- Unione Nazionale
Unione Nazionale (Italian for "National Union") was a pro-fascist Italian Catholic political party during the 1920s, the first of several "Clerico-Fascist" political organizations established within the decade. [Blinkhorn, 1990, p. 32.] The party was established with the permission of
Pope Pius XI , dealing the final blow to the anti-fascist Catholic Italian People's Party. [Atkin and Tallett, 2003, p. 206.] [Pollard, 1996, p. 81.]The Unione Nazionale's membership primary came from aristocratic and pro-monarchist Catholics in
Turin ,Milan , andNaples , along with members of theBlack Nobility , and these groups represented over half of the signatories of the parties April 1923 manifesto. [Blinkhorn, 1990, p. 34.] Pollard describes the Unione Nazionale as "essentially an aristocratic clique." [Pollard, 1996, p. 82.] Its manifesto credited fascism with the goal of establishing "a lasting social Christian and Italian order." [Blinkhorn, 1990, p. 42.]According to the pro-Fascist "
Il Momento " of Turin, the party was notorious for its "hostility towards the works and towardstrade union organizations." [Blinkhorn, 1990, p. 35.]The Unione Nazionale, and the similar
Centro Nazionale , supported the Fascist list in the March 1929 elections, only to virtually disappear from the political map after the conclusion of theLateran treaties .Blinkhorn, 1990, p. 44.] The Centro Nazionale dissolved in the summer of 1930, leaving the Unione Nazionale as the sole remaining "Clerico-Fascist" political party.ee also
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Clerical fascism
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References
*Atkin, Nicholas, and Tallett, Frank. 2003. "Priests, Prelates, and People: A History of European Catholicism Since 1750". Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195219872
*Blinkhorn, Martin. 1990. "Fascists and Conservatives: The Radical Right and the Establishment in twentieth-century Europe". Routledge. ISBN 0049400878
*Pollard, John. 1996. "Italy" in "Political Catholicism in Europe, 1918-1965". Eds. Torn Buchanan and Martin Conway. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198203195
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