Non ne possiamo più, di piangere per Ischia. Le nuove ed ennesime vittime travolte dall’ennesima frana venuta giù dal Monte Epomeo (guai a chiamarlo vulcano: porta iella…) vanno piante, onorate e affidate alla terra col cordoglio di tutti gli italiani. Non meno doveroso, però, sarà rispettare lo strazio delle famiglie nel modo più serio e severo, con un’inchiesta che dia il giusto peso alla gravità dell’evento atmosferico ma spazzi via i tentativi di dare tutta la colpa alla fatalità. Si sapeva, che poteva succedere ancora. Si sapeva.
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L’Église italienne laisse une porte ouverte à Giorgia Meloni car elle ne compromet pas le christianisme
La victoire électorale de Giorgia Meloni s’inscrit dans une montée des mouvements populistes d’extrême droite en Europe. Tous ces mouvements partagent l’hostilité envers les migrants et l’islam, l’euroscepticisme et la défense d’une identité nationale, voire, paradoxalement, européenne. Ils diffèrent néanmoins dans leur rapport au christianisme, même s’ils évoquent souvent l’identité ou les racines chrétiennes de l’Europe.
Une telle référence est, dans le nord de l’Europe, purement négative : elle sert à faire de l’islam l’autre par excellence, mais n’implique en rien la promotion de normes ou de valeurs chrétiennes. Les populistes du nord de l’Europe ont entériné l’évolution de la société et ne mettent pas en avant la lutte contre l’avortement ou le mariage homosexuel, quand ils n’ont pas tout simplement adopté les nouvelles valeurs libérales et féministes (comme le parti de Geert Wilders aux Pays-Bas).
En France, Marine Le Pen se rapproche de ce modèle : elle fait de la laïcité le cœur de l’identité française et ne remet en cause ni l’avortement, ni le mariage pour tous ; les idées de sa nièce « catho-tradi » ne percent pas dans le populisme français, comme l’a illustré l’échec électoral de Zemmour. Il se pourrait que ce modèle, laïque, anti-migrant, illibéral mais libertaire, se répande d’ailleurs vers le sud : le mode de vie des dirigeants populistes est la plupart du temps celui de leur génération, ayant grandi dans la permissivité (même Giorgia Meloni, qui défend les valeurs de la famille, a oublié de se marier et n’a rien d’une femme au foyer, tout en élevant sa fille). Les Églises n’ont donc pas trop de problèmes à prendre leur distance avec ces populistes.
Neofascismo en Italia: la involución de Europa
En 1922, Benito Mussolini formó y lideró un gobierno de coalición de diversos partidos de derechas. Aunque obtuvo solo el 8,15% de los votos, el líder del Partido Nacional Fascista llegó al poder doblando la mano del rey Saboya con la Marcha sobre Roma de las camisas negras. Un siglo justo después de aquella giornata particolare, está a punto de presidir el próximo Gobierno italiano una heredera espiritual de Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni, líder y renovadora del partido posfascista Fratelli d’Italia, que tiene su origen en el MSI (Movimiento Social Italiano) de Giorgio Almirante, un fascista que militó en la República de Saló, el último bastión mussoliniano aliado de los nazis en el norte de Italia.
Los grandes medios italianos y europeos han tratado de rebajar el alcance de esta escalofriante jornada electoral retorciendo el lenguaje y tirando de eufemismos. Algunos definen la unión de Meloni con la xenófoba Liga del Norte y el machismo-putinismo de Berlusconi como “el bloque de centro derecha”, “la coalición de las derechas” o la “alianza conservadora”, mientras otros, estirando el chicle por el qué dirán, hablan de “triunfo de la ultraderecha”.
Giorgia Meloni has won big in Italy, but there are many more obstacles to come
he first far-right prime minister in postwar western Europe will be a woman: Giorgia Meloni. Assuming the exit polls are right, which is likely as they are in line with the last polling before the elections, the far right-dominated “centre-right” bloc will win about 42% of the vote. Because of the disproportionate system, and the lack of an electoral coalition between the centre-left Democratic party and the reformed Five Star Movement, this will give them a massive majority in parliament.
The most important change is in the internal power dynamics within the “right bloc”. Until 2018, the coalition was dominated by Silvio Berlusconi, who was problematic from all kind of perspectives, but he was not far right. In 2018, Matteo Salvini’s Lega became slightly bigger than Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, but now Meloni’s “post-fascist” Brothers of Italy will dominate the bloc.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/giorgia-meloni-won-big-italy-many-obstacles
The Guardian view on Italy’s election: a victory for illiberalism
The radical right’s clear victory in Italy’s election is a historic and disturbing moment in European politics. Formed 10 years ago, and with roots in a formerly fringe neo-fascist tradition, Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party will dominate the most rightwing administration to govern the country in the postwar period. The third-largest economy in the eurozone and a founding member of the European Union, Italy has now become a beacon and a model for nationalist, authoritarian forces across the continent.
