THE extraordinary lives of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst and her radical partner Silvio Corio will be showcased in a new exhibition.
Sylvia and Silvio, which features rarely before seen documents and photographs relating to the couple, opens at the University of Dundee’s Dalhousie Building on Wednesday, November 27.
Pankhurst was famed for her role in the suffragette movement, as well as for her passionate interest in anti-colonialism, humanitarian issues and revolutionary politics. Corio was a typographer who fled Italy after his involvement in anarchist and socialist militancy saw him fall foul of the state.
The exhibition illustrates how Mussolini’s regime tried to transform London’s Little Italy into a bastion of fascism, and how the couple were among the first to raise the alarm about this infiltration before leading the resistance against fascism for the rest of their lives.
“This dramatic exhibition shows how Sylvia Pankhurst and Silvio Corio represent a wonderful example of the need for continuous struggle against fascism,” said Dr Omar Feraboli, one of the exhibition organisers.
“It also shows, quite worryingly, several frightening similarities between the dialectic and the rhetoric used by newspapers in Italy during 1920s-1930s and the aggressive and brutal language which characterises the current political debate in Italy.”
A talk from the curator will kick off the launch night at 5pm. Tickets and more information are available at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition-sylvia-and-silvio-tickets-76041244409
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