"Help, the fascists are coming back!"
The alarm is inscribed in blood red on the ocher wall of a pretty decrepit building in La Garbatella.
This popular district in the south of Rome, built a hundred years ago to house the working class, was once a stronghold of anti-fascism, then of the powerful Italian Communist Party in the second half of the 20th century.
It's been a bit boho since then, but largely keeps its heart on the left… even if Giorgia Meloni likes to repeat that the Garbatella is the neighborhood of her childhood!
As a symbol of a fragmented and struggling left in today's legislative elections.
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