{"id":27,"featured":0,"modified":"2024-12-09 03:13:37","latitude":41.87723187782763289987997268326580524444580078125,"longitude":12.5671577453613299013568394002504646778106689453125,"title":"Roma est antifascista","address":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/wheremonstersareborn.com\/files\/square_thumbnails\/66e86a9b20e30b409d3361b009a361e8.jpg","creator":["Azione Antifascista Roma Est"],"description":"

T<\/span>his \"Liberation Day\" handbill appeared in the alleyways of Rome's Prenestino-Centocelle<\/a> neighborhood in the early weeks of April 2019. Intended to promote a celebratory public march and subsequent left-wing gathering in Piazza delle Camelie on April 25th, the handbill features the rallying slogan: \"(East) Rome Is Anti-Fascist\" (2019b).<\/p>\r\n

Disseminated by Azione Antifascista Roma Est (East Rome Anti-Fascist Action, AARE), a left-wing activist group based in Prenestino-Centocelle, the handbill celebrates the victory of the anti-fascist Italian Partisans against the remnants of Benito Mussolini's Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Italian Social Republic<\/a>; 1943-45) and Nazi Germany's occupying Wehrmacht forces during the final months of World War II. The AARE's handbill was complimented by a similarly-designed poster, which is featured in this collection<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Beyond celebrating April 25th, the AARE's 2019 festivities were intended to highlight the organization's social activism in East Rome's largely lower-middle and working-class neighborhoods. In response to the media attention that the AARE's Liberation Day poster generated, the organization's spokesperson proclaimed: \"On this April 25th, we intend to revive the historical anti-fascist procession in Centocelle.\" From the \"resistance of the struggle for housing\" to the \"popular taverns that support the farmers' markets\" and \"local resistance networks in social and self-managed spaces,\" the AARE's procession through East Rome was intended to \"resonate in the streets of our neighborhoods with the spirit of anti-fascist resistance\" (2019a).<\/p>\r\n

In addition to the AARE's posters and handbills, a handful of both anti-fascist and far-right organizations, including the Roman division of the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (National Association of Italian Partisans<\/a>) (Fig. 1) and CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy<\/a>), distributed pro- and anti-Liberation Day posters, two of which are featured in this collection.<\/p>","sponsor":"","subtitle":"((East) Rome Is Antifascist)","accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"files":{"https:\/\/wheremonstersareborn.com\/files\/fullsize\/66e86a9b20e30b409d3361b009a361e8.jpg":{"id":39,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","title":"Roma est antifascista","thumbnail":"https:\/\/wheremonstersareborn.com\/files\/square_thumbnails\/66e86a9b20e30b409d3361b009a361e8.jpg","description":"This handbill was produced by East Rome Anti-Fascist Action to promote the group's \"Liberation Day\" public march in Rome's Prenestino-Centocelle neighborhood on April 25, 2019. | Photograph by Brian J Griffith (December 28, 2020)."},"https:\/\/wheremonstersareborn.com\/files\/fullsize\/b4f787fa8d181d7fcb8a91045faaaf8b.jpg":{"id":154,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","title":"Fig. 1","thumbnail":"https:\/\/wheremonstersareborn.com\/files\/square_thumbnails\/b4f787fa8d181d7fcb8a91045faaaf8b.jpg","description":"Members of the National Association of Italian Partisans<\/a> Roman division marching through Rome on \"Liberation Day\" on April 25, 2019. | \"25 aprile, Roma festeggia la Liberazione dal nazifascismo continuando a lottare<\/a>,\" DINAMOPRESS<\/em> (April 24, 2019)."}}}