Guardia Rossa: il terrore bianco in America [Red Guard: the white terror of America], No. 4. New York: A cura della Libreria Rossa, 1 Maggio [May] 1920.

Guardia Rossa: il terrore bianco in America [Red Guard: the white terror of America], No. 4. New York: A cura della Libreria Rossa, 1 Maggio [May] 1920.

This magazine by Carlo Tresca did not have a terribly long run, especially compared to his signature work, Il Martello, q.v. I do not know in what sense the "Red Guard" could have been considered a "white terror." (To say the obvious, Tresca, whose opposition to injustice extended to his decrying the lynching of Blacks, was not advocating any form of white superiority.)

Tresca's preface, see photo, notes that when he first set foot in America, in August  1914, he was inspired by the Statue of Liberty to believe he had arrived in the land of liberty. But he'd come to know otherwise, and declared in this first issue of a new magazine in 1920 - three years after he had started Il Martello - that he had become disillusioned, disenchanted with the United States, the reasons for which the reader would find out in the pages that follow in the magazine. What Guardia Rossa might have offered readers that Il Martello did not already do so is unclear.

Note that the nominal publisher, Libreria Rossa [Red Bookstore, or Red Library], was a name that appears on the same letterhead as that of Il Martello in the holographic undated letter of Tresca's in the Collection, q.v. The letterhead shows U. Nieri as the Secretary of the Libreria Rossa. 

The Collection has several other works published by the Libreria Rossa, some of which are associated - at an earlier time - with Elvira Catello, q.v., a writer, bookseller and publisher in New York who appears to be the first Italian American woman, writing in Italian, having the latter two of these three roles.

Compilata da Carlo Tresca

A cura della Libreria Rossa

1 Maggio [May] 1920

Italian