The Anti-Fascist Revolution
Remembering the Action Party, one of Italy's biggest anti-fascist partisan movements.
Prezioso, Stefanie
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/italy-fascism-communist-party-world-war-twoJacobin
Date Written: 2017-05-08
Publisher: Jacobin
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX20699
Over the last two decades, the Italian Resistance has been a subject of sharp public debate, with both political and historical efforts "radically to repudiate the role and significance" of anti-fascism in Italy's contemporary history. As Pier Giorgio Zunino wrote in 1997, "for the Italian history of the second half of the twentieth century, anti-fascism is the villain."