 2004. Istituto nazionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione in Italia . 234-237 . 257. 9788843032334. 8 December 2012.
  9. Book: 2004 . Chronicles, Volume 28 . Chronicles. 28 . Rockford Institute. 25 June 2013.
  10. Book: 2005 . Anuarul Institutului de Istorie "A.D. Xenopol.", Volume 42 . Anuarul Institutului de Istorie "A.D. Xenopol." . . 42 . 817. ro. 8 December 2012.
  11. Web site: en, ru, fr, de. Memento Gulag. 4 December 2012. Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului şi al Rezistenţei.
  12. News: La martinella: 2005-2006. Marcello Pera. Rubbettino Editore. 2006. Rubbettino . 978-88-498-1517-7. (consultabile anche online)
  13. Book: Gulag. Che cosa resta di quella tragedia. Il Diario di Repubblica. La Repubblica. 10 November 2006. 57.
  14. Web site: Memento Gulag 2009 a Trieste. 6 November 2009. 30 November 2012. dead. 11 January 2013. https://archive.today/20130111185625/http://www.litaliano.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=993&Itemid=266.
  15. Web site: Dario Fertilio. Memento Gulag 2009 a Trieste. L'Italiano. 6 November 2009. 30 November 2012. dead. 11 January 2013. https://archive.today/20130111185625/http://www.litaliano.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=993&Itemid=266.
  16. Web site: Senato. Pera: favorevole all'istituzione di una giornata per la memoria delle vittime del comunismo. RaiNews24. 8 November 2003. 1 December 2012.
  17. Web site: Memento Gulag. Memento oggi. Senato.it. 8 November 2005. 26 November 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223450/http://www.senato.it/l14presidente/21572/21575/68313/composizioneattopresidente.htm. 2 December 2013.
  18. Web site: Intervento dell' ex-presidente della Moldavia Mihai Ghimpu in occasione del Memento Gulag 2010.. https://web.archive.org/web/20131001115038/http://portal.moldpres.md/default.asp?Lang=en . 1 October 2013 .
  19. News: La Rivoluzione si celebra, per i gulag soltanto l'oblio. Il Giornale. italian. 18 January 2022. 6 November 2017 . Dario . Fertilio.
  20. Web site: Presentazione dell'appello per una Norimberga del comunismo. Radio Radicale. 9 November 2019. 18 January 2022. italian.

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