Heritage

The materials in this theme underscore the centrality of “heritage,” in its various expressions, to today's Italian far-right community.

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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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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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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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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"The old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this interregnum [chiaroscuro], monsters are born."

— Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks