For the left, the urgency is the name of the streets

On the pages of “Republic”, the progressive battle over naming the streets of Italian cities to women reappears. With lots of selection criteria, which exclude saints and martyrs. A perfect line for choosing subjects on a political basis. Cyclically, the great planned battles return...

Robert Obermair from the University of Salzburg analyses the current process of renaming NS-loaded street names.

Torrelavega, in Cantabria, is one of the examples of a city with the majority of its streets bearing male names, and for this reason, its Department of Equality is going to "feminize" its streets, as 98% of its streets now bear the name of a man. Only eleven of the three hundred streets in the Cantabrian town commemorate a woman, which has justified the project that this city council wants to implement, which its Councilor for Equality, Patricia…