On 17th august ANPI United Kingdom & Ireland and INCA United Kingdom we organised the first tour of the exhibition “Matteotti, voice of the century” at the Charing Cross Library in London.
Alfio Bernabei, the curator of the exhibition, was excellent in explaining how Italian MP Giacomo Matteotti was a key figure of the antifascist movement in the early 1920s. Matteottti understood what risk fascism posed to Italian democracy and to Europe and he was clever in forging relationships with the labour and trade union movement in the UK, which Matteottti visited in 1924 soon after the fraudolent Italian General Elections in April that year. The decision to successfully seek support abroad sealed his fate and had a profound impact on Velia Titta, Matteotti’s wife, who would spend the rest of her life living under constant surveillance of Mussolini’s regime.
Matteotti’s legacy is still strong and alive today, ANPI United Kingdom & Ireland and INCA United Kingdom would like to celebrate it by supporting the exhibition and by organising collateral activities aimed at the general public in the United Kingdom. May Matteotti and Titta be an example of resilience and of international solidarity for the antifascist movements across the world.
The exhibition may be visited free of charge during the opening hours of the library till 30th October 2025. A second tour will be proposed on 24th September.
