Liberation
The materials in this theme underscore the significance of “national liberation,” in its various expressions, to today's Italian neo-fascist community.
Spezza le catene di Bruxelles
(Break the Chains of Brussels)
Speaking at a press conference in Matera, Italy in May 2019, Roberto Fiore – the National Secretary of the ultranationalist neo-fascist political party, Forza Nuova (New Force, FN), and President of the international far-right political coalition, the Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) – unveiled…
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Una gioventù ingovernabile
(An Ungovernable Youth)
Founded in 2015, but based on a dissolved neo-fascist youth organization formerly coordinated by the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI), the Fronte della Gioventù's (Youth Front, FdG) objective is to "bring youth back on top." The youth group's contemporary leadership has…
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L'Europa riparte dai giovani
(Europe Is Renewed by the Youth)
Produced by the Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front, FdG), this poster's message is that "L'Europa riparte dai giovani" (Europe Is Renewed by the Youth). Typifying the Italian far right's reverence for classical Rome, the poster's background imagery features a silhouette of a Roman centurion. As is…
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CasaPound Italia
(CasaPound Italy)
This oversized banner features the logo of CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI), a neo-fascist "accelerationist" organization that describes its members as "third millennium fascists" (2012). The group was founded in 2003, when members forced their way into and subsequently occupied…
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Basta €uro – Libertà, lavoro, indipendenza!
(Enough with the €uro – Freedom, Work, Independence!)
In May 2019, the neo-fascist organization and, then, political party, CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI), ran its National Secretary, Simone di Stefano, as a candidate for the European parliamentary elections under the Alliance of European National Movements (AENM) political…
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Meloni/Antoniozzi – Insieme per un centrodestra più forte
(Meloni/Antoniozzi – Together for a Stronger Center-Right)
In May 2019, Italians assembled at the polls to choose their representatives in the European Parliament. Among the major political parties in the running was Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI). Born out of the dissolution of both the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian…
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Meloni/Antoniozzi – Insieme per un centrodestra più forte
(Meloni/Antoniozzi – Together for a Stronger Center-Right)
In May 2019, Italians assembled at the polls to choose their representatives in the European Parliament. Among the major political parties in the running was Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI). Born out of the dissolution of both the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian…
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Scaglia il tuo dissenso sui signori del potere
(Unleash Your Dissent on the Overlords of Power)
This poster incorporates the logos of three far-right youth groups affiliated with Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI): Azione Studentesca (Student Action), which between 1995 and 2009 served as the Alleanza Nazionale's (National Alliance, AN) far-right high school-level youth group, but is…
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Stop! Burocrati, Banchieri, Buonisti, Barconi
(Stop! Bureaucrats, Bankers, Do-Gooders, Barges)
On May 26, 2019, Italians – along with the citizens of all European Union (EU) countries – went to the polls to choose their EU parliamentary representatives. Among the political parties in the running was La Lega (The League) – a far-right populist political party, led at the time of this writing…
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