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The materials in our "Rebellion" theme highlight the significance of non-conformity with respect to the socio-political status quo within the contemporary Italian far-right community.

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The materials in our Comunità Militante RAIDO collection highlight the group's neo-fascist ideology, which is rooted in “tradition, training, [and] revolution.”

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The materials in our "Youth" theme illuminate the significance of capturing, and transforming, youth consciousness within today’s Italian neo-fascist community.

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Take a virtual tour of the Where Monsters Are Born exhibition at the Fresno State Library. . . . 🔗 my.matterport.com/show/?m=Hzyk...

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A shoutout from the President of @fresnostate.bsky.social on the @wmab-2018-2019.bsky.social exhibition at the @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social.

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Take a virtual tour of the Where Monsters Are Born exhibition at the Fresno State Library. . . . 🔗 my.matterport.com/show/?m=Hzyk...

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Our “Youthful Rebellion” lesson plan asks students to analyze the strategies by which the contemporary Italian far right promotes a sense of youthful rebellion and its connection to both rhetorical and physical political violence.

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The materials in our CasaPound Italia collection illuminate the group's neo-fascist ideology, cultural activism, youth engagement, and promotion of far-right notions of Italian heritage through street-level propaganda and activities.

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The materials in our "Centennials" theme showcase the efforts made by the contemporary Italian neo-fascist community in commemorating the centennials of World War I and the founding of Fascism.

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This poster was distributed in northern Rome to promote a concert "in Domenico's memory," which featured various other well-known neo-fascist rock 'n roll groups based in Rome.

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On this day in 2018, Domenico Maria Dorsa – a young member of the far-right groups Nothing Is Superior and the Brothers of Italy – passed away in a car accident on the outskirts of Rome. This poster – distributed by his “comrades” – commemorates his death.

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Our “Mourning and Memory in Historical Context” lesson plan prompts students to compare and contrast the collective memory strategies surrounding war dead and fallen “comrades” of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the contemporary Italian far right.

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A photo/video tour of the Where Monsters Are Born exhibition at the Fresno State Library. . . . #Fascism #Fresno #Italy #NeoFascism #PublicHistory #Rome

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I wrote an OpEd on Elon Musk’s unmistakable, and reprehensible, fascist salute at Trump’s post-inauguration rally in Washington DC. Please share widely.

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The materials in our Blocco Studentesco collection showcase the youth group's neo-fascist origins, street-level political activism, and its protests against Italy’s education system and government.

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

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Collected on this day in 2019, this poster depicts a shouting Student Bloc member leading an anonymous, fiery-colored crowd, symbolizing Italian neo-fascist youth challenging Italy’s socio-political status quo.

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Our “Making Martyrs” lesson plan asks students to examine the way in which the Italian far right’s dead are constructed as “martyrs” for the neo-fascist movement, and to understand the various implications of this ideologically-motivated framing.

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The materials in our Acca Larenzia collection highlight the Italian far right’s commemorations of three Fronte della Gioventù members who were killed in 1978, as well as the ongoing collective rituals honoring these neo-fascist “martyrs.”

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Collected on this day in 2019, this poster commemorates the death of 17-year-old Alberto Giaquinto, who was shot by an undercover police officer during a 1979 far-right demonstration in Rome.

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Collected on this day in 2019, this poster was part of a series critiquing Matteo Salvini's rebranding of his far-right political party The League ahead of a controversial 2018 rally in Rome.

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This poster commemorates the deaths of Franco Bigonzetti, Francesco Ciavatta, and Stefano Recchioni, victims of the 1978 Acca Larenzia killings, who are commemorated annually by far-right groups in Rome and beyond.

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Named after Antonio Gramsci's observations of post-World War I Italy's struggles with political violence, WMAB is intended as a resource for exploring the visual and spatial strategies deployed by Italy's neo-fascists towards the popularization of their illiberal worldviews. https://buff.ly/495N6sF

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100 years ago today, Benito Mussolini stood in front of his remaining colleagues in the Chamber of Deputies and proclaimed a dictatorship. In November, I published the attached OpEd to both mark the centennial of Mussolini's dictatorship and to draw parallels with the incoming Trump administration.

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The materials in our "Patriarchs" theme highlight the commemoration of post-World War II Italy's neo-fascist leaders among the contemporary Italian far-right community.

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The materials in our "Elections" theme illuminate the ways in which Italy's (post-)fascist political parties have popularized their far-right views among voters via political branding campaigns.

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Our “Making Martyrs” lesson plan asks students to examine the way in which the Italian far right’s dead are constructed as “martyrs” for the neo-fascist movement, and to understand the various implications of this ideologically-motivated framing.

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On this day in 2003, members of CasaPound Italy occupied a multi-story building near Rome's Termini Station, which became its full-time headquarters. This banner, collected in March 2019, displays the neo-fascist group’s "Arrowed Turtle" logo.

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"Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US."

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Collected on this day in 2018, this poster was produced by CasaPound Italy (CPI) to publicize a November 16, 2018 roundtable discussion on the monograph Heroes: Twenty-Two Stories from the Great War at CPI’s illegally-occupied Roman headquarters.

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Collected on this day in 2018, this poster features a quote from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: "The old world is dying" and the "new one is slow to appear," the passage explains, and "in this interregnum [chiaroscuro], monsters are born."

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The materials in our Fronte della Gioventù collection present Italian youth as an unstoppable, rebellious and ultra-patriotic force with the power to overthrow the socio-political status quo.

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The materials in our "Martyrs" theme showcase the significance of commemorating the deaths of Italy's neo-fascist militants among the contemporary Italian far-right community.

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Our “Youthful Rebellion” lesson plan asks students to analyze the strategies by which the contemporary Italian far right promotes a sense of youthful rebellion and its connection to both rhetorical and physical political violence.

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Collected on this day in 2018, this poster depicts Paolo Signorelli as a neo-fascist “patriarch.” His ponderous body posture, along with the words "ideas cannot be killed," contribute to this image of an unapologetic, militant far-right ideologue.

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The materials in our Fratelli d'Italia collection illuminate the far-right political party’s neo-fascist roots and its impact on Italy’s political landscape under Giorgia Meloni’s leadership.

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Dr. @amycking.bsky.social has published a new article with the scholarly journal Italian Culture on the uses and abuses of collective memory among Italian neo-fascist groups (with a mention of Where Monsters Are Born). To see the article, click on the following URL:

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The materials in our "Liberation" theme underscore the significance of “national liberation,” in its various expressions, to today's Italian neo-fascist community.

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Our “Mourning and Memory in Historical Context” lesson plan prompts students to compare and contrast the collective memory strategies surrounding war dead and fallen “comrades” of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the contemporary Italian far right.

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Happy to see my article Pacifying the Nation?: Youth, MSI Martyrs, and Meloni’s Memory Politics published today in Italian Culture as part of the special issue Italy’s Multidimensional Forgetting: Narratives, Contested Memories, and Solidarity 1/

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The materials in our Forza Nuova collection showcase the neo-fascist political party's ultranationalism, anti-European Union views, and campaigns of political violence against marginalized communities, trade unions, and journalists in Italy.

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The materials in our "Rebellion" theme highlight the significance of non-conformity with respect to the socio-political status quo within the contemporary Italian far-right community.

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