WORLD WORLD FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #337 - International, Italy: Neo-fascism wants to impose its mark (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

 Since her appointment as head of government, Georgia Meloni has striven to

present an acceptable image. The European Union is reassured and even the CGIL
(the main trade union in Italy) has invited it to its congress. Yet his policy is
well marked with the seal of the far right. ---- Since coming to power in October
2022, Georgia Meloni seems to be on the way to winning her bet to make it
acceptable to see a country led by the leader of a neofascist party. It is not
for ease of language that this term neo-fascist is used. If Georgie Meloni's
party, Fratelli d'Italia, officially claims to be " national center-right ", and
this is how it is taken up in the press in Italy and here too, Meloni's party was
born out of a split from the former Alleanza nazionale party, itself a product of
the MSI (Movimento sociale italiano), the neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by
veterans of the Republic of Salo and various soldiers ready to keep the flame of
fascism going. The famous tricolor flame, which serves as the logo of Fratelli
d'Italia and which inspired the National Front when it was created.

Similarly, the themes dear to Meloni are those of the reactionary right :
glorification of the family, traditional values and religion, and his obsessions
are indeed those of the far right : the fear of migrants and the " Great
replacement ".

Since coming to power Meloni has been implementing a liberal economic policy that
will not displease the European Union. On March 16, the Council of Ministers
approved a tax reform that promises to "revolutionize" the current progressive
system to move towards a single tax for all, which was one of the flagship
promises of the program of the Fratelli d'Italia / Lega coalition. North / Forza
Italia. This reform is justified by the eternal neoliberal mantra of reducing the
tax burden on households and businesses in order to revive the economy : " This
tax reform is fundamental to relaunch the economy, encourage investment companies
and guarantee greater wealth to employees ", says Meloni.

The last few months have also seen an increase in expressions of sympathy, and
even more so, for the Mussolini regime. The celebrations last October of the
100th anniversary of the March on Rome were an opportunity for the Italian and
European far right (many French activists made the trip for the occasion) to come
together around the memory of this founding act. of fascism. More banal remarks
glorifying the Duce and the resumption of fascist slogans have multiplied.

Freewheeling faves
But even worse, the good old fascist recipes for physical intimidation are also
back. On February 4, six young activists from Azione studentesca, a far-right
group linked to Meloni's party, attacked four students outside a high school in
Florence. The emotion aroused in the peninsula by the images of the attack, which
was filmed and broadcast on social networks, did not elicit any comment from the
government side. Only the Minister of " Education and Merit ", a member of Lega
Nord, sanctioned a principal for having sent a circular in which she warned
against indifference in the face of street violence.

Meloni's rise to power has also been accompanied by a predictable toughening of
anti-migrant measures (see below) and more recently targeted attacks against
same-sex couples and families: recording discontinued civil status of children
from same-sex families and, following Poland and Hungary, rejection of the
European certificate of parenthood aimed at enabling children to benefit
throughout the Union from the rights attached to parentage. Surrogacy is now in
the sights of the government and its majority, Federico Mollicone, president of
the culture committee of the Chamber of Deputies and deputy Fratelli d'Italia,
considering that surrogacy is " a crime more serious than pedophilia " .

Given these facts, the invitation of Georgia Meloni by the CGIL, the main Italian
trade union, to intervene at its recent congress, is difficult to understand from
here. Although greeted by a few whistles and verses from Bella Ciao, the
neofascist leader was able to express herself quite normally, unrolling her
liberal program in front of the congressmen of an organization which was targeted
by neofascist militants from Forza Nuova. barely a year and a half ago.

So, let's remember, in the street or in the assembly, fascism is gangrene, we
eliminate it or we die!

David (UCL Chambery)

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