and the courage to say, well, 0k, fascism was good on this and this and that, and maybe not good in other things. so as a reaction, i really, i accept, i don t refuse the term of fascism. but are you denying that the fascist regime was violent and criminal? yes, absolutely, i deny that. mussolini signed the racial laws, i mean, he deported, this was a regime that deported jews to death camps, that outlawed the opposition, that put political opponents in internment camps. are you honestly saying that you support those measures? the internment camps are things that happened with the war. the americans did it, the germans did it, the italians did it, and so on. i m talking about people who were gassed, who were shot, who were exterminated for their religion. fascism has never been accused of this. i m talking about fascism as a regime. mussolini and all his ministers have never been tried for this. do you believe that this
Italian lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to back a long-delayed project to build a Holocaust Museum in Rome, underlining the urgency of the undertaking following the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters in what have been deemed the deadliest attacks on Jews since the Holocaust. The Holocaust Museum project was revived last spring by Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government. It languished for years due to bureaucratic hurdles but also what many see as a reluctance to examine the role of Italy’s fascist regime as a perpetrator of the Holocaust.
here s david sillito. # god save the queen. # the fascist regime.# 1977, the silverjubilee and the british record buying public marked it by sending a widely banned song, with what was considered an outrageous cover, to the top of the charts. if any one image captures the spirit of that punk moment, it s this byjamie reid. it was to provoke, to stir, to encourage particularly working class kids to create bands, to do things for themselves. # god save the queen.# you get a situation where your artwork is banned, the band can t play. but in the case of god save the queen, what happens to that image is that it gets printed, you know, tens of millions of copies get printed on the front page of the newspapers. the lettering looked like cutouts for a ransom note, the images reflected his radical politics, that went back to the 60s and art school,