Political commitment

The circumstances related to the conflict of 1915-18, and to the tumultuous post-war period, had a significant impact on Sardinia. Thanks to the recruitment on a territorial basis, a hundred thousand island callers had the opportunity to experience an atrocious, alienating, but formative story as a community.

Upon their return, the former fighters organized themselves first in movement, and then in political formation, giving rise to the Sardinian Action Party. The intervention of fascism (which was also born from the activism of former combatants) blocked this interesting experience of autonomist regionalism in the bud. Some were forced to silence like Cammillo Bellieni, others incorporated into the so-called Sardinian fascism like Paolo Pili, others, like Lussu, subject to confinement, preferred to flee abroad.

In this climate, the personal drama of the 'emigrant' Antonio Gramsci (also a Sardinian as a young man) takes place, who is imprisoned and left almost to die in prison. The regime is holding the island in its grip. When, in the mid-thirties, Lussu from Paris gathered the Sardinians to fight in Spain, only Dino Giacobbe and very few others responded. Culture slows down, but it doesn't give up. There is a renewed interest in history with Raimondo Carta Raspi and the Sardinian theorist Bellieni himself. Egidio Pilia deals with literature in a historical key, while the writers Pietro Casu, Giovanni Antonio Mura, Lino Masala Lobina, Filiberto Farci, Filippo Addis stand out around the magazine “Il Nuraghe”.

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20/3/2025 - 10:17