Fascism on march again
!By BERNARD DEGIOANNI, of Agence France-Presse,!' through NZPA I < Rome I ■ After 30 years of democracy, Fascism is once again] emerging loud and strong inj' (Italy. ' For the first time since 'the end of World War 11,1 voices are being heard on] •the Italian radio preaching! the views of Musso'ini. un-< • changed since he imposed! ’ them on his countrymen! from 1922 to 1945. Violence is in the air snd in the streets. Its apologists, in the "New Order” movement, believe] that bomb attacks and mur-l ;der are part of a, normal method Of political struggle. !
Italians, trying • to find a way out of their political ’ | cul-de-sac through such pro- i 1 (positions as the ‘historic 11 I compromise” between the i < ( Communists and the Social ] I (Democrats, were told lastjt week by a meeting of 600 ]< i Fascist youths, all under 20, (that Fascism was “the poll-' Itical reality of tomorrow.” 'i ] Order, they say, must be]] I re-established. Italian trains ]' ; do not even run on time any •! I more. A woman’s place is in T !the home, (but her rights;! ’would be recognised)! Homo-c sexuals are sick men for whom special brothels • i should be provided. Mystic- • ism is out. Romanticism is I in. The philosopher. Oswald |: Spengler, has the key to'the (future. I
The two extreme Right- ■< wring movements, usually t labelled as neo-Fascists, the 11 Italian Social Movement (17it deputies, 6 senators) and]] National Democracy (17 dep-it uties, 9 senators) have been] openly accused of fomenting ! violence. ' < Ten trials now under wayjt against more than 20011 :people accused of trying to]’ “reconstruct the Fascist] Party” have shown up close i links between common-law .banditry and extreme Right-'] ; wing political criminality.! And, to many Italians, sim- : ilar ties have been shown to exist : during the last 30 years, between neo-Fascism land the country’s highest political authorities. I Former Ministers and Se-.
cret Service officials are on' trial in Rome for allegedly] taking part in the 1970 at-] tempted coup d’etat by Prince Borghese and Right-] wing extremists. At Catanzaro, the same men are answering charges ] of giving “protection” to extreme Rightists who at-1 tacked a train and a bank in ; !Milan, causing 16 deaths and. 100 injuries. The “New Order” leader. Pier Luigi Concutelli, is on trial in .Florence for alleged respon- ; sibility for the 1976 murder of a Roman judge, Vittorio Occorso, who was investigating his group. The Italy of yesterday, many people fear. toda v is trying to become the Italy of tomorrow.
Fascism on march again
Press, 9 February 1978, Page 7
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