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From Churchill to NATO: How the West built & empowered Italian Fascism
From Churchill to NATO: How the West built & empowered Italian Fascism
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mronline.org From Churchill to NATO: How the West built and empowered Italian fascism | MR Online
This year is the centenary of the March on Rome, the coup that brought Mussolini’s fascist party to power in Italy in 1922.
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Sir Samuel Hoare—later Lord Templeton—was a key player in the creation in Britain of the “Anti-Socialist Union“, a gang organized by the Conservative Party, which harassed trade union actions and mobilizations. The ASU was a model of fascist violence against workers’ struggles. In short, as Careghino told the Times:
Mussolini’s career between 1917 and 1922 would not have taken the path we know without the influence of the British conservative establishment.