A square dedicated to Berlinguer will rise in Capoterra, a town about twenty kilometers from Cagliari. About 40 years after the fundraising for the - never born - “Casa Del Popolo”, the threads of history are re-tied. And the dream of militant historians, in part, is realized. A four-decade-long dream. It was the year 1982. To be precise, it was June 25th. There was a general strike called by CGIL, CISL and UIL in support of the dispute over contract renewals and to protest against Confindustria's unilateral decision to suspend the escalator. From Cagliari departed a ship dressed in red loaded with militants of the Italian Communist Party, the glorious PCI, the largest communist party in Western Europe, founded in 1921 and dissolved in 1991.
A delegation from Capoterra was also on board, led by the late Giancarlo Atzori, Salvatore Littarru, and other militant historians. In Rome, a fundraiser was improvised for the construction of the town's Casa del Popolo, which, in the desire of the comrades, should have hosted the party section. There was a moving solidarity contest. The workers, who with their meager salary had to support their families, very often single-income, pensioners, farmers, gave up the little they had in their pockets to allow Capoterra's comrades to realize their dream, their ideals of brotherhood, the same that united all the working masses.
Salvatore Littarru, then he was little more than a kid, but he still has those episodes imprinted in his mind. "It was a competition to lend a hand, there was a lot of enthusiasm, no one had evaded and had contributed as best he could to the cause", recalls Littarru who for four terms was a municipal councilor in the ranks of the PCI, then in the PDS and finally in the Ds. Fundraising continued in the village, upon returning from the great general strike, and the generosity of the Capoterresi made itself felt, especially on the occasion of the Festa dell'Unità.
Thus the great desire to be able to buy the land to build the Casa del Popolo in via Indipendenza, in the historic center of the town, became a beautiful reality. Among the militant historians, Carlo Cau, a former PCI councilor and today one of the members of the senior council, remembers the enthusiasm of those days: «That world no longer exists. Shortly thereafter, the largest party, the PCI, will put aside the hammer and sickle and the "sun of the future" ».
