Fascism
Festivals, Food and Fascism
Italy’s “sagre” or food festivals have less to do with ancient roots and more to do with modern politics than many now realize. From fascists to communists, politicians have long sought to use these celebrations of cuisine and locality to construct political identities.
An Unexpected Solidarity
In the 1930s, a group of French women pacifists in Tunisia fighting against fascism began to see the oppression of French rule up close — and became allies of the country’s independence movement.
My Grandpa, the Fascist?
Leafing through an old family photo album led the author to a personal reckoning with Italy’s dark past in Libya — at a time when telling the often forgotten and sidelined story of the country’s fascist exploits abroad seems more urgent than ever.
The Postwar Revival of British Fascism
In 1946, years of war against the Axis powers had affected every man, woman and child in the U.K. Yet violence from Zionist paramilitary groups in Mandatory Palestine provided the opening for a campaign of antisemitism and a brief revival of Britain's own fascist movement.