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Mussolini in Myth and Memory

Paul Corner History News Network
There is growing fascination and nostalgia for dictators, extreme right-wing government in some countries and “illiberal democracy” in others. Why is this? What has happened to permit such a distortion of memory? How do myths replace reality?

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Meet the Original Fascists

Steven Wishnia The Indypendent
History’s first fascist regime violently seized power in Italy in 1922. It continues to inspire the far right a century later.

Peace in Rome

Roberto Morea , Roberto Musacchio Transform! Europe
We held a massive pacifist rally for a diplomatic solution in Europe, where warmongering rages among the ruling classes. With radical rightists in government and a dismal centre-left, it is a movement to prevent catastrophe and give us back dignity.

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Reader Comments, Elections - It's The Economy and Abortions; Lessons of Cuban Missile Crisis; Socialist Lessons; Announcements: Communists in Closets; Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century; The Farmer-Labor Movement; Cartoons; more....
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