Carlo Lombardi (politician) – Wikipedia

Carlo Lombardi (Mortara, 7 January 1899 – Mortara, 23 May 1980) was an Italian politician.

The union struggle [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Born on January 7, 1899 from a family of laborers from Lomellina, he had known the harsh condition of the peasants marked by the scarcity of food from the first years of life, by the insalubre condition of the houses and by the arrogance of the agricultural owners. He lived the years of the first union struggles firsthand as his father Angelo was the organizer and secretary of the Bracciantile League of Mortara.
The young Carlo began to work as a bricklayer at 13 and since 1914 he was a worker at the Minghetti Officine; In recent years he enrolled in the socialist youth organization and following the Communist hamlet organized within the Federation of the PSI Pavese. His political commitment was translated with the orientation and organization of the Bracciantili Lotte of the Red Biennium (1919-1920) who saw hard clashes with the agrarian and fascist teams.

Prison and political militancy [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In October 1920 he was accused of instigating, with his speeches, the killing of an tenant and was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment and imprisoned just as fascism went up to power. Lombardi from prison joined the Communist Party immediately after its foundation and, discounted the first five years of segregation in Portolongone (now Porto Azzurro), he met a long series of prisons: Finale Pia, Piombino, Pallanza, L’Aquila, Civitavecchia and finally Pianosa, where the sick prisoners of tuberculosis were imprisoned. In prison he came into contact with numerous political prisoners and with them he matured the decision to fight against the regime.

Resistance [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Freed up on October 13, 1939, he resumed his political activity and, given his condition of special vigilated, he had to move with extreme caution by contacting the local anti -fascist network and collaborating at the reorganization of the Pavia Communist Party. In the spring of 1943, given the negative results of the war, the clandestine management of the PCI tackled the theme of the armed struggle for the first time: Lombardi with his companions Cesare and Arturo Capettini threw himself with great commitment to the military organization of the GAPs, groups of patriotic action.
Immediately after the advertisement announcement (8 September 1943) Carlo Lombardi indicates a rally in Mortara, exploiting the temporary emptiness of power, announces the birth of the national liberation committee and incites workers to challenge weapons. Given the clandestinity, he collaborated on the armed actions of the Sap Lomelline who culminated with the capture of the Cappettini brothers; Cesare will die in the Mouthausen field while Arturo was shot on December 31 in Milan.

Commissioner Remo [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

At the beginning of January 1944 Lombardi was called to constitute the first Garibaldi brigade of the Oltrepò Pavese and wanted that it was called Arturo Cappettini: thus becomes the political commissioner of the 51st Garibaldi brigade; Remo And he has started from a young anti -fascist military commander: Domenico Mezzadra, called the American .
The months of the partisan war are the great season of life of Carlo Lombardi, from the first clashes with the Germans at the birth of the partisan Republic of Oltrepò Pavese, born after the liberation of Varzi (September 19 – November 25, 1944); From the days of clandestinity in Milan in December 1944, to the new inspector of two brigades Garibaldi del Bresciano (the 54th operating in Val Camonica and the 122 ° activates in Val Trompia). In the days of liberation the commissioner Remo He is in Val Trompia and on April 25, 1945 he accompanied the 122nd brigade in the liberation of Gardone, after a tough fight against German forces.

Parliamentary activity [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Back in Mortara after the end of the war, Lombardi resumed his union and political activity in the PCI ranks which led him to be elected in 1946 to a member of the Constituent Assembly, in 1948 and in 1953 in the Chamber of Deputies, and in 1958 at Senate of the Republic.
He disappeared in Mortara on May 23, 1980.

• Clemente Ferrario, Carlo Lombardi, life of a contemporary , Editions La Pietra 1982