Mussolini: Son of the Century is a biographical historical drama television series directed by Joe Wright, based on the 2018 novel M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati. Starring Luca Marinelli as Benito Mussolini, the series centers on the early political career of Mussolini in the 1920s. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2024 and began airing on Sky Atlantic on 10 January 2025.
Mussolini: Son of the Century | MUBI
Spanning the political chaos of 1920s Italy, Benito Mussolini transforms from socialist journalist to Italy’s brutal dictator, starting with his Blackshirts militia to the establishment of an authoritarian rule that would go on to set Europe aflame.
Italy's Radical Solution to Extreme Inequality
We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his mo…
Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’
More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Rise of Italian Fascism: A Cross-City Quantitative and Historical Text Qualitative Analysis
Evidence linking past experiences of worsening health with support for radical political views has generated concerns about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 had a devastating health impact: 4.1 million Italians contracted influenza and about 500 000 died. We tested the hypothesis that deaths from the 1918 influenza pandemic contributed to the rise of Fascism in Italy. To provide a “thicker” interpretation of these patterns, we applied historical text mining to the newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia (Mussolini’s newspaper). Our observations were consistent with evidence from other contexts that worsening mortality rates can fuel radical politics. Unequal impacts of pandemics may contribute to political polarization. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(2):242–247. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306574)
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Rise of Italian Fascism: A Cross-City Quantitative and Historical Text Qualitative Analysis
Evidence linking past experiences of worsening health with support for radical political views has generated concerns about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 had a devastating health impact: 4.1 million Italians contracted influenza and about 500 000 died. We tested the hypothesis that deaths from the 1918 influenza pandemic contributed to the rise of Fascism in Italy. To provide a “thicker” interpretation of these patterns, we applied historical text mining to the newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia (Mussolini’s newspaper). Our observations were consistent with evidence from other contexts that worsening mortality rates can fuel radical politics. Unequal impacts of pandemics may contribute to political polarization. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(2):242–247. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306574 )
Italian Citizenship by Descent - Italian Citizenship Jure Sanguinis | IDC
Jure Sanguinis translates to "by law of the bloodline" and is an Italian law that allows someone to obtain Italian citizenship by descent.
[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)
Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism
A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.
Marighella: O guerrilheiro que incendiou o mundo
Livro que inspirou o filme dirigido por Wagner Moura. O jornalista Mário Magalhães reconstitui a trepidante trajetória do revolucionário Carlos Marighella, militante do Partido Comunista Brasileiro e fundador da Ação Libertadora Nacional, o maior grupo armado de oposição à ditadura militar (1964-85). A vida de Carlos Marighella (1911-69) foi tão frenética quanto surpreendente. Militante comunista desde a juventude, deputado federal constituinte e fundador do maior grupo armado de oposição à ditadura militar - a Ação Libertadora Nacional -, esse mulato de Salvador era também um profícuo poeta, homem irreverente e brincalhão. Nesta narrativa repleta de revelações, o jornalista Mário Magalhães investiga as várias facetas do biografado. Em ritmo de thriller, reconstitui com realismo desconcertante passagens pela prisão, resistência à tortura, operações de espionagem na Guerra Fria e assaltos da guerrilha a bancos, carros-fortes e trem-pagador. Mas também recupera a célebre prova de física respondida em versos no Ginásio da Bahia e poemas de amor. A controversa vida de Marighella é também uma história dos movimentos radicais e da esquerda no Brasil e no mundo. Coadjuvantes de peso, que tangenciaram a vida do protagonista, povoam estas páginas: Fidel Castro, Getúlio Vargas, Che Guevara, Carlos Lacerda, Stálin, Luiz Carlos Prestes e Carlos Lamarca, além de figuras-chave da cultura, como os escritores Jorge Amado e Graciliano Ramos; os pintores Cândido Portinari e Joan Miró; os dramaturgos Augusto Boal e Dias Gomes; e os cineastas Glauber Rocha, Jean-Luc Godard e Luchino Visconti. Proclamado pela ditadura militar como seu inimigo número um, o guerrilheiro foi morto em uma emboscada policial em São Paulo, na noite de 4 de novembro de 1969. Esta biografia de tirar o fôlego apresenta informações inéditas sobre a trajetória de Marighella e o atribulado e apaixonante tempo em que ele viveu.
« Il a entubé tout le monde » : un expert du climat dénonce une « erreur politique » d’Emmanuel Macron sur le sujet
Le paléoclimatologue Jean Jouzel regrette le manque d’ambition d’Emmanuel Macron...
The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.
A Thesis on the History of the 21st Century: Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World
Reviewing a trio of books by a sextet of ruling-class ideologues, Mathias Fuelling finds an ambient anxiety hanging over a perceived crisis in American capitalism, with visions of bolstering a Silicon Valley-led technocracy fueled by AI investment reflecting American fears over the dawn of a "Chinese Century."
19th century in fashion
The nineteenth century marks the period beginning January 1, 1801, and ends December 31, 1900.
