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].

04-23_A.jpg
04-23_B.jpg

Title

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].

Description

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" was the name adopted by Carlo Tresca, and used used on Tresca's letterhead, along with Il Martello, see holographic letter of Tresca in the Collection. (The term is also used more generally for any Italian American bookstore that sold anarchist and socialist works.)

Libreria Rossa also seems to be associated with New York writer, bookseller and publisher, Elvira Catello, the guiding force of one of the most important political-cultural circles of an anarchic and libertarian tendancy in New York. A pacifist and thus opposed to militarism, she founded, together with her husband Elio Perrini, the Libreria Ed. "Lux", a real pole of diffusion within the anarcho-radical Italian American press. 

Leading writers for Umanità Nova included Errico Malatesta, Armando Borghi and Camillo Bernieri, among others several of whose works, for each writer, are in the collection, q.v. When the fascist regime fell, in 1945, publication started up again, this time as a weekly.

The newspaper continues to publish to this day. It declares itself as follows: Umanità Nova presents itself weekly in a paper edition as a place for communication, meeting, intervention and reflection on facts and events of social anarchism, libertarian movements, anti-authoritarian, anti-clericalism, of the world of work and basic unionism, direct action, battles over territory, social spaces and worker management journeys.

Bookseller and expert on the Italian American left, Lorne Bair refers to this work, however, as more of a Communist tract published shortly after the Russian Revolution. Indeed, the work calls for an immediate proletarian revolution, with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders to prevent a flight of the bourgeoisie; and management of the new society through a free arrangement of persons and competent groups.

I cannot find anything about the author who used the pseudonym Emme, although there was a Spanish female anarchist writer named Emme Dalla Dea.

Creator

Emme

Publisher

Casa ed. Libreria Rossa

Date

[c. 1921]

Format

18 x 12cm; 24 p.

Language

Italian

Citation

Emme, “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].,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/159.

Output Formats

Geolocation

Comments

Allowed tags: <p>, <a>, <em>, <strong>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>