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Posted: 26 Apr 2025, 13:44
An Italian Communist in the Ethiopian Resistance
By Marco Ferrari
On April 25, Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s resistance against Benito Mussolini’s colonial occupation.
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/barontini-i ... resistance