Fratelli d'Italia leader Giorgia Meloni Italy’s 25 September general election was won by a “post-fascist” far-right party whose leader – almost certainly the next prime minister – still talks sympathetically about Mussolini’s regime. Italy is not about to become a fascist dictatorship; but this will be the most right-wing Italian government since Mussolini’s fall. It is a boost to the far right across the world and a brutal setback for Italy’s labour movement and oppressed people, who will need the greatest possible solidarity.