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Casa Pound
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27-01-2013, 05:56 AM
An Italian friend gave me this information today. New to me but unsurprising. An interesting exercise in re-branding. But same old shit.
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[TD="class: agent"]Gianluca Iannone[/TD]
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[TD]26 December 2003[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]www.casapounditalia.org[/TD]
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Political parties
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CasaPound is a Social center of fascist inspiration founded in Rome on 26 December 2003 with the squatting of a state-owned building in neighbourhood of Esquilino in Rome. In 2010 living in CasaPound 23 families for a total of 82 people[SUP][1][/SUP].
Subsequently, the phenomenon is spreading with other squatting, demonstrations and various initiatives, becoming a political movement. In June 2008 CasaPound is therefore constitutes an association of social promotion and assumed the current nameCasaPound Italy CPI.

Before 2006 CasaPound was associated with Tricolour Flame but now CasaPound has his own movement, CasaPound Italy, extended all over the Italian territory with many social centers.History

While not officially recognizing the classic definitions of right and left[SUP][2][/SUP] CPI is commonly placed in the view of the political groups and movements of the Italian radical right.
In 2011 is stimated than CasaPound Italy has 5000 members.[SUP][3][/SUP]
Ideology

According to the Swiss historian Aram Mattioli, the phenomenon of CasaPound would be inserted in the revival of right-wing movements in Italy especially thanks to the "clearance" of the Italian right initiated by the first government of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994-95 involving and legitimized the Italian Social Movement [SUP][4][/SUP]. 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"[SUP][5][/SUP]. According to the German historian Volker Weiss "CasaPound has succeeded in creating an environment appealing to some young fusing pop culture and neo-fascism"[SUP][6][/SUP].
The name, inspired by the poet Ezra Pound, in particular, refers to his Cantos against usury, the economic positions of critical both tocapitalism and Marxism and its membership of the Italian Social Republic. References political association are more specifically related fascist ideology, with particular attention to the Manifesto of Verona, the Labour Charter of 1927 and social legislation of Fascism itself. The chosen symbol is a stylized turtle, the shell octagonal.
Activities

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, a web radio, a web tv and a monthly magazine.
CasaPound has promoted initiatives outside the Italian territory through his non-profit organization Solidarité Identités[SUP][7][/SUP]. The activities of the movement have been the subject of attention by some foreign media [SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP][SUP][10][/SUP].
From the period of activity of the first social center then were organized and cultural meetings with several guests, including writerNicolai Lilin[SUP][11][/SUP], the LGBT deputy Paola Concia[SUP][12][/SUP], an ex-Red Brigades Valerio Morucci[SUP][13][/SUP], and the Chinese community[SUP][14][/SUP].
The main CasaPound political proposal is the so-called Mutuo Sociale (Social Mortgage)[SUP][15][/SUP], as a response to the problem of the housing which, according to official data, involving approximately 23,000 households throughout Italy. In October 2011, the Lazio Region officially approves it within the "House Plan"[SUP][16][/SUP].
Starting with the 2011 elections CasaPound presented their candidates in local elections in civic lists or center-right and succeeded in electing its representatives[SUP][17][/SUP]. At regional and national elections of 2013 CasaPound Italy announced that it will present its civic lists throughout Italy.
In 2006, the movement that arose around the first community center was endowed with its student organization, under the nameStudents' Block.
Controversy

Because of the explicit reference to the ideology and history of fascism, CasaPound has been the subject of much criticism and protests. In particular, questions have been submitted by parliamentarians of the Italian Democratic Party about fascist propaganda and the violence of the student movement[SUP][18][/SUP]. Numerous disputes have occurred at the opening of homes of the movement in various cities of Italy by left-wing political parties and antifascists groups.
Having adopted Ezra Pound as a symbol of the movement has caused controversy with the daughter of the American poet, Mary de Rachewiltz, who experienced a distortion of the meaning of the work of Ezra Pound speaking openly of a "misappropriation" the image of his father[SUP][19][/SUP].
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.
Over the years CasaPound found itself at the center of several episodes of violence, both as a party and as the injured party. There are numerous attacks that groups, political parties and the left claim to have suffered by members of CasaPound. The founder and president of Gianluca Iannone in 2009 was sentenced to four years for first degree assault on a police officer in plain clothes during a fight April 25, 2004. For its part, the association reported numerous attacks on militants CasaPound Italy and Student Block, as well as attacks on their homes and occupations by militants of various left-wing groups. CasaPound Italy has also presented hundreds of lawsuits for slander and defamation received in the press.
See also External links

CasaPound website
English interview with the leader of Casa Pound
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