Throughout the election campaign, Ms Meloni has been at pains to distance herself and her party from historical links to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), set up by supporters of Benito Mussolini after the war. According to Italy’s next prime minister, the far right has been on “a journey”, and should now be considered a national conservative party comparable to the British Conservative party. But a more relevant benchmark is her close ally Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz in Hungary, which in power has developed a form of soft autocracy which Mr Orbán describes as “illiberal democracy”.
As Europe tilts right, Putin is heartened
Whether or not it prevails in last Sunday’s Swedish elections — results are too close to call — the strong showing of a right-wing bloc whose top vote-getter is a party with roots in neo-Nazi ideology is a troubling turn. Even more stunning would be what polls and political analysts are now predicting in Italy’s elections on Sept. 25: the outright victory of a far-right coalition whose history, values and policies pose a direct challenge to European unity, an outcome Russian dictator Vladimir Putin would celebrate and try to exploit.
Sweden is a small country whose shock at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine set it on a path to membership in NATO. Its domestic social problems — a spike in gang and gun violence that many Swedes associate with migrants — have impelled the rise of the right-wing bloc, especially the misleadingly named Sweden Democrats (whose founders included white supremacists) that received roughly 20 percent of the vote. If the bloc prevails, it would be a mistake to include that party in the government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/13/europe-elections-right-wing-putin/
Abortion rights at risk in region led by party of Italy’s possible next PM
When Giulia, 20, discovered she was pregnant she immediately decided that she wasn’t ready to have a baby. Supported by her boyfriend and family, she sought medical advice in her home town in Italy’s central Marche region on how to obtain an abortion. She faced obstacles at every turn, from telephones not being answered and surgeries being closed, to one doctor who tried to persuade her to change her mind.
Abortion in Italy was legalised in 1978, overturning an outright ban enforced by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini who deemed it a crime against the Italian race, but the high number of gynaecologists who refuse to terminate pregnancies for moral reasons – 64.6%, according to 2020 data – has meant women still encounter huge difficulties in accessing safe procedures.
The Future Is Italy, and It’s Bleak
“If this is to end in fire, then we should all burn together.”
These ominous words aren’t from an apocalyptic poem: They’re from a politician’s memoir. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, opened her 2021 book with this strange call to arms, eschewing the more prosaic style favored by most politicians. But then Ms. Meloni, whose party carries the symbol adopted by defeated lieutenants of the Mussolini regime and describes itself as “post-fascist,” is hardly a mainstream political figure.
At least, she didn’t use to be. Yet just two months after Ms. Meloni published her best-selling memoir, her party topped national opinion polls for the first time. Since then, it has continued to boast over 20 percent support and has provided the only major opposition to Mario Draghi’s technocratic coalition. On Wednesday, in a sudden turn of events, the government collapsed. Early elections, due in the fall, could open the way for the Brothers of Italy to become the first far-right party to lead a major eurozone economy. For Europe and the country, it would be a truly seismic event.
‘The only Black person in the room’: The truth about racism in Italy
hat makes a person of colour Italian is a question that is approached in two different ways: the racist approach and the anti-racist approach taken by progressives. The unconscious racism often denounced by the latter is – take this opinion with a grain of salt – a minor evil. What is unconscious racism? It’s a question like the one I’m often asked: “Do you ever think of going back to Sri Lanka?”
I am, like many children of immigrants in Italy, a person with a pretty stable life. Sure, I don’t know how my life will be ten years from now, so I can’t completely exclude the possibility that one day I might migrate elsewhere. But it is reasonable to presume that I will always stay in the West. Still, this is a frequent question, one of a series of other questions that Italians of colour are often asked.
“How come you speak Italian so well?” “How do you say ‘dad’ in your language?” “Are your parents cleaners?” The kind of sentences that range from badly expressed compliments to stereotypes and provocations. We perceive them all as micro-aggressions.
But I’m sure the dishwasher who was beaten up after work “because he’s a nigger” doesn’t care that your neighbour told you that you speak Italian very well. The problem for the graduate who can’t teach because he doesn’t have citizenship, despite living in Genoa since he was two years old, is not being asked if he is Italian; the problem is because he is not yet Italian.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/truth-racism-italy-book/
Draghi Isn’t Coming to Italy’s Rescue Anymore
Italian politics bears a striking resemblance to South American telenovelas: filled with episodes of unrequited love, bizarre couplings and multiple breakups. Narrative lines reach a fever pitch of crisis before an unexpected turn of events makes everything right — the deus-ex-machina moment. That’s the climax in ancient dramas when a god is swung on stage by a machine to snatch away a troublesome character who can’t be written out of the script otherwise.
The Italian left, led by the Democratic Party, is now hoping for a deus-ex-machina moment after its election strategy came undone with the sudden departure of a centrist ally just four days after they’d agreed to join forces against the surging right. But who will play God? The party is betting on the sacred aura of Mario Draghi.
Idler on a hammock 