Roberto Formigoni is an Italian politician. He was the president of Lombardy from 1995 to 2013. He is the former unofficial political spokesperson of the Communion and Liberation movement. On 21 February 2019,the Supreme Court of Cassation,the highest court in Italy,found him guilty of corruption and sentenced him to a definitive jail term of 5 years and 10 months. As a result,he has been detained in the prison of Bollate,near Milan,Italy,since February 2019.
The Italian Republican Party is a political party in Italy established in 1895,which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century classical radicalism,as well as Mazzinianism,and its modern incarnation is associated with liberalism,social liberalism,and centrism. The PRI has old roots and a long history that began with a left-wing position,being the heir of the Historical Far Left and claiming descent from the political thought of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. With the rise of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) to its left,it was associated with centre-left politics. The early PRI was also known for its anti-clerical,anti-monarchist,republican,and later anti-fascist stances. While maintaining those traits,during the second half of the 20th century the party moved towards the centre on the left–right political spectrum,becoming increasingly economically liberal.
New Force is an Italian neo-fascist political party. It was founded by Roberto Fiore and Massimo Morsello. The party is a member of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom and was a part of the Social Alternative from 2003 to 2006. The party has often been strongly criticized for its radical positions and for acts of violence involving some militants. It was also the protagonist of political campaigns opposed to same-sex marriage and immigration to Italy.
The Third Position is a set of neo-fascist political ideologies that were first described in Western Europe following the Second World War. Developed in the context of the Cold War,it developed its name through the claim that it represented a third position between the capitalism of the Western Bloc and the communism of the Eastern Bloc.
la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and led by Eugenio Scalfari,Carlo Caracciolo,and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore as a leftist newspaper,which proclaimed itself a "newspaper-party". During the early years of la Repubblica,its political views and readership ranged from the reformist left to the extraparliamentary left. Into the 21st century,it is identified with centre-left politics,and was known for its anti-Berlusconism,and Silvio Berlusconi's personal scorn for the paper.
The Bologna massacre was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna,Italy,on the morning of 2 August 1980,which killed 85 people and wounded over 200. Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari were sentenced for the bombing,although the group denied involvement.
Massimo Morsello was an Italian fascist,political singer-songwriter. He was the main figure of Italian fascist political music and,with Roberto Fiore,a co-founder of the Italian neo-fascist movement Forza Nuova. He was born in Rome on 10 November 1958. He died in London on 10 March 2001.
The Republican Fascist Party was a political party in Italy led by Benito Mussolini during the German occupation of Central and Northern Italy and was the sole legal representative party of the Italian Social Republic. The PFR was the successor to the National Fascist Party but was more influenced by pre-1922 early radical fascism and anti-monarchism,as its members considered King Victor Emmanuel III to be a traitor after his signing of the surrender to the Allies.
The Italian General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union centre in Italy. It was formed by an agreement between socialists,communists,and Christian democrats in the "Pact of Rome" of June 1944. In 1950,socialists and Christian democrats split forming UIL and CISL,and since then the CGIL has been influenced by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and until recent years by its political heirs:the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS),the Democrats of the Left (DS) and currently the Democratic Party (PD).
Vittorio Valletta was an Italian industrialist and president of Fiat S.p.A. from 1946 to 1966.
The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari,abbreviated NAR,was an Italian terrorist neo-fascist militant organization active during the Years of Lead from 1977 to November 1981. It committed over 100 murders in four years,and had planned to assassinate the politicians Francesco Cossiga,Gianfranco Fini and Adolfo Urso. The group maintained close links with the Banda della Magliana,a Rome-based criminal organization,which provided such logistical support as lodging,false papers,weapons,and bombs to the NAR. In November 1981,it was discovered that the NAR hid weapons in the basements of the Health Ministry. The first trial against them sentenced 53 people in May 1985 on charges of terrorist activities.
Gabriele Adinolfi is an Italian far-right ideologue and essayist. Adinolfi was involved in Terza Posizione,a short-lived far-right group founded in 1979. Like other neo-fascists of his generation,he saw his enemy as the far-left and the Italian Social Movement (MSI). He founded several publications and a website called Noreporter.
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa is an Italian politician who is serving as president of the Senate of the Republic since 13 October 2022. He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate,the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.
Eugenio Scalfari was an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of L'Espresso (1963–1968),a member of Parliament in Italy's Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972),and co-founder of La Repubblica and its editor-in-chief (1976–1996). He was known for his meetings and interviews with important figures,including Pope Francis,Enrico Berlinguer,Aldo Moro,Umberto Eco,Italo Calvino,and Roberto Benigni.
Nicola Cosentino is an Italian politician. He was until 1/21 the regional coordinator of Forza Italia in Campania.
CasaPound Italia is an Italian neo-fascist movement. It was formerly a political party,born as a network of far-right social centres arising from the occupation of a state-owned building by squatters in the neighborhood of Esquilino in Rome on 26 December 2003. Subsequently,CasaPound spread with other instances of squatting,demonstrations and various initiatives,becoming a political movement.
Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Camerino in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of fascism. He has also researched and published extensively on the totalitarian structure of Mussolini's regime,its repressive mechanisms and its system of informants. He studied under Renzo De Felice,and has published in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies,the Italian dailies la Repubblica and Cronache di Liberal.
Maurizio Landini is an Italian trade unionist. Since January 2019,he is the General Secretary of CGIL. He was also former general secretary of FIOM from 2010 to 2017. Landini is considered a socialist and is famous for his populist political style.
Alessandro Alibrandi was an Italian neofascist terrorist who was active in the organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari. He was killed during a firefight with the police in Rome while attempting to steal their weapons.
The Federation of Young Socialists is the youth wing of the Italian Socialist Party.
