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The British protest against fascism that nearly derailed Mussolini’s plans for the ‘March on Rome’
ALFIO BERNABEI looks back 100 years to a key turning point in the emergence of fascism
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AS HE prepared to take control of Italy with plans already under way for the march on Rome, Mussolini warned the British government that he would unleash “maximum-degree” retaliations against British ships in Italian ports if an anti-fascist protest by the British unions was allowed to go ahead which threatened to embarrass him in front of the whole world.
The protest, led among others by the British National Union of Railwaymen and the National Federation of Transport Workers, was the first major anti-fascist event outside Italian borders and was called at a time when Mussolini was sending out warnings that he was ready to advance, with up to 300,000 Blackshirts at his command.
The march on Rome eventually took place on October 28 1922 and the Italian king appointed Mussolini prime minister.
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