Fascist Manifesto

Template:More citations needed Template:Fascism sidebar Template:Benito Mussolini sidebar "The Manifesto of the Italian Fasces of Combat" (Template:Langx), also referred to as the Fascist Manifesto or the San Sepolcro Programme ("Programma di San Sepolcro") is the political platform developed from statements made during the founding of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, held in Piazza San Sepolcro in Milan on March 23, 1919.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

It was the initial declaration of the political stance of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento ("Italian Fasces of Combat")<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the movement founded in Milan by Benito Mussolini in 1919 and it is an early expression of fascism known as sansepolcrismo. The manifesto was co-authored by national syndicalist Alceste de Ambris and the futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

The manifesto was published in Il Popolo d'Italia on June 6, 1919, and it is divided into four sections, describing the movement's objectives in political, social, military and financial fields.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The manifesto in practice

The early positions reflected in the manifesto would later be characterized by Mussolini in 1932 "The Doctrine of Fascism" as "a series of pointers, forecasts, hints which, when freed from the inevitable matrix of contingencies, were to develop in a few years time into a series of doctrinal positions entitling Fascism to rank as a political doctrine differing from all others, past or present."<ref>The Doctrine of Fascism: Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, 1932. http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/germany/mussolini.htm</ref>

Of the manifesto's proposals, the commitment to corporative organisation of economic interests was to be the longest lasting. Far from becoming a medium of extended democracy, parliament became by law an exclusively Fascist-picked body in 1929; being replaced by the "chamber of corporations" a decade later.

An eight-hour workday was introduced in 1925.<ref>Art. 1 comma 1 R.D.L. 15 marzo 1923 n. 692.</ref>

Fascism's pacifist foreign policy ceased during its first year of Italian government. In September 1923, the Corfu crisis demonstrated the regime's willingness to use force internationally. Perhaps the greatest success of Fascist diplomacy was the Lateran Treaty of February 1929, which accepted the principle of non-interference in the affairs of the Church. This ended the 59-year-old dispute between Italy and the Papacy.

See also

• Definitions of fascism
• Communist Manifesto
• Manifesto of Futurism
• Constitution of Fiume
• "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals"
• "Manifesto of Race"