Opposition to the military presence in Sardinia. Political battles from the Second World War to the 1960s: the role of the Italian Communist Party

Abstract

The first signs of opposition to the military presence in Sardinia starting immediately after the Second World War and during the 1960s can be traced in multiple areas of the dynamics of democratic participation in the political debate. From the organized initiatives of parties and as-sociations to forms of individual expression, from denunciation mediated through cinematographic art to journalistic production and journalistic investigations: dissent towards the burdens of Defense on the island has taken on widespread, heterogeneous and transversal features from which emerge the contents of a sometimes peculiar research object, attributable to the scenarios of the political and social history of twentieth-century Sardinia, also in connection with much broader and more complex transnational contexts. Here we propose a partial mapping of the initial manifestations of the antagonism to the imposition on Sardinian territory of constraints attributable to policies within NATO, with particular attention to the press and parliamentary debate dominated by the Italian Communist Party.