He is thought either to have been killed by the Fascists as soon as he landed or to have killed himself by flying out to sea and crashing his plane.

At this time, the Fascists did not have an integrated set of policies and the movement was very small.

Upon being appointed Prime Minister of Italy, Mussolini had to form a coalition government, because the Fascists did not have control over the Italian parliament.

Fascists opposed pacifism and believed that a nation must have a warrior mentality.

As the Allies and the Resistance gradually chased the Nazis and Fascists off the peninsula, it became apparent that Victor Emmanuel was too tainted by his earlier support of Mussolini to have any postwar role.

The only evidence offered at his trial that he had begun broadcasting from Germany while his British passport was valid was the testimony of a London police inspector who had questioned him before the war while he was an active member of the British Union of Fascists and claimed to have recognised his voice on a propaganda broadcast in the early weeks of the war ( he already had previous convictions for assault and riotous assembly as a result of street fights with communists and anarchists ).

Comparisons have been made between the character Everard Webley and his Brotherhood of British Freemen and Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.

A number of other fascist groups preceded Mosley, the most prominent being the British Fascists, and possibly one of those may have been Huxley's inspiration.

The name may have been inspired by the Baker Street Irregulars from the stories of Sherlock Holmes, and perhaps by the Battle of Cable Street, a riot started between Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and anti-fascist protesters in 1936.

The priest who gave him the last rites is said to have attributed the death to Fascists unhappy about Bottecchia's more liberal leanings.

Some PPU supporters were so sympathetic to German grievances that one member, Rose Macaulay, claimed she found it difficult to distinguish between the propaganda of the PPU and that of the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ), saying, " Occasionally when reading Peace News, I ( and others ) half think we have got hold of the Blackshirt by mistake.

But as it turns out, the Nazis were not the only ones involved in the scheme: an " Interplanetary Union of Fascists ", which was formed by aliens, have struck a deal with the Germans.

Fascists commonly utilize paramilitary organizations to commit or threaten violence against their opponents.

The Fascists presented themselves as anti-Marxists and as opposed to the Marxists.

Fascists identified their primary opponents as the majority of socialists on the left who had opposed intervention in World War I.

The British Union of Fascists opposed homosexuality, and pejoratively questioned their opponents ' heterosexuality.

Fascists opposed the laissez-faire economic policies that were dominant in the era prior to the Great Depression.

Like the Fascists, the Futurists were Italian nationalists, radicals, admirers of violence, and were opposed to parliamentary democracy.

Despite such strong rhetoric, Mussolini considered evacuating Fascists into Switzerland, although this was opposed by Germany, which instead proposed that Mussolini and key Fascist officials be taken into exile in Germany.

Strongly opposed to the British Union of Fascists and their leader Oswald Mosley, Jones organised protest-meetings against the fascists in Liverpool, and was beaten up by a group of Blackshirts armed with knuckle-dusters.

In the event the British Fascists formed their own Q Divisions which took on much of the same work as the OMS during the strike, albeit without having any official government recognition.

By 1928, having become disillusioned with the British Fascists, Leese became a founding member of the Imperial Fascist League.

This association of Fascists, socialists and anarchists in the Futurist movement, which may seem odd today, can be understood in terms of the influence of George Sorel, whose ideas about the regenerative effect of political violence had adherents right across the political spectrum.

Despite its close association with elements of the Conservative Party the British Fascists did occasionally run candidates in local elections.

After judging the communists as an immediate threat to the country, the Balli Kombëtar sided with the Germans, fatally damaging its image among those fighting the Fascists.

This behaviour of aggression towards Yugoslavia and South Slavs was pursued by Italian Fascists with their persecution of South Slavs-especially Slovenes and Croats.

Mussolini and the Fascists took advantage of the situation by allying with industrial businesses and attacking workers and peasants in the name of preserving order and internal peace in Italy.

The Fascists assisted the anti-socialist campaign by allying with the other parties and the conservative right in a mutual effort to destroy the Italian Socialist Party and labour organizations committed to class identity above national identity.

Though Fascism adopted a number of positions designed to appeal to reactionaries, the Fascists sought to maintain Fascism's revolutionary character, with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti saying " Fascism would like to be conservative, but it will by being revolutionary.

The Fascists began their attempt to entrench Fascism in Italy with the Acerbo Law, which guaranteed a plurality of the seats in parliament to any party or coalition list in an election that received 25 % or more of the vote.

Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists, describing fascist corporatism, said that " it means a nation organized as the human body, with each organ performing its individual function but working in harmony with the whole ".

He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar.

* April 6 – Fascists win the elections in Italy with a ⅔ majority.

Some German-speakers wanted revenge upon Italian-speakers living in the area, but were mostly prevented by the occupying Nazis, who still considered Mussolini head of the Italian Social Republic and wanted to preserve good relations with the Fascists.

In 1945, the National Liberation Committee appointed him to the leadership of Agip ( Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli-General Italian Oil Company ), the national oil company created by the Fascists, with instructions to close it as soon as possible.

He has associated with far right and neo-Nazi causes, famously during his student days seconding British Union of Fascists founder Oswald Mosley in a University College London debate on immigration.

That same year her elder sister Diana left her husband for an affair with Oswald Mosley who had just founded the British Union of Fascists.

Interview with anti-fascist Aubrey Morris, who was present at the event and Nicholas Mosley, son of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.

The flag of the British Union of Fascists with colours based upon the Union Flag and basic design resembling the flag of the Nazi Party.

The first part, which traced the rise of the Nazis ( or " German Fascists " as Katz called them in conformity with Comintern practice, which forbade the use of the term Nazi ), portrayed the KPD as the only genuine anti-fascist force in Germany, and featured a bitter attack on the SPD.

The Brown Book labeled the SPD " Social Fascists " and accused the leadership of the SPD of secretly working in close collaboration with the Nazis.

Stacking the State Intelligence Secretariat ( SIDE ) with Fascists loyal to him, this policy led the corrupt agency to engage in unprecedented intrigue, culminating in the kidnapping of Jorge and Juan Born, prominent local executives who paid US $ 60 million for their release ( a world record at the time ).

In 1926, Fascists attempted to assassinate Tresca with a bomb during a rally.

In his book, The New Fascists, Wilkinson, comparing the NF to the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), comments on its neo-fascist nature and neo-Nazi ideals: " The only other case among the western democracies of a neo-fascist movement making some progress towards creating an effective mass party with at least a chance of winning some leverage, is the National Front ( NF ) in Britain.

On April 28, Mussolini and several of the other Fascists captured with him were taken to Dongo and executed by squad shooting.

In the electoral campaign of 1919 he charged that an aggressive minority had dragged Italy into war against the will of the majority, putting him at odds with the growing movement of Fascists.

On 28 April, Mussolini was killed in Giulino ( a civil parish of Mezzegra ); the other Fascists captured with him were taken to Dongo and killed there.