Introduction. How Dark Is the Night? The Meloni Government and Anti-Fascism: A Brief Diary
Busts, Foibe and “Orangutan”
The Ardeatine Caves: a Massacre Against Italians
Ethnic Replacement
A Constitution That Is Not Anti-fascist
The Nation
Italians, Good People
The Bologna Massacre
Antisemitism
What is a Generative Tradition?
Bibliographical Note
1. The Origins: Anti-Fascism as a Programme of Transformation
Liberalism and Democracy: Words in History, the History of Words
Citizenship, Nation, “Race”
Italy in the Global Colonial Order
The Historical Conditions for the Formation of Anti-fascism
Anti-fascism as a Programme of Transformation
Anti-fascism, Resistance, Constitution
Conclusion
Bibliographical Note
2. The New Meanings of Anti-Fascism in the Republican Decades
From Patriarchy and Eugenics to the Rights of Women and Children
Youth, Consumption and Citizenship as Full Membership of the Community
Third Worldism, Decolonisation, and National Liberation Movements
The Racism of Others and Our Own
The Long 1968
The Crisis
It Begins with F but It is not Folly
Conclusion
Bibliographical Note
3. After the Crisis: In Search of the Fireflies
The Emergence of the Anti-Racist Movement
Pacifism, Democracy, and Empire
An Epochal Exhibition: The Lie of Race.
Ultras and Immigrants: The Anti-Racist World Cup
The “No Global” Movement
Decolonising and Defascistising Italy’s Cirenaiche
“Overturned Walls Become Bridges”. Non Una di Meno (NUDM)
#WeRiseUp. The GKN Working Class
Conclusion
Bibliographical Note
Conclusions: Legacy and Nostalgia for the Future
Bibliographical Note
Index
Biography
Andrea Rapini is Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Sociology and Business Law at the University of Bologna.
