Umanità Nova
| Type | weekly |
|---|---|
| Format | print and web |
| Publisher | c/o la coop. Tipolitografica, via S. Piero 13/A 54033 Carrara (MS) |
| Editor-in-chief | Associazione Umanità Nova Reggio Emilia |
| Managing editors | Giorgio Sacchetti |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | www |
Umanità Nova is an Italian anarchist newspaper founded in 1920.
It was published daily until 1922, when it was shut down by the fascist regime. In some places its circulation exceeded that of the socialist paper Avanti!. Upon the fall of the regime in 1945, publication began again, this time as a weekly.
The paper continues today and Umanità Nova is the mouthpiece of the Italian Anarchist Federation.
Contributors to Umanità Nova include its founders, Errico Malatesta and Antonio Cieri; Camillo Berneri, Armando Borghi, and Carlo Frigerio.
The paper was begun in 1909, by Ettore Molinari and Nella Giacomelli, who thought to turn the pamphlet "Human Protest" (La Protesta Umana) into a daily journal. During a national convention in 1911, the Rome Anarchist Communist Group proposed a national outlet to reach the movement outside the country, and in turn reinforce it within Italy. In April 1919, a large gathering of Italian anarchists, both organizationalists and individualists, attended a national convention in Florence, and agreed upon the need to close ranks and form a union together: the Italian Anarchist Communist Union. One of the main resolutions was to print a paper, and when Molinari and Giacomelli proposed it be published as a national daily, they and Emilio Spinaci were given the responsibility of determining whether it was possible to accomplish the feat of getting all the anarchists together, and began gathering the funds.
Nella Giacomelli gave the paper its present name, saying,
" 'Umanità Nova' is the title of the anarchist daily we are planning — a mild name, almost evangelical, out of tune, some say, with the quick breath of a society in turmoil, with the jolting events, the threat of violent action and the bold daring of this time that we live in. [....] Umanità Nova! : it embraces the full meaning of our highest hopes, and it sets a path to follow without fail. [....] We are setting out for the inevitable. The revolution is no longer a dream; libertarian communism is an achievable goal; the anarchic ideal is no longer a utopia. The cry of the masses, pouring from the workshops, and the salt of endless, fertile fields, represents the greatest human protest against secular human suffering; Spartacus is about to break his chains; many consciousnesses will rise up to renew the world. Umanità Nova, the supreme goal of all our battles and our pain, we adopt you as a shining symbol of a living vision, and we raise you up to the masses, to all our hearts, to the lantern and the flag of light and freedom."
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