Fascist

2022 - 12 - 29

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Italy's Jewish leaders condemn parliament pres for Fascist party ... (The Jerusalem Post)

Leaders within Italy's Jewish community were dismayed by his decision to link the Italian Social Movement, or MSI, to the post-World War II Italian ...

In November, she met with the World Jewish Congress as well as Italian Jewish Leaders, where she discussed antisemitism and, according to her office, gave a statement that “underlined the essential importance of Jewish communities for the Italian and European national identity.” His post is a disgrace to democratic institutions,” said Gianfranco Pagliarulo, national president of ANPI, an organization devoted to veterans of Italy’s anti-fascist resistance, according to La Pressa. “Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the promulgation of the Republican Constitution, the affirmation of our anti-fascist democracy,” Noemi Di Segni, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said on Tuesday in an op-ed in La Repubblica. Critics say she has emboldened fascist sympathizers, and last month photos of one of her appointed ministers wearing a Nazi armband over a decade ago sparked controversy. “The Italian Republic is anti-fascist and when one swears on the Constitution, it should be done knowing that there can no longer be ambiguity or inconsistency in this matter,” she wrote. Leaders within Italy’s Jewish community were dismayed by his decision to link MSI to the post-World War II Italian constitution.

Italian Jewish leaders slam parliament president for honoring neo ... (The Times of Israel)

Ignazio La Russa, co-founder of prime minister Meloni's FDI party, posts on Instagram linking his father's far-right faction to the anniversary of Italy's ...

Nonetheless, Meloni has attempted to make overtures to the Jewish community. His post is a disgrace to democratic institutions,” said Gianfranco Pagliarulo, national president of ANPI, an organization devoted to veterans of Italy’s anti-fascist resistance, according to La Pressa. “Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the promulgation of the Republican Constitution, the affirmation of our anti-fascist democracy,” Noemi Di Segni, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said on Tuesday in an op-ed in La Repubblica. Though La Russa founded FDI alongside Meloni in 2012, he spent much of his early career in politics as a part of MSI — which was co-founded by his father in 1946 — until its dissolution in 1995. “The Italian Republic is anti-fascist and when one swears on the Constitution, it should be done knowing that there can no longer be ambiguity or inconsistency in this matter,” she wrote. Leaders within Italy’s Jewish community were dismayed by his decision to link MSI to the post-World War II Italian constitution.

MSI had important role in Italian history says Meloni (ANSA)

Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday that the postwar neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, from which her conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) ...

On Monday La Russa marked the 76th anniversary of the MSI's founding on December 26 1946 by members of the Fascist WWII Italian Social Republic (RSI), a puppet State of the Nazis. (ANSA) - ROME, DEC 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday that the postwar neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, from which her conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) party is descended, had an important role in Italian history. "I believe that the MSI had a role in the Republican history of ferrying towards democracy millions of Italians who emerged defeated from the (Second World) War," said Meloni, adding that "it was a party of the Republican right, it took part in elections for the Italian presidency, it was fully present in democratic dynamics and it arrived in government before the (1995) congress that turned it into the (post-Fascist) National Alliance (the FdI's more iemmediate predecessor).

Today, We Remember the Women Who Liberated Yugoslavia From ... (Jacobin magazine)

Rajka Baković and Zdenka Baković were Croatian revolutionaries and members of the anti-fascist resistance movement. They were killed in Zagreb in the Nazi- ...

