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Discorso radiofonico in Italiano sulla campagna elletorale: domenica, 23 ottobre [Radio Speech in Italian on the electoral campaign of Sunday, October 23]. The Bronx: Il Partito Comunista della Contea del Bronx, [1938].Nunzio was the pseudonym of Mike Salerno, who edited L'Unita Operai, a Communist newspaper.It is curious to me that there was a Bronx County chapter…
Amici Italo-Americani! [Italian-American Friends!]. New York: Commissione Italiana del Comitato Statale di New York del Partito Comunista [April 1942]There is no printed date on this two-sided, all in Italian, handbill signed by Peter - sometimes "Pietro" - Cacchione, the first member of the New…
Perché la guerra in Africa [Why the War in Africa?]. New York: Casa ed. "Unità"/ Società ed. "L'Unità", [1935?]We can estimate the date of this work because the introduction begins from the vantage point of "21 years after the beginning of the last world war,"…
Il capitale: semplificato e volgarizzato ad uso degli operai [Capital: Simplified and Popularized for the Use of Workers]. Chicago: La Parola Printing & Publishing House, 1911.This abridged and simplified version of Marx's foundational text of communism is preceded by a short explanation of Marx's life and works prepared by…
Se si farà la rivoluzione in Italia, si morrà di fame? [Will We Die of Hunger if There's a Revolution in Italy?]. New York: Casa ed. Libreria Rossa, [c. 1921].This work is taken from Umanità Nova, a Milanese leftist newspaper that was founded in 1920, and shut down by the fascists in 1922. "Libreria Rossa"…
Tears. New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943.Angelica Balabanoff (b. Ukraine 1878, d. Rome 1965) was a Russian Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist. She served as secretary of…
Un appello agli Italiani [An Appeal to Italians]. [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, [1942.]Text is only in Italian, unlike the "Per un governo" which is otherwise a similar pamphlet issued by the Italian Communist Party, whose newspaper was…
Per un governo di pace e di liberta in Italia! [For a Government of Peace and Liberty in Italy!] [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, 1942."Appeal of the Italian National Front at the Underground Conference in Milan, December, 1942." L'Unità del Popolo was the Italian-language newspaper…
San Francisco e la sua catastrofe [San Francisco and its Catastrophe]. Tipografia Internazionale, 1906.After the Italians of New York, those of San Francisco (and Chicago) probably had the most well-developed network of periodical press, book press,…
Gli Italo-Americani e la guerra [Italian Americans and the War]. New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1940.Published for National Election Campaign Committee Communist Party of the United States.Cacchione was the first member of the New York City Council…
Alba Nuova: Rivista Mensile di Critica e di Pensiero (numero doppio) [New Dawn: Monthly Review of Criticism and Thought (Number 2)]. New York: Mario Rapisardi Literary Society, 1921.Alba Nuova (1921-1924) was the official organ of the Federazione dei Lavoratori Italiani d'America, a section of the American Labor Alliance, formed…
La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.Only two years before this 1944…