CasaPound

CasaPound Italy
CasaPound Italia
Leader Gianluca Iannone
Founded 26 December 2003
Youth wing Blocco Studentesco
Ideology Neo-fascism[1]
Ultranationalism[2]
Colors      Black
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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European Parliament
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Website
casapounditalia.org

CasaPound Italy (Italian: CasaPound Italia, CPI) is an Italian political movement founded in Rome on 26 December 2003 with the squatting of a state-owned building in the neighbourhood of Esquilino in Rome. In 2010, 23 families and a total of 82 people lived in CasaPound.[3] Subsequently, the phenomenon is spreading with other squatting, demonstrations and various initiatives, becoming a political movement. In June 2008 CasaPound therefore constituted an "association of social promotion" and assumed the current name CasaPound Italy – CPI.

History

Previously, 2006 CasaPound was associated with Tricolour Flame but now has its own movement, CasaPound Italy, extending all over Italy with many social centers.

While CPI does not recognize the classic definitions of right and left,[4] it is commonly placed in the view of the political groups and movements of the Italian radical right.

In 2011 it was estimated that CasaPound Italy had 5,000 members.[5]

Ideology

One feature of this movement, according to sociologist Emanuele Toscano, is to present "a different interpretation of fascism aimed at overcoming the dichotomy of right-left".[6]

Casapound has a Fascist Ideology. The name, inspired by the poet Ezra Pound, in particular, refers to his Cantos against usury, criticisms of the economic positions of both capitalism and Marxism, and its membership of the Italian Social Republic. It also gives particular attention to the Manifesto of Verona, the Labour Charter of 1927 and social legislation of Fascism itself. The symbol is a stylized turtle with an octagonal shell

Activities

CasaPound rally in Naples.

The social center has its own musical band, Zetazeroalfa, an association of civil protection and promotes sports (hiking, parachuting, diving and other disciplines), union activities, and recreational activities, including a theater company, web radio, web television and a monthly magazine.

CasaPound has promoted initiatives outside the Italian territory through its non-profit organization Solidarité Identités.[7] The activities of the movement have been the subject of attention by some foreign media.[8][9][10]

From the period of activity of the first social center then were organized and cultural meetings with several guests, including writer Nicolai Lilin,[11] the LGBT deputy Paola Concia,[12] an ex-Red Brigades Valerio Morucci,[13] and the Chinese community.[14]

The main CasaPound political proposal is the so-called Mutuo Sociale (Social Mortgage),[15] as a response to the problem of housing which, according to official data, involving approximately 23,000 households throughout Italy. In October 2011, the Lazio Region officially approved it within its "House Plan".[16]

Starting with the 2011 elections CasaPound presented their candidates in local elections in civic lists or center-right and succeeded in electing its representatives.[17] At regional and national elections of 2013 CasaPound Italy announced that it will present its civic lists throughout Italy.

Youth wing

Logo of Blocco Studentesco, the youth wing of CasaPound.

In 2006, the movement that arose around the first community center was endowed with its student organization, under the name Students' Block (Italian: Blocco Studentesco).[18] Francesco Polacchi is the General Secretary of Students' Block.

Their logo resembles that of the British Union of Fascists.

Questions have been submitted by parliamentarians of the Democratic Party about fascist propaganda and the violence of the student movement.[19]

International meetings

Over the years the leaders of CasaPound Italy have been invited to explain his “political model” in many of the major European capitals (Paris, Madrid, London, Lisbon, Brussels)[20] and has been the subject of some reports by foreign media.[8][9]

In 2011 the Finnish Resistance Movement also invited members of CasaPound to a seminar in Helsinki.[21] This shows an ability of the European nationalists to organize beyond ideological differences. The Finnish Resistance Movement represents national socialism.[22] The Finnish Security Intelligence Service researched the connections of the Finnish Resistance Movement to CasaPound after the Gianluca Casseri shootings.[23]

Symbolic figures

The party's choice of American poet Ezra Pound as a symbol of the movement has caused controversy with his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, who claimed it distorts the meaning of Pound's work and represents a "misappropriation" of his image.[24]

They have also caused controversy with their celebrations of some characters from the world of culture and politics such as Che Guevara and Bobby Sands who are not usually associated with the extreme right.

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Una Nazione" (PDF). CasaPound. 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.globalproject.info/it/in_movimento/reggio-emilia-contro-ogni-nazionalismo-per-uneuropa-di-diritti-e-dignita/15574
  3. ↑ (Italian) Mario Bernardi Guardi, "Sono fascisti i ragazzi di Casa Pound e del Blocco Studentesco? È da qualche anno che politici, giornalisti, sociologi si pongono la domanda ed è da qualche anno che non riescono a dare e a darsi una risposta convincente," Il Tempo (22/10/2010). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  4. ↑ (Italian) "Manifesto dell’Estremocentroalto" (18 October 2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  5. ↑ Tom Kington, "Italy's fascists stay true to Mussolini's ideology,"The Guardian (6 November 2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  6. ↑ Emanuele Toscano & Daniele Di Nunzio "Can We Still Speak about Extreme Right Movements? Casapound in Italy between Community and Subjectivation Drives," XVII World Congress of Sociology (14 July 2010). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  7. ↑ http://www.solidarite-identites.org/
  8. 1 2 (German) Giulia Basile, "Mussolinis Enkel. "Casa Pounds" rechte Jugendzentren in Italien," 3sat.de (07.03.2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  9. 1 2 "Italian far right get boost amidst country's economic troubles," RT (March 07, 2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  10. ↑ Муссолини вместо Берлускони?
  11. ↑ (Italian) Spadaccino Maria Rosaria, "Nicolai Lilin: «Andare a CasaPound è un dovere»," Corriere della Sera (10 September 2009). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  12. ↑ http://www.altroquotidiano.it/?p=13651
  13. ↑ (Italian) "Morucci a Casapound: folla lo applaude, nemici ma senza discriminazione," L'Unita (6 February 2009). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  14. ↑ (Italian) Ilaria Misantoni, "CasaPound incontra la comunità cinese," (20 December 2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  15. ↑ (Italian) Mutuo Sociale
  16. ↑ http://www.regione.lazio.it/consiglioweb/dettaglio_comunicati.php?vms=172&vmf=&id=2165
  17. ↑ (Italian) " Amministrative: CasaPound, Cinque Consiglieri Eletti," agenparl.it (19 May 2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  18. ↑ CasaPound and the new radical right in Italy
  19. ↑ (Italian) Giuseppe Berretta, "Interrogazione Parlamentare PD contro il Blocco Studentesco" (21 April 2010).
  20. ↑ (Italian) "CasaPound Italia: in 1.500 alla festa nazionale" (21 September 2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  21. ↑ "City of Helsinki rented space to neo-Nazi group," YLE News (31.10.2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  22. ↑ (Finnish) Mikael Brunila, "Ei ole yhtä äärioikeistoa - keitä Suomen vastarintaliike kutsui Helsinkiin?," Suomen Kuvalehti (21.10.2011; uptaded: 29.11.2013). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  23. ↑ "Supo looks into possible Finnish connection to Florence shooter," YLE (15.12.2011). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
  24. ↑ Tom Kingtom, "Ezra Pound's daughter fights to wrest the renegade poet's legacy from fascists," The Observer (14 January 2012). Retrieved 14-12-2013.
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