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DARK SECRETS: 4 - The Real Truth

Rai journalists strike over ‘suffocating control’ by Meloni’s government

Union calls for end to politicians’ interference in state broadcaster amid debate over censorship

The Guardian - UK

Italian towns split over moves to end honorary citizenship of Mussolini

Ustica stripped local recognition for fascist dictator in law snaring all those deceased, but debate continues elsewhere

The Guardian - UK

Italian author accuses state broadcaster of censorship of antifascist monologue

Outcry over cancellation of Antonio Scurati’s Rai talkshow appearance as note says move was taken ‘for editorial reasons’

The Guardian - UK

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Fascists’ feasts and grated rat: exhibition of vintage menus serves up slice of history

Parisian 1870 new year banquet of elephant fillet and the last lunch on the Titanic among menus on display at exhibition in Rome

The Guardian - UK

"A blueprint for a Trump autocracy"

Will a second Trump term bring a Putin-like dictatorship or the more subtle example of Hungary's Viktor Orbán?

Salon

Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler – by telling him Mussolini was ‘great guy’

Ex-president’s second chief of staff tried to convince him fascist dictator was ‘great guy in comparison’, John Kelly tells Jim Sciutto

The Guardian - US

Prosecutors launch investigation into plans for bridge to Sicily

Opposition lawmakers file complaint over planning, execution and transparency of Matteo Salvini project

The Guardian - UK

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Ethiopia hails return of its first plane, stolen by Mussolini in 1930s

Red two-seater named after Emperor Haile Selassie’s daughter abandoned in 1936 after Italy invaded country

The Guardian - UK

Italian opposition demands investigation after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally

Opposition politicians in Italy are demanding that police investigate a rally in Rome where hundreds of participants raised an arm in the banned fascist salute

The Independent UK

Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome

Hundreds of men shown making fascist salutes during gathering outside Italian Social Movement headquarters

The Guardian - UK

Boosting Italy’s birthrate has become a patriotic cause for the far right. But it’s an idea that’s doomed

With the country’s population tumbling, what Italy really needs is greater immigration, yet how could Giorgia Meloni sanction that, asks author Tobias Jones

The Guardian - UK

Vox leader’s ‘strung up’ remark about Spain PM referred to public prosecutor

Socialists claim Santiago Abascal’s comment about Pedro Sánchez is ‘incitement to hatred and even violence’

The Guardian - UK

La Scala's gala premiere of 'Don Carlo' is set to give Italian opera its due as a cultural treasure

Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”

The Independent UK

The media must stop enabling Trump's attention-seeking use of fascist rhetoric

Donald Trump is campaigning for the presidency of the United States the same way that Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy campaigned almost 100 years ago.

The Conversation

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The Guardian - US

Illinois governor ‘deeply concerned’ by Trump rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi era

JB Pritzker, who’s of Jewish descent, says Trump ‘is dangerous for our democracy’ and ‘dangerous for specific minority groups in US

The Independent UK

Biden slams ‘loser’ Trump for Nazi rhetoric

‘There’s a lot of reasons to be against Donald Trump, but damn he shouldn’t be president,’ Biden tells campaign donors

The Independent UK

Trump compared to Hitler after ‘vermin’ attack

‘Calling people ‘vermin’ was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini to dehumanize people and encourage their followers to engage in violence,’ historian says

The Independent UK

Italy's far-right Premier Meloni defies fears of harming democracy and clashing with the EU

When Giorgia Meloni took office a year ago as the first far-right premier in Italy’s post-war history, many in Europe worried about the prospect of the country’s democratic backsliding and resistance to European Union rules

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The Independent UK

Italian lawmakers debate long-delayed Holocaust Museum revived by far-right-led government

Italian lawmakers have marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi roundup of more than 1,200 Roman Jews in the Holocaust with a debate on a measure to partially fund a long-delayed Holocaust Museum in the capital

The Guardian - UK

The battle for births: how the far right are exploiting Italy’s ‘demographic winter’

Massiola is a village slowly dying, and it’s not the only one. Dwindling populations are affecting the whole of Italy – will this crisis reshape the country’s future?

The Guardian - UK

‘She plays the moderate but winks at those who are not’: the many faces of Giorgia Meloni

After almost a year in power critics of Italy’s PM say nobody should be fooled: those giving her plaudits have forgotten her past

The Guardian - AU

HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives

Archive material captures arrival in Australia of celebrities including Princess Anne, Fred Astaire and four-year-old Russell Crowe, as well as The War of the Worlds author’s explosive 1938-39 visit

The Independent UK

Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda

When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of the post-war era, she steeped her winning campaign in the sharply ideological rhetoric of national sovereignty, “traditional families” and fear of migrants

The Conversation

Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni's Italy: how her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures

Since coming to power, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her party Brothers of Italy have repeatedly raised the question of who and what is remembered in Italy. They have paid particular attention to how the experience of Italian fascism is told.

The Independent UK

Biden is welcoming far-right Italian Prime Minister Meloni for White House talks

President Joe Biden is set to welcome Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House for talks

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