Italy: Report on anti-fascist vigil in Fano

On the afternoon of Saturday 3 March, around 30 comrades held a vigil at the premises of the Fano branch of the FdCA, around a hundred metres from the square where the neo-nazi party Forza Nuova were holding a grim, but poorly-attended public meeting.

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Report on anti-fascist vigil in Fano

On the afternoon of Saturday 3 March, around 30 comrades of various political and syndicalist organizations held a vigil at the premises of the Fano branch of the FdCA, around a hundred metres from the square where the neo-nazi party Forza Nuova [FN - "New Force"] were holding a grim, but poorly-attended public meeting. We were thus able to provide a point of reference to those comrades of the Rete Antifascista [Anti-fascist Network] who had remained in the area (many were in Bologna at the time for the big demo against the immigrant detention centres) and maintain a suitable level of anti-fascist vigilance.

Despite the fact that (at least) this time, there were no Nazi or Fascist symbols displayed during the FN meeting (just Italian tricolours and FN flags), there are still too many instances in Fano of worrying acts of provocation and intimidation by bands of Nazi-skins in public places against young comrades and immigrants, in a climate of impunity and low visibility in the local media, and a political-administrative climate that is favourable to the right.

The Rete Antifascista has planned a series of initiatives of a historical and cultural nature, which will culminate next 25th April (the day Italy commemorates its liberation from fascism and nazism), in an attempt to halt the rise of the right in the Fano area and in the wider Pesaro area.

FdCA - Nestor Makhno Branch, Fano/Pesaro