Roberto Fiore, the leader of Italy’s far-right party Forza Nuova, has written an open letter to Pope Leo XIV urging the pontiff to intervene in his appeal against a jail sentence for his part in the violent attack on the headquarters of Italy’s largest trade-union federation in 2021. The 65-year-old fascist, who was sentenced at […]
Roberto Fiore
The strange tale of the fascist terrorist, a banned British charity and a hoard of gold bullion
Earlier this week, the media reported that the Charity Commission had shut down an ostensibly Roman Catholic-supporting charity, sacked its trustees and confiscated £30,000 in gold bullion. The charity was accused of cheating HMRC out of tens of thousands of pounds and being linked to far-right politics. That much was widely reported. But not much […]
Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative Catholics and a world of antisemitic bigotry, Holocaust denial and fascist politics. Williamson died last month aged 84, a few days after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church […]