Ciotti "Memory must be transformed into commitment, responsibility, action" – Rebelion

On January 10, 1944, Nazi SS division (Schutzstaffel) broke into the company Ercole Comerio, located in the city of Busto Arsizio, in northern Italy, to end a strike initiated months earlier by workers protesting wage increases, clothing, shoes and food. The textile company had been forced to convert to the production of war material. Next to the steel plant “Franco Tosi” represented a symbol of the strength of the labour movement in northern It…