Comitatus pro Libertatibus

The Freedom Committees (officially, in Latin, ; in Italian ) are a transnational association dedicated to the diffusion of the principles of liberalism and libertarianism.

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The "Committees for Freedoms" were founded in 1997 on the initiative of the Russian writer Vladimir Bukovsky, the French historian Stéphane Courtois and the Italian writer and journalist Dario Fertilio as a federally-based international movement to defend and spread the culture of freedoms.

In the early years, the committees worked for the organization of various conferences, for example on October, 13th 1997 in honor of Edgardo Sogno in Turin.

In 2001 the General Assembly held in Florence elected Vladimir Bukovsky as President-General of the Committees. Another assembly took place in Rome from March, 1st to March, 3rd 2003.

Memento Gulag

The Committees for Freedoms organized every year "Memento Gulag", a day of international studies on the repression and crimes of communist regimes, in particular Soviet totalitarianism. The workshop is always held on the same date, chosen for its symbolic value: November 7, the day of the beginning of the October Revolution according to the Gregorian calendar.

Starting in 2003 the international workshop was held in various European towns:
* 2003: in Rome, 7-8 November;

*2004: in Bucharest (in cooperation with the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance);

*2005: in Berlinconsultabile anche online
) (in cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Berlin, the '' Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen'' and the ''Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung'');
*2006: in La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) (dedicated to the victims of the 1956 Hungarian counter-revolution);
*2007: in Paris;
*2008 in Milan;
*2009 in Trieste;
*2010 in Bologna;

The workshop showed the presence of the President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera