In 1919, Mussolini founded a paramilitary movement he called the Italian Fasces of Combat. A successor to the Fasces of Revolutionary Action, this combat-focused squad aimed to mobilize war ...

It should not be surprising that the word “fascism” is derived from “fasces.” When Benito Mussolini formed his National Fascist Party, he chose this ancient Roman tool (well, Etruscan ...

The hold the Lenin myth obtained among the workers and the seizure of the metallurgical plants in 1920 brought to the fore Mussolini and his party, the "fasci" (named, of course, after the fasces ...

Just like the swastika had previous meanings that have been largely forgotten since Hitler co-opted it, the fasces became ...

Mussolini’s own image rarely makes an appearance, but throughout the city you can spot hundreds of copies of the ancient Roman military emblem that gave Fascism its name. The “fasces”—a ...

Another name should be added to those, despite its dumb cruelty â Mussolini, the protagonist of director Joe Wright's new historical epic series, M - Son of the Century. Pause there if you're ...

Known as Il Duce, or “the duke,” Mussolini headed the National Fascist Party, which was symbolized by an eagle clutching a fasces — a bundle of rods with an axe among them. At Mussolini’s urging, in ...

While less obvious than the bundle of sticks, or fasces, that was the prominent symbol of Mussolini’s National Fascist Party, the tricolor flame is nevertheless a powerful image that ties the ...