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With economic crises and a massive influx¹ of migrants, extreme right-wing movements have gained a lot of ground in Europe. Italy is no exception. As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, seven decades after the fall of Mussolini's dictatorship, some neo-fascist² groups are setting their sights on getting back into parliament.

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in foreign language).

SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE³: Several thousand angry Italians are marching in downtown Rome. They're protesting a bill granting citizenship⁴ to children born in Italy to long-term resident foreigners. Sara Polimeno came from the northern Piedmont region to demand a stop to migrants.

SARA POLIMENO: (Through interpreter) There is an invasion of Muslims imposing⁵ their religion on us. They have different customs and culture. And they're upsetting all our habits. They're demanding too much. Enough.

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in foreign language).

POGGIOLI: Protesters shout, homeland, employment and identity. We will defend our civilization - buzzwords reminiscent of fascist ideology⁶. Giovanni Orsina, political science professor at Rome's Luiss University, says pockets of hard-core fascist sympathizers have long existed in Italy.

GIOVANNI ORSINA: This area of nostalgia⁷, of ideological⁸ persistence⁹ of fascism - today has more leeway - can use the new issues of migration¹⁰, identity in order to grow stronger.

POGGIOLI: One neo-fascist group riding the anti-migrant wave is Casa Pound, named after American poet Ezra Pound - a fascist propagandist during World War II. It has spearheaded violent actions against migrant housing and aggressive confrontation¹¹ with migrant vendors¹² on the Roman seashore in Ostia.

In Ostia's recent municipal election, Casa Pound surged from 1 percent of votes cast four years ago to 9 percent. Posters had urged voters to send fighters to city hall and claimed we put Italians first - first in housing, welfare and education. With parliamentary elections next spring, Casa Pound is now aiming for a role on the national stage. Thirty-two-year-old Casa Pound leader Luca Marsella explains what it means to be a fascist today.

LUCA MARSELLA: (Through interpreter) It means to love Italy. It means giving one's self to the welfare of our nation to fight for the good of our nation.

POGGIOLI: With the arrival of more than 600,000 mostly African migrants in the last four years, racist¹³ incidents and extreme right-wing posts on social media have surged. The lower house has approved a government bill that would ban distribution of propaganda, images and symbols of fascist and Nazi¹⁴ ideologies¹⁵. Offenders¹⁶ risk up to two years in jail. MP Emanuele Fiano of the governing Democratic Party wrote the bill.

EMANUELE FIANO: (Through interpreter) This law doesn't punish a person who says I'm a fascist or Nazi. It punishes propaganda of ideas that are clearly against liberty and democracy.

POGGIOLI: Opposed by right-wing parties and the Maverick¹⁷ Five Star Movement, the bill is before the Senate. But with just a few months left in the legislature, it's not certain it can become law before the next election campaign. Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Rome.