The chairwoman of the board, Marija Šoljan, held a To make matters worse, there is the recent political instability in Eastern Europe, together with the tensions of imperialist blocs that strengthen the gap between the global center and its periphery. Faced with this threat, fascism should be carefully studied and tracked down in all its forms and expressions, so that we can remain one step ahead of it and promptly nip it in the bud. It is a permanent threat, still attempting to reach the light of day. Women shed their blood in the fight against fascism, both on the front lines and behind the scenes. Another was the action in the Raša river valley, in which partisan women gathered overnight, equipped only with scissors, and managed to reap and steal seven hundred quintals of grain from under the enemy’s nose. The women of Yugoslavia joined this struggle without delay, forming a broad and united front of workers, peasants, and other civilians. So, let’s state the obvious — women’s social reproductive work was the backbone of the People’s Liberation Struggle. [Nada Cazi reports](http://afzarhiv.org/items/show/471) that there were more than a hundred thousand female fighters in the People’s Liberation Struggle. After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, and the subsequent Twelve-Day War, most of modern-day Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina were turned into the Nazi-puppet Independent State of Croatia. Eighty years ago, the Women’s Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia was founded to help resist the Axis powers and their local collaborators. They would leave packages or letters in order to arrange meetings, and the stand doubled as a supply point for the League of Communists of Croatia.

Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism – book review (Counterfire)

John Foot's Blood and Power explodes the myths of Mussolini's fascism in a powerful book drawn from contemporary experiences, finds Chris Bambery John ...

Today parliamentary democracy has not disintegrated so that it has become impossible to form a stable government, as it had when Mussolini appeared as a saviour for the bourgeoisie. Giorgia Meloni is not leading a black-shirted mass of fascist squadristi – though openly fascist groups are part of her Fratelli d’Italia and its members have been involved in racist attacks – but she does come from the fascist tradition, having joined in 1992. She has praised Mussolini and the MSI founder, Giorgio Almirante, who under Mussolini was a regular contributor to the antisemitic La Difesa della Razza (The Defence of the Race) and a minister in the Italian Social Republic. The myth of the regime was that it came to power with a revolution, the March on Rome, in October 1922. One of the myths about Italian fascism was that, unlike its counterpart in Germany, it was not antisemitic, but as Foot shows, while Mussolini would not turn on the Jews until the late 1930s, antisemitism was always present among the squadristi and their leaders. Thus there was the creation of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), the party formed by supporters of the former dictator Benito Mussolini, many of whom took part in the 1943-1945 the Italian Social Republic and the Republican Fascist Party. John Foot’s Blood and Power was written to mark the centenary of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism taking power in October 1922. The invasion of Ethiopia was a key turning point. In reality, the army kept the Blackshirts away from the capital, but when the government tried to get the king to declare a state of emergency, the military told him they would not enforce it or engage the fascists. It was only after Mussolini took power that the fascists dared to strike in Turin, the centre of the working class. Mussolini bided his time, sensing the opposition, which withdrew from parliament to attempt to set up a rival assembly, would do nothing more than issue words, in which he was correct. The fascists did receive reverses in Rome and Parma at the hands of the Arditi del Popola, anti-fascist ex-soldiers.

Texas increases anti-LGBTQ attacks, but anti-fascist victories... (Liberation)

The state of Texas has spent 2022 demonizing and attacking LGBTQ people. Whipping up a moral panic with hate speech pulled from corporate media headli.

But the third prong of this assault, the mobilized fascist militias, have met fierce resistance in every corner of the state. LGBTQ Texans will ring in the New Year in a state trying to criminalize every aspect of queer existence. Notably, many of the canceled shows are in cities where anti-fascism is strong, and were shut down by business owners before the community could rally to their defense. Neidert has called for the public execution of people for bringing children to drag shows. Neidert’s twin sister Kelly, a self-described “Christian fascist,” is the founder of the hate group This is not to mention the harm this would cause to actual drag performers, who are under constant threat of violence across the country. Texas legislators are increasingly bringing self-described fascists into the halls of power. The bill’s definition of “drag” is so broad that it would not just encompass drag artists, but all transgender performers. Texas legislators are trying to redefine and criminalize “drag” through HB 643 and HB 708. News anchors are endlessly repeating the lie that children are being “groomed” into being transgender, echoing anti-gay panics and Satanic cult conspiracy theories of decades past. But even as the attacks increase, popular movements have shut down the fascists in major cities and small towns alike, often greatly outnumbering them. This in turn has led to a steep increase in attacks against LGBTQ people.