Italian Anti-Fascist in London between the Thirties and the Forties

• Autores: Stefania Rampello
• Localización: Nuova rivista storica, ISSN 0029-6236, Vol. 103, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 709-740
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Between the second half of the Thirties and the Forties, various Italian anti-fascistsliving in London show their particular and varied opposition to Fascism. There arethree main turning points for the anti-fascist movement in London: in 1935-1936with the Italo-Ethiopian War first and the Spanish Civil War after; in 1940 with theItalian Declaration of War against Great Britain and France, when anti-fascists mustfight to show they are different to those that the British authorities define genericallywith the name of “enemies”. Several newspapers and leaflets are published amongthe Italian Community in this period, first of all «New Times and Ethiopia News»,thanks to Sylvia Pankhurst and Silvio Corio. The newspaper is dedicated to the defenceof the Ethiopian cause with the contribution of important personalities from thepolitical and academic fields, such as R.C. Hawkin, Secretary of the InternationalArbitration League, or F. S. Livie-Noble, Secretary of the African Affairs Group inLondon. Moreover, another important aim is to fight Fascism in general, because thefascist victims are not only in the Abyssinia cemeteries or in Libya, in concentrationcamps, but also in Italy itself where an entire nation is under fascist control.After the 10thJune 1940 the situation of Italian Community changes, with theinternment decided by Churchill and the terrible death of 446 Italians aboard ArandoraStar. In a Great Britain engaged in an important fight against Nazi-Fascism,thus, the experience of men such as the Catholic Carlo Petrone, socialist AlessandroMagri and Paolo Treves, freemason Francesco Galasso or Giuseppe Gatti seek to emerge,among the terrible events taking place in Europe.