National Union (Italy, 1923)
National Union Unione Nazionale | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Carlo Ottavio Cornaggia Medici |
| Founded | 1923 |
| Ideology | Clerical fascism |
National Union (
Catholic political party during the 1920s, the first of several "Clerico-Fascist" political organizations established within the decade.[1] The party was established with the permission of Pope Pius XI, dealing the final blow to the anti-fascist Catholic Italian People's Party.[2][3]
The National Union's membership primarily came from aristocratic and pro-monarchist Catholics in
Black Nobility. These groups represented over half of the signatories of the party's April 1923 manifesto.[4] Pollard describes the National Union as "essentially an aristocratic clique".[5] Its manifesto credited fascism with the goal of establishing "a lasting social Christian and Italian order".[6]
According to the pro-Fascist Il Momento of Turin, the party was notorious for its "hostility towards the works and towards trade union organizations".[7]
The National Union, and the similar
Lateran treaties.[8] The Centro Nazionale dissolved in the summer of 1930, leaving the National Union as the sole remaining "Clerico-Fascist" political party.[8]
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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 0-19-521987-2
- Blinkhorn, Martin. 1990. Fascists and Conservatives: The Radical Right and the Establishment in twentieth-century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 0-04-940087-8
- Pollard, John. 1996. "Italy" in Political Catholicism in Europe, 1918-1965. Eds. Torn Buchanan and Martin Conway. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-820319-5
