Heritage
The materials in this theme underscore the centrality of “heritage,” in its various expressions, to today's Italian far-right community.
Pino Rauti – Andare oltre
(Pino Rauti – Go Further)
A former volunteer for Benito Mussolini's Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Italian Social Republic; 1943-45), Pino Rauti was a leading figure among post-World War II Italy's neo-fascist community.
In 1956, at the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) fifth national congress in…
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Paolo Signorelli – Le idee non si uccidono
(Paolo Signorelli – You Cannot Kill Ideas)
During the 1950s, Paolo Signorelli was a branch leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) university-level youth group, the Fronte Universitario d'Azione Nazionale (National Action University Front), at Sapienza University in Rome. He was involved with the far-right…
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Lo chiamavano "Peppino"
(They Called Him "Peppino")
Giuseppe Ciarrapico – AKA "Peppino" – was an Italian entrepreneur, politician, and far right propagandist for Giorgio Almirante's Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI). Born in 1934, Ciarrapico was too young to have participated in Benito Mussolini's twenty-year dictatorship…
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Lo sciamano del palatino – L'archeologia magica di Giacomo Boni
(The Shaman of the Palatine Hill – Giacomo Boni's Magical Archeology)
This poster was produced by CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI) to promote a roundtable discussion on the "archeologia magica" (magical archeology) of Giacomo Boni at CPI's Roman headquarters on Via Napoleone III. Educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Venice, he spent much of his…
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Vittoria – Corteo per il centenario della vittoria italiana
(Victory – Parade for the Centenary of the Italian Victory)
This poster was produced by CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI) to commemorate the centennial of Italy's "victory" in World War I (WWI). At its center stands a winged Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, who appears on the façades of several important structures in Rome including…
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Eroi – Ventidue storie dalla grande guerra
(Heroes – Twenty-Two Stories from the Great War)
This poster was produced by the neo-fascist accelerationist organization CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI) to publicize a November 16, 2018 roundtable discussion on the monograph Heroes: Twenty-Two Stories from the Great War (2018). In addition to the roundtable's date and time,…
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Zetazeroalfa – 20 anni
(Zetazeroalfa – 20 Years)
Fronted by CasaPound Italia (House of [Ezra] Pound Italy, CPI) leader Gianluca Iannone, Zetazeroalfa (ZZA) is a rock 'n roll band deeply rooted in neo-fascist political culture. Founded before CPI itself in the late 1990s, the group serves as an integral part of CPI's cultural network, and its…
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1919-2019
(1919-2019)
On March 23, 2019, Italy's neo-fascist community celebrated the centennial of the founding of Benito Mussolini's Fasci italiani di combattimento (Italian Fighting Squads) movement in Milan's Piazza San Sepolcro, which marked the beginning of Fascism's march to power in Italy.
This poster, produced…
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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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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)
On 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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Tradizione, formazione, rivoluzione
(Tradition, Training, Revolution)
This poster was produced by the neo-fascist organization Comunità Militante RAIDO (Militant Community RAIDO, CMR). Founded in 1995, CMR sponsors various "militant training groups," boxing and combat sports competitions, and mountaineering, which are intended for young, far-right Roman men. The…
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Famiglia – Scusate se è normale
Family – Sorry If It's Normal
This poster was produced by the far-right political activism organization Magnitudo Italia (Magnitude Italy, MI) to promote the "Marcia per la Vita" (March for Life) rally in Rome's Piazza della Repubblica on May 18, 2019. Near the center of the poster, viewers are confronted by an oversized…
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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