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Blocco Studentesco – Aprilia

(Student Bloc – Aprilia)

This sticker comes from Blocco Studentesco's (Student Bloc, BS) Aprilia chapter, which is located approximately 50 kilometers south-east of Rome. Aprilia – along with Latina (now Littoria), Sabaudia, Pontinia, and Pomezia – is one of the "New Towns" constructed by Benito Mussolini's dictatorship between 1932 and 1939. Thus, the significance of this particular sticker is that it highlights the neo-fascist youth group's interest in forging symbolic links between its brand of neo-fascism and the Fascism of interwar Italy. Although the sticker was likely produced in Aprilia, it was collected from a metal pole just outside of CasaPound Italia's (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI) illegally-occupied Roman headquarters on Via Napoleone III, where the neo-fascist organization's leadership has been squatting since December 2003.

The sticker was likely placed there by BS members who had come to Rome to attend one of CPI's social gatherings or sponsored lectures at the Esquilino squat. Between 2018 and the following year, CPI hosted a number of social gatherings or sponsored lectures at their Via Napoleone III headquarters, including a roundtable discussion on the "magical archeology" of the interwar Italian archeologist, Giacomo Boni.

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Blocco Studentesco – Aprilia
Blocco Studentesco – Aprilia This sticker comes from CasaPound Italy's Aprilia chapter, which is located approximately fifty kilometers south-east of Rome. The sticker was placed on a metal pole just outside of CasaPound Italy's illegally-occupied Roman headquarters on Via Napoleone III, most likely by some of its Aprilia-based members who had come to Rome to attend one of the organization's social gatherings or sponsored lectures. Source: Photograph by Brian J Griffith (December 28, 2020).

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Blocco Studentesco, “Blocco Studentesco – Aprilia,” Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019, accessed October 22, 2024, https://wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/45.