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A furore has erupted in a town in the southern province of Avellino after a music teacher gave a group of middle-school students the sheet music for a Fascist march ahead of Thursday's Liberation Day national holiday, when Italy celebrates the end of Fasci... (ANSA)

A furore has erupted in a town in the southern province of Avellino after a music teacher gave a group of middle-school students the sheet music for a Fascist march ahead of Thursday's Liberation Day national holiday, when Italy celebrates the end of Fasci... (ANSA)

Igiaba Scego takes on the troubled history of the popular Mussolini-era song "Faccetta nera" in an essay confronting Italy's colonial history.

An estimated 2,000 people marched on Sunday in Predappio, the birthplace of Italian fascist dictator Mussolini, to mark the centenary of the March on Rome.

25 May 2021Politics Certain words make you feel like you belong to another time. You think you’re at home in the present, but then you’re forced to think again. For me, one such word is ‘antifa’. For the entirety of my childhood, youth and adult life the term ‘fascist’ was the most injurious of insults: the shortened epithet – ‘fascio’ in Italian, ‘facho’ in French – recalling the similar abbreviation that gives us the word Nazi. Then, all of a sudden, ‘anti-fascist�...

7 Issues of International Women’s Writing to Read on #IWD2021 Image: Farazeh Syed, Attire (cropped), acrylic on canvas, 4 x 5 ft, 2016. By arrangement with the artist. ​ Happy International Womens Day! In celebration of this special day, weve selected seven outstanding issues of womens writing in translation from the WWB archives. Featuring work from Sudan, Hungary, Taiwan, Tunisia, China, and more, these issues offer a glimpse of the range and diversity of contemporary womens writing fro...

Veneto schools chief sings Fascist song FdI councillor sparks row with Little Black Face march 11 Gennaio 2021 VENICE, JAN 11 - The education councillor in the northeastern Veneto region has sparked a row by singing a popular Fascist-era song on Italian radio. Elena Donazzan of the nationalist Brothers of Italy (FdI) party sang Faccetta Nera (Little Black Face), a marching song about Italian colonial troops in Ethiopia rescuing an Abyssinian girl from slavery and teaching her about civilised li...

The True Story of “Faccetta Nera” Igiaba Scego takes on the troubled history of the popular Mussolini-era song "Faccetta nera" in an essay confronting Italys history of colonialism and Fascism. “I was on a TV talk show the other day, and something curious happened.” Those are the opening words of a Facebook post that Maryan Ismail, an Italo-Somali political activist, published recently. The curious thing that happened occurred in a television studio. Maryan, who is a longtime political...