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From blood rises the new history

Bari, 28th August 2026.

On September 4th, Bari’s port will host the celebration of Italy’s longest-serving government, surpassing the record previously held by Silvio Berlusconi’s second cabinet. The event, organized by Fratelli d’Italia at pier 10 — the city’s new cruise terminal — is built to hold up to ten thousand people, with government ministers, coalition leaders, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni set to speak in the evening.

This is the backdrop against which grassroots collectives and opposition groups called an open assembly at Parco Rossani, a week before the celebration.

Groups form under the trees through the late afternoon. Behind them, a wall carries years of overlapping graffiti — among them, in block letters: dal sangue sorge la nuova storia. From blood rises the new history.

There’s no stage. A megaphone changes hands. People sit in a circle, listening, interjecting. The light drops slowly as the discussion runs on, from the long shadows of late afternoon into the full dark of evening, streetlights on, last cigarettes lit.

What an assembly leaves behind isn’t only what gets decided, but the waiting, the pauses, the small gestures that hold a group together before a single word is agreed on.

What was rehearsed here is meant to be tested somewhere else, in front of a very different crowd.

Wide view of Parco Rossani in Bari, groups standing and sitting under trees near a graffiti-covered wall.A man in a cap gesturing mid-speech, an out-of-focus street and buildings behind him.A man in a red shirt speaking with an open hand, others listening and smoking beside him.A woman's back and shoulder tattoo, blurred figures gathered behind her at a public meeting.Close-up of a dog with its tongue out, a crowd blurred in the background.An older man pushing a second cart of water bottles, four younger people gathered nearby.Close-up of a man's raised hand mid-gesture, graffiti wall behind him.Close-up of a hand cupping a lighter flame to light a cigarette at dusk.
A bicycle in the foreground of a park gathering, people seated on the grass ahead of an assembly in Bari.A woman raising her hand while speaking, a seated crowd listening around her.A man mid-sentence in front of a densely tagged wall, others listening around him.Two women seen from behind walking past a graffiti wall toward a gathered group.Four young men in conversation, one with a mohawk, standing close together in a park.Three women holding folding fans against the evening heat, apartment buildings behind them.A nighttime crowd standing in a park, streetlights and apartment blocks in the background.
A hand holding a megaphone, a seated crowd out of focus in the background of an evening assembly.Wide crowd seated on the ground listening, an antifascist symbol painted on the wall behind them.A man pushing a shopping cart loaded with water bottles through a crowd at a public assembly.Overhead detail of sandals, bottles and bare feet on grass during a break in an open-air assembly.Backlit profile of a man and woman smoking at sunset, cigarette smoke lit against the fading light.