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An actor wearing a mask depicting Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi performs alongside three billboards in front of the Colosseum
Tory leader’s video was ‘an insult to the innocent civil rights protesters who were murdered in Derry in January 1972,’ says SDLP MP Colum Eastwood
ITALY faces a hung parliament after no single party or coalition gained anything close to a majority in yesterday’s election.
With most of the votes counted today, the single largest bloc was a right-wing coalition consisting of the far-right League, convicted fraudster Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, and the smaller far-right Brothers of Italy and Us With Italy.
Before the vote it had been imagined that Mr Berlusconi’s party would be the main force — though there had been intra-coalition squabbles — but Matteo Salvini’s League came first with 17 per cent to Forza Italia’s 14.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today