ABSTRACT: A collection of documents on the radicals' libertarian antifascism: to recognize fascism means to understand what it has been and above all what it can be. Apparent antifascism too often hides a complicity with those who represented the true continuity with fascism, the reprise of laws and methods typical of that regime. (" WE AND THE FASCISTS", The radicals' libertarian antifascism, edited by Valter Vecellio, preface by Giuseppe Rippa - Quaderni Radicali/1, November 1980)

The Italian government today reserves the right to judge in a Fascist manner now that it has the technical means to do so thanks to Reale law (a special law on public order, ed.).

This is a false sort of legality that masks the violence perpetrated by the institutions: it is the essence of Fascism and the essence of the institutions. If Fascism once meant the hired killers, the Duminis, the Farinaccis, today Fascism means the MSI (Movimento Sociale Italiano, the neo-Fascist party, ed.) and nothing else. But the killers, the thugs are only mistaken for Fascists because it is convenient. Fascism won the day when it came to power, took over the government, the violent but "legitimate" practice of a certain ideology. And if continuity is established, it is clear that the historic successor of the National Fascist Party is the DC.

Fascism did not only have a demonic visage, it also had the reasonable face of the corporative state: that same face which today is more clearly seen than forty years ago. When we see the workers' unions support the government and want to avoid putting it into crisis; when we see the president of Confindustria (the confederation of industrialists, ed.) praise the responsibility and seriousness of the union leader Luciano Lama; little is lacking to create the picture of the corporative state that the Fascists did not have enough time to realise. That is, the central bureaucratic power that collaborates with the representatives of the formally united workers - unitarian - and with the heads of the employers. So then, if we don't want to believe, masochistically, that anti-Fascism was beaten for ten years by a few thugs and killers, we must confess that this defeat had another cause which was then this objective class power.

Marco Pannella (declaration of December 1975)