
Marcinelle
(Leggi la versione italiana del testo qui https://rivistando.substack.com/p/marcinelle?r=24rh5q) On the morning of 8 August 1956, men descended into the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, a working-class town near Charleroi in southern Belgium. Among them were many Italians, who had arrived from across the country, from villages in Abruzzo, Sicily and Veneto. Some had been in Belgium for only a few months; others had spent years working underground, chasing the promise that post-war Europe seemed to offer its labourers: a wage, stability and a future. Instead, they entered one of the deadliest industrial disasters in European history. A fire broke out deep









