Alba Sidera i Gallart (born 1979,
Girona
Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...
) is a Catalan journalist and author, based in Italy. Correspondent of the newspaper
El Punt-Avui in
Rome
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since 2012, she is a specialist in the study of far-right movements in
Italian politics
The politics of Italy are conducted through a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum and a constituent assembly was electe ...
. As a journalist, she collaborates in various media such as
La Directa
''Setmanari de Comunicació Directa'', usually known as ''La Directa'', is a biweekly magazine in Catalan language published in Barcelona and distributed in paper and digital format. The headquarters are in Sants, a neighbourhood of Barcelona, even ...
,
Ctxt and Mèdia.cat. She is a member of the Ramon Barnils Group of Journalists.
In 2019, she received an honorable mention from the magazine Pensamiento al margen for her informative article "The trap of post-ideology protects the mediocre" («La trampa de la postideología ampara a los mediocres»), and in 2020 she published her first book, ''Feixisme persistent'', (Persistent Fascism), a journalistic work, the result of years of research in the field in which she explains the survival of
fascist
Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...
ideology, the exaltation of the figure of
Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...
and the rise of the populist politician
Matteo Salvini
Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been List of Federal ...
in the
Italian peninsula.
Books
* ''Feixisme persistent'' (Persistent fascism) (Saldonar, 2020)
References
1979 births
Living people
Journalists from Catalonia
People from Girona
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