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90 years on, why are British Jews being erased from the heroic Battle of Cable Street?
By Robert Philpot
Surging antisemitism and rise of far-right color anniversary, alongside schism with British left that conveniently leaves Jews out of their own historical stand against the police to take on fascism
People hold a banner in Italian reading "Skin and sweat have the same color, no deportation' during a march in Rome, June 13, 2026, to protest Italy's security and migration package, including a migrant "repatriation bonus" scheme criticized by opposition parties and legal groups as unconstitutional and ethically problematic. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
June 13, 2026, 9:57 pm
Thousands march through Rome in rival anti- and pro-migration rallies
As far-right demonstrators perform fascist salutes and praise Mussolini, a larger crowd of counter-protesters wave Palestinian flags and back migrant rights
By AP
Jerry Wartski, 94, in a video expressing support for former US president and Republican 2024 candidate Donald Trump, October 26, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 26, 2024, 7:26 pm
In campaign ad, Holocaust survivor blasts Harris for calling Trump ‘fascist’
Jerry Wartski, who was held at Auschwitz, says he ‘knows more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know’ and that she owes survivors an apology, calls GOP candidate ‘a mensch’
By AP and ToI Staff
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a final media conference at the G7 in Borgo Egnazia, near Bari in southern Italy, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
July 3, 2024, 7:00 pm
Italian PM condemns her far-right party’s youth wing for glorifying fascism
Giorgia Meloni says ‘no space for racist or antisemitic position’ in Brother of Italy after news investigation revealed young members praising Mussolini and yelling ‘Sieg Heil’
By AP
Illustrative: Members of National Youth, the youth wing of the Brothers of Italy party, hold a banner reading "Homeland" as they attend a joint rally of Italy's right-wing parties at Piazza del Popolo in Rome, September 22, 2022. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)
June 20, 2024, 12:28 am
Italian PM’s party shrugs off video of youth wing members performing fascist salutes
Far-right Brothers of Italy claims investigative media report into National Youth, which also featured shouts of ‘Seig Heil’ and ‘Duce,’ shows ‘fragmented, decontextualized images’
By AFP
Demonstrators stand next to and on the statue The Triumph of the Republic on Place de la Nation as they take part in an anti far-right rally in Paris on June 15, 2024 (Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)
June 16, 2024, 3:52 am
French protesters denounce far right ahead of elections; some chant ‘Free Palestine’
250,000 people turn out to demonstrate amid fears the vote will produce France’s first far-right government since World War II
By jade le deley and Elise Morton
Rome's Mayor Roberto Gualtieri (C) and Roberto Salis (3rdL) father of Italian activist detained in Hungary, Ilaria, take part in a rally organized by the National Association of Italian Partisans (Anpi) to mark the 79th anniversary of Liberation Day, in Rome on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
April 25, 2024, 11:16 pm
Italy’s Liberation Day celebrations marred by controversy surrounding fascism
State-run media spikes anti-fascist speech by author who criticized right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and denounced lingering authoritarian ideologies
By Nicole Winfeld
This picture taken from a publicly distributed police video shows some of the items recovered in the homes of 24 people investigated for apology of Fascism in Ferrara, northern Italy, February 14, 2024. (Italian Police via AP)
February 15, 2024, 1:04 pm
Hailing Hitler, mocking Anne Frank: Italy probes 24 over racist event in Jewish area
Investigator says suspects being investigated for promoting fascism; they threatened to kill other diners, refused to stop even after police arrived, insulted Black Italian athlete
By AP and ToI Staff
People appear to give the banned fascist salute during a rally to commemorate the 1978 murder of two members of a neo-fascist youth group, in Rome, January 7, 2024. (Screen capture: X. Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 10, 2024, 4:59 pm
Italian opposition demands probe after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally
Illicit Mussolini homage provokes ire from detractors of far-right government, inspires worry in Jewish community; minister criticizes action, resists calls to ban group
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Clockwise from right: 'Fascism in America,' edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld and Janet Ward; American Nazi supporters salute at an event in White Plains, New York, in the 1930s (AP photo); Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol building in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
December 21, 2023, 8:58 pm
Is American democracy safe? These historians say the US may be slipping toward fascism
The editors of ‘Fascism in America: Past and Present’ posit that though most Americans see the idea as ‘unrealistic in the extreme,’ there’s nothing fictional about it
By Cathryn J. Prince
Hitler and Francisco Franco give the Nazi salute as they walk by German soldiers at the train station at Hendaye, France, October 23, 1940. (Public domain)
September 5, 2023, 5:22 am
How dictator Franco built his regime vilifying the Jews, then tried to hide it
In his new book ‘Architects of Terror,’ Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain’s ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy for Jewish refugees
By JP O’ Malley
People march in the hometown of former dictator Benito Mussolini to mark the 100th anniversary of the coup d'etat by which he sized power in 1922, in Predappio, Italy, on October 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 30, 2022, 8:25 pm
Thousands of Italian fascist sympathizers stage rally in memory of Mussolini
Rome’s failure to fully come to terms with its past has never been more stark, as new PM Meloni seeks to distance her far-right Brothers of Italy party from its neo-fascist roots
By Colleen Barry
People gather during a march organized by the anti-fascist Italian Partisans association in Mussolini's birthplace Predappio, Italy, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 29, 2022, 3:08 am
Anti-fascists march in Mussolini’s birthplace as his supporters rally in Rome
Dueling events highlight Italy’s uneasy reckoning with its past as new Prime Minister Meloni takes helm of 1st postwar government led by a party with neo-fascist roots
By Paolo Santalucia and Luca Bruno
Posters commemorating the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome bearing a picture of Italian Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini reading: "Marching!" with a quote by Mussolini "you have to set yourself goals to have the courage to reach them" are posted on the Rome's public billboard space, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. The posters were later ordered removed by Rome's Mayor Roberto Gualtieri. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 28, 2022, 5:33 pm
Italian neo-fascists display pro-Mussolini banner 100 years after his rise to power
On bridge outside Rome’s Colosseum, supporters of fascist leader drape image depicting dictator in military uniform, with the words ‘100 years after, the march continues’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 27, 2022, 12:29 pm
Italy’s unresolved fascist past in spotlight as far-right government takes power
Unlike Germany, Italy never underwent process of erasing fascist symbols after World War II; even PM Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party retains flame emblem used by Mussolini
By Colleen Barry
Leader of Italian far-right party "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni holds a placard reading "Thank You Italy" after she delivered an address at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on September 26, 2022 in Rome, after the country voted in a legislative election. Meloni is on course to take power at the heart of Europe. (Andreas SOLARO / AFP)
September 26, 2022, 7:55 pm
US, EU signal willingness to work with Italy’s victorious far right
Europe’s nationalist parties warmly welcome apparent victory of Giorgia Meloni; Spanish FM warns ‘catastrophe’ always follows populists
By AFP and ToI Staff
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