Article: Mussolini's heirs shake off their fascist mantle

IT WASN'T all that long ago - just a touch more than two years - that Italian neo-fascists in black shirts were parading in Piazza Venezia to mark the 70th anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, giving each other one-armed Roman salutes and si nging Fascist hymns.

In those days the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, or MSI, held congresses that were openly nostalgic for the days of Il Duce, with black flags and busts of the great Italian dictator adorning the conference hall, and even the odd hand-to-hand fight in fond tribute to the strong-arm thuggery of Mussolini's squadristi.

How times have moved on. The old political order has collapsed, the MSI has come in from the cold and, with ...

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