Pierre Carniti would have turned 25 today, September 83th. The historic Cisl secretary who passed away in June last year will be remembered by the Fim-Cisl, the metalworkers of the Cisl of which he was general secretary during the autumn cast, with the presentation of his latest book "Passato Prossimo - Memoirs of a trade unionist from 'assault, 1973-1985” (Castelvecchi, 2019) written by Carniti in 2003 and never published.
The appointment is in Rome, at Palazzo Santa Chiave. Franco Bentivogli, Bruno Manghi, Giorgio Benvenuto, Raffaele Morese, Sandro Antoniazzi, Giovanni Avonto, Ada Becchi will participate.
The book “represents a precious document for the memory of a crucial period of the country's recent political and trade union history, which goes from 1973 to 1985, in which significant events followed one another: the reshuffling of the political framework with the appearance of the Communist Party in the area of government, the historic compromise, the birth of the Unitary trade union federation, terrorism, the Fiat crisis, the escalator, the definitive breakdown of trade union unity.
Definitely an important document to read that period through the eyes of one of the leading protagonists of that season”, explains the Fim Cisl in a note.
According to the general secretary of the Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli “Carniti's testimony, one of the major protagonists of those events, sheds new light on a 'next past' whose consequences are evident in today's Italy. A man capable of "challenging the future" without ever resigning to conformity and without a prejudicial fear of change".
