Capozzi!!2
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He was born in Gioia del Colle in 1889 (by Vincenzo e Letizia Pugliese).
Socialist politician, has become the symbol of freedom and equality of men because as a teenager, he fought for the emancipation of the agricultural proletariat.
When he was 13 y.o.
participated in the farmers’
group, born in Gioia del Colle in
1899 to defend the rights of the
poorer classes.
He was admitted to the Italian
Socialist Party and in 1919 was
appointed secretary of the
provincial federation of
socialist.
Born in this period, in Puglia
and in the whole of Italy, a
new political ideology,
fascism. Supported by
farmers and industrialists,
this political movement
achieved power by armed
teams that terrorized the
citizens with violent actions.
Capozzi and all the party of Gioia
del Colle began to be persecuted
by the fascist teams, which in
1922 Nicola picked up and force
him to resigned.
He was confined for 10 years in
Ustica, Ponza, Ventotene and
imprisoned for 3 years and also
placed in the category of the most
dangerous people of Puglia.
At the end of World War II Nicola
was back to Gioia del Colle,
continues to fight for a better
world and decides to subscribe to
Italian Communist Party.
He died in april in 1976.
He has denounced with
his life:The political intolerance
The economic self-
interestThe narrow mindness
He was possessed by
the idea that it would
be enough to reveal
all a reality full of
misery and exploitation, thus
demonstrating that
the part was the truth,
to witness the capitulation of the
ruling classes.
He worked to He worked to create a create a righter righter society with society with a honest a honest behavior behavior and great and great sensibility. sensibility. he proudly he proudly face all the face all the persecutionpersecutions of s of Fascism Fascism even risking even risking his personal his personal interests. interests.