Mafia and Fascism

Photo: the killing of Pio La Torre by Mafia in 1982

Since a few years, revisionism is growing in Italy: streets with names of fascists, statues (small) of Mussolini, attempts to put at the same level those fascists who fought with the Nazis occupying Italy and the partisans, non attendance by the Prime Minister (Berlusconi) at the celebrations of 25 April, the day Italy was finally free from Nazism (thus the name of my blog).

The latest case is the worst and indicative of the way Italy goes.

Comiso is a small town in Sicily, near Ragusa. Famous for a US nuclear missile base which was opposed by the left. The leader against the base was Pio La Torre, a communist leader who although in a prominent position in Rome decided to return to Sicily to fight Mafia. In 1982 he was killed by the Mafia. According to witnesses it was due to the fact that he was pushing for a law to seize the wealth of “Mafiosi”.

The military airport became civilian in 2007 and the airport was named Pio La Torre. But in 2008 the right Alleanza Nazionale, those who claim that they are no longer fascists, decided to change the name of the airport and put the old one: “Vincenzo Magliocco”. Who is he ? nothing else than an Italian General who died in Ethiopia in 1936 during the Fascist colonial war.

You take away the name of someone who fought the Mafia and for the poor to celebrate a colonialist arm of fascist war.

Not different from what said Dell'Utri, founder of Berlusconi's party and friend of his, condemned for Mafia, who complained about the name of Palermo's airport: Falcone and Borsellino, two judges killed by Mafia. It gives a bad impression of Sicily, he said ....

This is Italy now, this is what the Berlusconi’s government leads to. Beware, democracy is in danger. Fascism is back

Photo: storiadopostoria.kataweb.it
Source: Wikipedia, Repubblica.it