Il Nuovo Mondo
PublisherAvanti News Company
Founded16 November 1925
Political alignment
LanguageItalian
Ceased publication29 November 1931
Headquarters
  • New York
  • Chicago
CountryUnited States

Il Nuovo Mondo was an Italian language anti-Fascist daily newspaper which was published in New York City and then, in Chicago between 1926 and 1931. The paper was the first anti-Fascist daily published abroad by the Italians.[1]

History and profile

Il Nuovo Mondo was started in New York City in 1925, and the first issue appeared on 16 November.[2] Frank Bellanca was the founder[3] and also, served as its director.[4] The members of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, a socialist-syndicalist group, were also instrumental in the establishment of the paper.[5] The financier of the paper was Local 89 which was a unit of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.[5] The general secretary of the Local 89 was an Italian, Luigi Antonini.[5] The paper was published by Avanti News Company daily except for Mondays.[2]

Il Nuovo Mondo mostly featured the articles written by the Italian exiles who left Italy due to the oppression of the Fascist rule in Italy.[3] The paper also covered writings of the American critics of Fascism.[3] It published the manifesto of the North American Anti-Fascist Alliance on 26 August 1926.[4]

The paper was initially a labor organ,[6] but it was sold to the Italian socialist exiles in April 1929.[7] From 2 October 1929 to 8 February 1930 the paper was published in Chicago.[2] The final issue of Il Nuovo Mondo was 282 which was published on 29 November 1931.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Marcella Bencivenni (2011). Italian Immigrant Radical Culture. The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940. New York; London: New York University Press. p. 95. ISBN 9780814723180.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Il Nuovo Mondo (New York, N.Y.) 1925-1931". Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 John P. Diggins (December 1967). "The Italo-American Anti-Fascist Opposition". The Journal of American History. 54 (3): 589. doi:10.2307/2937408. JSTOR 2937408.
  4. 1 2 Pellegrino Nazzaro (1972). "The manifesto of the North American anti‐fascist alliance, New York, August 26, 1926". Labor History. 13 (3): 418–426. doi:10.1080/00236567208584216.
  5. 1 2 3 Philip V. Cannistraro (Fall 1985). "Luigi Antonini and the Italian Anti-Fascist Movement in the United States, 1940-1943". Journal of American Ethnic History. 5 (1): 21–22. JSTOR 27500414.
  6. ↑ Combined Annual Reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission with Additional Information Regarding Foreign Debts Due the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1927. p. 387.
  7. ↑ "Il Nuovo Mondo Sold". The New York Times. 16 April 1929. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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