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Historian of Italy, Europe editor @jacobin, columnist @NewStatesman. My latest book is ‘Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy’
Sep 2, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Clinton said far-right Giorgia Meloni becoming Italy’s first woman PM would be ‘a break with the past, always a good thing, but like any leader she should be judged by what she does’. During this campaign, Meloni published a video of a woman being raped.

corriere.it/esteri/22_sett… The video showed a Guinean man raping a Ukrainian woman in Piacenza, Meloni yesterday told a rally that ‘they’ (the Left) objected to her posting it because ‘in their rock-paper-scissors, an illegal beats a raped woman’. Yet the victim herself protested the video’s circulation.
Jul 27, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read
The many occasions Giorgia Meloni promoted great replacement theory. A thread. 1/ This is a classic expression of all elements of the theory, together: "the project of ethnic substitution of European citizens, desired by big capital and international speculators", as facilitated by Italian liberals in the EU 2/ Image