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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’ became a slur, repeatedly used by Donald Trump as a synonym for ‘left-wing terrorist’. My gene...