“Resistance is everyone’s value” –

The Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding, lasting three years, with the National Association of Regular Armed Forces Fighters of the War of Liberation (ANCFARGL), the National Association of Christian Partisans (ANPC), the Association National Partisans of Italy (ANPI), Italian Confederation of Combatant and Partisan Associations, Italian Federation of Partisan Associations (FIAP) and the Italian Federation of Freedom Volunteers (FIVL) for the promotion of training courses on the origins of the Republic through events which led to the liberation of our country.

“For the first time – underlines Valditara – to honor the Resistance we have decided as a Ministry not to involve just one of the partisan associations, the Anpi, but all the associations, including the fighting ones, which gave life to the Resistance”. “Resistance which”, continues Valditara, “involves the entire Italian population in the values ​​of freedom, respect for the human person and democracy expressed in the Constitution that resulted from it”. The Minister also recalls that “the partisan associations split for political reasons in the followingmath of the Constituent Assembly. Therefore, recognizing only one of them as representing the partisan struggle would be historically unfair and counterproductive compared to the need for a plural sharing of the values ​​of the Resistance by all Italians”.

In particular, the agreement provides for the implementation of activities in first and second cycle schools to disseminate the values ​​expressed in the Constitution so as to contribute to the education of students on the ideals of democracy and freedom.
To achieve the objectives indicated in the Protocol, a joint committee will be established composed of three representatives of the Ministry of Education and Merit and three representatives of the other signatory parties.