Youth
The materials in this theme illuminate the significance of capturing, and transforming, youth consciousness within today’s Italian neo-fascist community.
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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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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Chi osa vince
(He Who Dares Wins)
Produced by Lotta Studentesca (Student Struggle, LS) – Forza Nuova's (New Force, FN) neo-fascist youth group – this poster proclaims that "Chi osa vince" (He Who Dares Wins). Named after a dissolved neo-fascist youth group founded in 1976, LS describes itself as "the gladius [sword] of the Arditi,…
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Lotta Studentesca
(Student Struggle)
Lotta Studentesca (Student Struggle, LS) is Forza Nuova's (New Force, FN) neo-fascist youth group. Founded by Roberto Fiore and Massimo Marsello in 1997, FN is an ultranationalist far-right political party known for its extreme positions on issues like same-sex marriage and immigration. The party…
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Lotta Studentesca
(Student Struggle)
Lotta Studentesca (Student Struggle, LS) is Forza Nuova's (New Force, FN) neo-fascist youth group. Founded by Roberto Fiore and Massimo Marsello in 1997, FN is an ultranationalist far-right political party known for its extreme positions on issues like same-sex marriage and immigration. The party…
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Tamburo dell'avanguardia
(Drum[beat] of the Avant-Garde)
Tamburo dell'avanguardia (Drum[beat] of the Avant-Garde) is the motto of Blocco Studentesco (Student Bloc, BS), a neo-fascist youth group founded in 2006 by CasaPound Italia (CasaPound Italy, CPI). The CPI youth wing's leadership adopted the slogan in 2018 during a publicity campaign which…
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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.
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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…
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Anime Armate
(Armed Souls)
Nemesi Italia (Nemesis Italy, NI) was a far-right youth organization based in Rome. Founded in 2018, NI focused on organizing Rome's high school and university students around a vaguely-conceived neo-fascist program whose objective was to "build a community of purpose and destiny that can help…
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Caos.
(Chaos.)
Movimento CAOS (CHAOS Movement, MC) was a far-right youth group based in Rome. During the three years of its existence (2018-21), MC produced a handful of far-right materials and branded clothing, hosted youth-oriented public events and activities, and staged various "patriotic" demonstrations,…
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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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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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Casale Fascist Crew
(Casale Fascist Crew)
This sticker was designed in the style of the official logo for the popular American outdoor performance clothing and equipment company, The North Face (NF), and features the phrase "Casale Fascist Crew." Most likely short for Casale Monferrato – a large town in Italy's northern region of Piedmont,…
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7 gennaio
(January 7)
On January 7, 1978, five members of the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) youth group, the Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front, FdG), were ambushed by five Lotta Continua (Ongoing Struggle) militants in front of one of the MSI's social centers in Rome's Tuscolano…
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Dal popolo gli eroi
(Heroes [Come] from the People)
On January 7, 1978, five members of the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) youth group, the Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front, FdG), were ambushed by five Lotta Continua (Ongoing Struggle) militants in front of one of the MSI's social centers in Rome's Tuscolano…
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Acca Larenzia
(Acca Larenzia)
On January 7, 1978, five members of the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) youth group, the Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front, FdG), were ambushed by five Lotta Continua (Ongoing Struggle) militants in front of one of the MSI's social centers in Rome's Tuscolano…
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Stefano e Virgilio Mattei – Noi non dimentichiamo
(Stefano and Virgilio Mattei – We Will Not Forget)
Stefano and Virgilio Mattei were the sons of Mario Mattei, a member of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI). They were killed in an arson attack on their home in Primavalle, a residential neighborhood in northwest Rome, which was perpetrated on April 16, 1973 by members of…
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Mikis Mantakas – L'Europa in lotta per la libertà non dimentica i suoi martiri
(Mikis Mantakas – Europe in the Struggle for Freedom Will Not Forget Its Martyrs)
A medicine student born in Athens, Mikis Mantakas lived in Rome where he was a member of Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front), the youth division of post-World War II Italy's neo-fascist political party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI).
The first trial for the "Rogo di…
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Alberto Giaquinto – Nel suo nome avanza la rivoluzione
(Alberto Giaquinto – In Your Name the Revolution Advances)
Seventeen-year-old Alberto Giaquinto died on January 10, 1979 following a Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front, FdG) demonstration on the first anniversary of the Acca Larenzia killings which quickly turned violent. Giaquinto was shot by an undercover police officer, Alessio Speranza, as the former…
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Gabriele vive
(Gabriele Lives)
On November 11, 2007, a group of SS Lazio fans, including the twenty-six-year-old DJ from Rome with known far-right sympathies, Gabriele Sandri, got into a fight with Juventus FC fans at a rest stop near the Tuscan city of Arezzo. As tensions escalated, a group of highway police officers were…
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Gabriele!
(Gabriel!)
On November 11, 2007, a group of SS Lazio fans, including the twenty-six-year-old DJ from Rome with known far-right sympathies, Gabriele Sandri, got into a fight with Juventus FC fans at a rest stop near the Tuscan city of Arezzo. As tensions escalated, a group of highway police officers were…
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A Domenico
(To Domenico)
On February 2, 2018, Domenico Maria Dorsa – a young member of the far-right groups Nihil Est Superius (Nothing Is Superior, NES) and Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) – passed away following a car accident on the northern stretches of Rome's Great Ring Junction (GRJ) – a motorway which…
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Domenico vive! – Concerto in ricordo di Domenico
(Domenico Lives! – A Concert in Memory of Domenico)
On February 2, 2018, Domenico Maria Dorsa – a young member of the far-right groups Nihil Est Superius (Nothing Is Superior, NES) and Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) – passed away following a car accident on the northern stretches of Rome's Great Ring Junction (GRJ) – a motorway which…
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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