Giorgia Meloni he doesn’t say we are the real anti-fascists (he doesn’t like to use this word, as we know) and he doesn’t even say, explicitly, you on the left are the anti-fascists of yesterday and we are the anti-fascists of today. And yet this is, as Fratelli d’Italia points out, the meaning of his message via social media on April 25th. Few words – last year the leader of the right was much more eloquent on the occasion of her first April 25th experience as prime minister – but very precise: «On the day in which Italy celebrates the Liberation, which with the end of fascism the foundations for the return of democracy, we reiterate our aversion to all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Those of yesterday, who oppressed the people in Europe and around the world, and those of today, who we are determined to oppose with commitment and courage. We will continue to work to defend democracy and for an Italy finally capable of uniting on the value of freedom. Long live freedom!
The fundamental passage is the one on the totalitarianisms of “yesterday” and those of “today”. The head of government wants to underline, with this specification, that being anti-fascist today also means being – as the demonstrations of this April 25th are not: without yellow-blue flags and without slogans against Russian militarism – alongside the Ukrainian partisans and demonstrate solidarity not only for the Palestinians but also for the freedom of the State of Israel to exist. The same one that is being monstrous in the demonstrations of these hours – even with glances at Hamas – all under the banner of Free Palestine and the ceasefire, without any mention of October 7th and the tragedy of the hostages still in the hands of terrorists in Gaza.
So Meloni is attacked from all sides – and there are those who tell her that she must remove the flame from the symbol of FdI, those who must go on a pilgrimage to the stele of Giacomo Matteotti in Riano and those who remember her as always and by now it is a litany that must finally pronounce the word “anti-fascism” – he in turn does not give up attacking. He does it in an indirect and at the same time very precise way. She does not accept being cornered on an issue that is not only historical – the events of 79 years ago, their memory and their teaching – but also very current: the defense of the freedom of peoples in the contemporary world. Progressive anti-fascists, here is her belief, expressed in the short but juicy message on Instagram, are shy with the fascisms of the present.
It is a discussion that must have originated in her, according to those who work with her, also from all the controversy over the Scurati case – who with Matteotti’s socialist squad in hand held the rally on the Milanese stage of the April 25 party – and by the accusations of new censorious fascism that have rained down on the government and the public service in recent days. That is, Meloni is struck by the squint of those who continually quibble about the return of totalitarian ghosts of the past, without precisely seeing the totalitarian nightmares that today weigh on Europe and the world at the gates of our continent. He didn’t hear you and he didn’t hear anyone, because in yesterday’s celebrations there wasn’t a monologue on Ukraine crushed by Putin’s armed despotism and on the current impossibility of that people feeling free.
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History is history, even if it is tremendously tragic like that of the Twenty Years, but “with the end of fascism” Italy has freed itself, whereas others are not free. And it is an approach, this one from Meloni, which coincides with that of Mattarelli’s speeches on 25 April, both this year and two years ago when he said that the Resistance is being fought today in Ukraine. It’s still. Melons days ago she addressed some journalists as follows: «I have said what I had to say about fascism a hundred times and I always repeat it. You can keep repeating that I am a dangerous fascist. And I thank you for helping me, given that the people who see this government of ours also see that the extremists are on another side.” The extremists are on the other side – for example among those who praise Hamas, those who burn the photo of the prime minister in the square as happened yesterday in Bologna or deface his electoral posters as happened yesterday in Naples or insult the Jewish community – while the right of which Meloni sees himself as an interpreter of is that of respect for democratic principles for everyone and everywhere and which maintains a democratic and institutional posture. The one seen yesterday morning at the Altare della Patria. Where the head of the government together with the presidents of the Chambers (both right-wing, Fontana and La Russa, and there were also the minister Crosetto and the president of the Consulta, Barbera) and above all together with Mattarella laid a wreath of flowers for the martyrs of Liberation.
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