France/Italy/UK 20th Century Political Movements

EPM 288

1970 reproduction of a 1930’s poster HALTE LA. LE FASCISME NE PASSERA PAS, published by LICA (the International League Against Anti-Semitism in North Africa.

Price: $200.00

Note: The International League Against Anti-Semitism in North Africa (LICA) was founded in order to address French-Jewish anxieties that fascist and antisemitic ideas would spread from Europe to the indigenous population of France’s colonies. Because of this rising concern, the organization sought a Jewish-Muslim partnership in order to combat common racist and antisemitic language and action prevalent in the 1930’s. (Hasan also put in Algeria, Holocaust Studies and Palestine pre-1948)

EPM 287

German brochure handed out at the Tripoli trade fair held on March 1 to April 15, 1937. It discusses trade between Germany and Italy and promotes both Italian and German economic interests. Rare.

Price: $290.00

EPM 286Rare anti-fascist flyer created by the Italian Republican party, printed in 1943. It contrasts Italy’s empire and fascism, with the effect on the people during the war. It then presents an optimistic view under the Republicans. Rare.

Price: $300.00

Note from Wikipedia: The Republican party (PRI) is the oldest political party in Italy that is still standing. In exile under Mussolini, it reemerged after July 25,1943 with the resumption of the publication of La Voce Repubblicana , proclaiming the reconstitution of the Italian Republican Party in Rome. Furthermore, on 9–10 October of the same year a new Congress of the party in exile was held in Portsmouth and on the following 5 December in Milan a clandestine Congress of Upper Italy.

The PRI decided not to be part of the National Liberation Committee (CLN) , the assembly of anti-fascist parties created after 8 September 1943 . The republicans, always hostile to the Savoys , did not approve of the CLN's choice to consider the monarchy legitimate

The war of resistance saw the participation of many republicans always through their own armed formations called the Mazzini Brigades, especially after the liberation of Rome

On 2 June 1946, with the institutional referendum, the Italian people chose the republican form and the PRI finally saw its fundamental prejudicial satisfied. The phase of participation in the governments of the Italian Republic therefore began in the party's politics.

EPM 285

Complete set of 10 postcards published by the Consortium for the Industry and Trade of Carrara Marble on the transportation and installation of the Mussolini obelisk installed in the Mussolini Foro in Rome. Original packet included. Rare.

Price: $300.00

EPM 284

Manuale del Capo Squadra dei F.G.C. (Manual for the Team Leader of a Youth Combat Group). 68 pages. Rare. Two pages of hand written notes from the owner of the manual.

Price: $200.00

EPM 283

Il Mio Bambino. Published during the fascist period in 1939, it is a childrens story about motherhood, which was an important theme for the fascists. 32 pages, cover separating.

Price: $180.00

EPM 282Two original flyers from the British Union of Fascists. Rare.

Price: $390.00

Note from Wikipedia: The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley. Mosley changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists in 1936 and, in 1937, to the British Union. In 1939, following the start of the Second World War, the party was proscribed by the British government and in 1940 it was disbanded. The BUF emerged in 1932 from the electoral defeat of its antecedent, the New Party, in the 1931 general election. The BUF's foundation was initially met with popular support, and it attracted a sizeable following, with the party claiming 50,000 members at one point. The press baron Lord Rothermere was a notable early supporter. As the party became increasingly radical, however, support declined. The Olympia Rally of 1934, in which a number of anti-fascist protestors were attacked by the paramilitary wing of the BUF, the Fascist Defence Force, isolated the party from much of its following. The party's embrace of Nazi-style antisemitism in 1936 led to increasingly violent confrontations with anti-fascists, notably the 1936 Battle of Cable Street in London's East End. The Public Order Act 1936, which banned political uniforms and responded to increasing political violence, had a particularly strong effect on the BUF whose supporters were known as "Blackshirts" after the uniforms they wore. Growing British hostility towards Nazi Germany, with which the British press persistently associated the BUF, further contributed to the decline of the movement's membership. The party was finally banned by the British government on 23 May 1940 after the start of the Second World War, amid suspicion that its remaining supporters might form a pro-Nazi "fifth column". A number of prominent BUF members were arrested and interned under Defence Regulation 18B.

EPM 281

Archive of 23 publications by the Irish Communist Party and the British & Irish Communist Organization from 1969-1975. Includes 5 issues of the Irish Communist, 7 issues of The Communist, a number of other publications by the British & Irish Communist Organisation, the Birth of Ulster Unionism, the Cork Workers Club.

Price: $600.00

EPM 280

Interesting announcement promoting events in Brescia between March and May 1934, offering a 50% discount on rail fairs to Brescia during that time.

Price: $150.00

EPM 279EPM 279

Official photo album belonging to Mario Rosati, Il Segretario del Fasccio di Combattimente, during a visit to a fascist youth camp in Fossano Italy, July 25, 1937. 19 photos, no captions.

Price: $600.00

EPM 278

Fascist period children’s savings book. B

Price: $150.00

EPM 277

First and second grade drawing books. This is the new ministerial approved program. Fascist themes. B

Price: $180.00

EPM 276

Italian childrens school book L’Impero Degli Italiani, from Il Libro Della Quinta Classe Elementare. 1941. 96 pages. B

Price: $140.00

EPM 275

La Masoneria, by Pedro Gonzalez-Blanco. Printed in Valencia in 1933. 48 pages. B

Price: $90.00

EPM 274

Official photo album of a visit of a high ranking Italian official to a fascist youth school. 17 photos. B

Price: $350.00

EPM 273

Pour Le Peuple. Elections Legislatives de 1936. Manifeste Croix de Feu. A 15 page manifesto from the Croix de Feu appealing to French nationalism. This was the last election before the war. B

Price: $200.00

Note from Wikipedia: The Croix-de-Feu association , or Association of front combatants and war wounded cited for brilliant action ( 1927 - 1936 ), was originally a movement of French veterans of the Great War which then transformed into a nationalist political organization , even fascist according to some historians. It was directed by Colonel François de La Rocque (1885-1946). The association was dissolved in 1936 by the Popular Front government , then replaced by the French Social Party .

EPM 272

Das Geht Sie an! (This Concerns You!). 1957 pro-DPS (Demokratische Partei Saar) booklet full of caricatures of the political opposition. B

Price: $150.00

EPM 271

Le Relevement de l’Allemagne. Ses Forces Militaires. Organisatioon General. Dated 1924 and stamped SECRET, it is a frank assessment of Germany’s military capability. 58 pages complete in every respect. Rare. B

Price: $200.00

EPM 270

1934 issue of Les Sans Dieu (The Godless). Published in Paris, 34 pages. It is devoted to explaining the anti-religious sentiment in communist Russia.

Price: $120.00

EPM 266Ephemera related to the reinternment of Mussolini’s body in Predappio, Italy in 1957. B

Price: $300.00

Note: After Mussolini’s corpse was hung up on meat hooks on April 29, 1945, in Piazzale Loreto in Milan, where citizens vented their fury at their former leader, he was buried in an unmarked grave in a nearby cemetery. A year later, neo-Fascist loyalists dug up his body and hid it in a convent in Lombardy until 1957, when the remains were returned to Mussolini’s widow, who buried them in the family crypt in Predappio.