Elections
The materials in this theme illuminate the ways in which Italy's (post-)fascist political parties have popularized their far-right views among voters via political branding campaigns.
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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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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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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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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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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"The old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this interregnum [chiaroscuro], monsters are born."
— Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks