'Freedom-killing measures by the government', the controversy returns to a history text

A school history textbook, published by Laterza, intended for high schools and which was already at the center of controversy in June last year, is back in discussion. This is the text 'Trame del tempo', which in one passage speaks of the Meloni government as a government that "stands out in the implementation of clearly liberticidal measures".

This time the controversy is revived by parliamentarian Galeazzo Bignami (FdI), who saw the text among the novelties on sale on the book platforms intended for high schools. In the offending paragraph we read that the Meloni government, "which came to power for the first time a century after the March on Rome and seventy-seven years after the Liberation from fascism", is "the party that has inherited its legacy and which continues to have a close relationship with its openly fascist 'base' - as also demonstrated by the Fanpage investigation of June 2024 'Gioventù meloniana'". He then goes on to say that the executive "stands out in the implementation of openly liberticidal measures, such as the so-called "Security" bill of September 2024, which significantly contracts the right to demonstrate."

The Meloni government also continues the war on migrants with renewed fervor, with deportation plans and their constant criminalization in the media". Minister Valditara said he was "saddened because this book expresses biased assessments and a biased narrative and therefore does not accustom the critical spirit but risks being functional to the indoctrination of students". Already a year and a half ago the minister had asked the Italian Publishers Association for a quick check on the correctness of the information and historical facts reported in the textbook and had recalled that "that volumes that contain offensive phrases or tendentious statements, which alter the truth of the facts, betraying the seriousness of the historical reconstruction which is the basis of a democratic school cannot be adopted