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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Political subversives III: Fascists and anti-fascists Description An account of the resource The Anti-Fascist movement embraced diverse leftists, including Carlo Tresca, as noted above. Opposition to Mussolini from the left was reflected by activities of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, which formed common ground for anarchists, socialists/syndicalists and communists to temporarily set aside their differences and unite against fascist oppression. Gone, at least temporarily, were the debates about proper philosophy of the left: the goal was to unite in order to defeat fascism. As for fascism itself, its roots were in the nationalist fervor stoked by Italy’s late 19th and early 20th century imperialist ventures in Africa, which are reflected in several items in the collection. Fascism itself, with its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_radicalism">radical</a> nationalist agenda, came to prominence in the first quarter of 20th-century Europe, originating in Italy during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I">World War I</a>. Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist Party, a right-wing organization which launched a campaign of terrorism and intimidation against its leftist opponents, and forced the king in 1922 to name him the Prime Minister as a result of the fascists’ show of force in the March on Rome. In America, active fascist supporters started two magazines that vied for primacy with Mussolini as instruments of the Fascist Party in America. Agostino de Biasi’s Il Carroccio, (The Chariot) was published from 1915 until 1935 - most years of the magazine are in the collection - with a circulation of about 10,000–12,000, long-lived initially but ultimately with a circulation of only about one-third of Domenico Trombetta’s far more militant Il Grido della Stirpe (The Cry of the Race), which became the largest circulation pro-fascist periodical at about 30,000 at its height in the mid-late 1920s, dropping to about 5,000 in the late 1930s as Italian Americans soured on Mussolini. Mussolini also promoted teaching the Italian language to Italian American schoolchildren, reflected in several items in the collection. Both fascist and therefore anti-fascist activities were not confined to New York, Chicago and other big cities. By the early 1920s, Fascist Party cells in the United States were present in Buffalo, Albany, Rochester and Syracuse. Subject The topic of the resource This section of the collection reflects tensions between fascists and anti-fascists. But the anti-fascist movement in the U.S. among Italians and others had far less to fear from Mussolini than did such dissidents in Italy itself. Savage portrayals and caricatures of Mussolini and of fascism are fully reflected in the collection. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La battaglia dell'Italia negli Stati Uniti - 1925-1926: articoli e note polemiche; con ritratto e autografo di Benito Mussolini [The Battle of Italy in the United States - 1925-1926: essays and polemical notes; with a portrait and autograph of Benito Mussolini]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1927. Description An account of the resource This work consists of polemical articles (against syndicalists and other enemies of fascism) from the prior two years of Il Carroccio as publisher, not simply as printer (as in the case of De Fiori's Mussolini). De Biasi (b. Sant-Angelo dei Lombardi (Avellino), Italy, 1875 - d. New York, NY 1964) arrived in New York in 1900, was employed by Il Progresso, and a year later, became subeditor. In 1905, already joint owner and director of Il Telegrafo, with his brother Pasquale he founded L'Opnione in Philadelphia, and then went on to work for L'Araldo Italiano of New York. He was the founding director and editor in chief of Il Carroccio, an early (1915) nationalist and pro-fascist political and literary journal or newspaper, published monthly until 1937 (with some suspension at the end of the 1920s due to disagreements with the fascist hierarchy). Facing the title page is the note that the work is "to educate America to the victory of Italy - to agitate among the living who are dead the torch of the dead who remain alive." Its strong support of Mussolini is suggested by the tipped-in plate that is a photographic portrait of Il Duce with an "autograph" inscription to De Biasi that was probably in all copies. The newspaper or magazine was elegant and well-written, especially compared to the daily and often rushed Il Progress Italo-Americano. Il Carroccio was a literary as well as political journal, and published stories by several women writers. The collection contains more than a decade of issues of Il Carroccio, one of its most complete holdings of any periodical. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Agostino De Biasi Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Il Carroccio Publ. Co. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 20 x 13.5cm; 408 p. Language A language of the resource Italian 1921-1930 Durante fascist Il Carroccio Il Progresso Italo-Americano Il Telegrafo L'Araldo Italiano nationalist New York newspaper press