blackshirts
Italian fascist militia
Blackshirts were members of fascist paramilitary organizations, named for their uniform.
The term originally referred to Mussolini's Italian fascist squads in the 1920s, later extending to similar groups elsewhere, including Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
The word now evokes fascist thuggery generally: The blackshirts beat protesters in the streets.
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
- anti-communismOpposition to Marxist ideology
- ultranationalismExtreme supremacist patriotism
authoritarianism · dictatorship · statism · militarism · imperialism · cult of personality · propaganda · ethnocentrism
Italian fascist premier
- March on RomeFascist coup in Italy
- BenitoSpanish blessed name
- Lateran Treaty1929 Italy-Vatican agreement
- corporatismState-group policy collaboration
Fascist paramilitary intimidation tactics
- militiaNon-professional armed force
- violenceHarmful physical force
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- strikebreakingUndermining organized labor stoppages
street fighting · thuggery · brutality · terror · assault · arson · beatings · raids
fascism
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
- anti-communismOpposition to Marxist ideology
ultranationalism · authoritarianism · dictatorship · statism · militarism · imperialism · cult of personality · propaganda · ethnocentrism · one-party state
Mussolini
Italian fascist premier
- March on RomeFascist coup in Italy
- BenitoSpanish blessed name
- Lateran Treaty1929 Italy-Vatican agreement
squadrismo
Fascist paramilitary intimidation tactics
- militiaNon-professional armed force
- violenceHarmful physical force
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
strikebreaking · street fighting · thuggery · brutality · terror · assault · arson · beatings · raids · armed gangs
fez
Flat-topped tasseled cap
- military dressOfficial armed forces clothing
- insigniaDistinguishing mark of rank
- bootsAnkle-covering footwear
- oppressorstyrants, despots, dictators, autocrats, authoritarians
- far rightfascism, neo-Nazism, neofascism, white supremacy, Nazism
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- tyrannytyrant, despot, tyranny, dictator, autocracy
- Italian ColoniesEritrea, Libya, Somalia, Abyssinia, Rhodes
blackshirtsdemocratic activists
Those promoting representative government
resistance fighters · partisans · Maquis · freedom fighters · civil rights activists
blackshirtsdemocratic activists
Those promoting representative government
socialists · communists · anarchists · liberals · social democrats
black, shirt, shirts, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackens