This article has been written for the greek anarchist newspaper Apatris, where the greek translation will appear in the iusse n°39.
In italiano in fondo all’articolo.
In Italy, the presence of Fascism has never truly gone away. Both institutional (a large portion of the judicial system and the police remain the same despite the “democratic transition”), and militant (like the political party Movimento Sociale Italiano, the fascist terrorism of the 70’s, the hooligan scene of the 80’s and the reconstruction of the party Forza Nuova in 1997).
In the twenty years which were dominated by the right-wing prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Neo-fascist phenomenon disappeared from the media (with the exception of the murder of Davide “Dax” Cesare in 2003), only to later reappear in October 2008 when a group of people from Casapound tried to attack the student demonstration of the so-called “Onda” movement; an attack which was repelled.
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