Il Nuovo Mondo
{{Short description|Italian language newspaper in the United States (1925–1931)}}
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| foundation = 16 November 1925
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| language = Italian
| ceased publication = 29 November 1931
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Il Nuovo Mondo was an Italian language anti-Fascist daily newspaper which was published in New York City and then, in Chicago between 1926 and 1931. The paper was the first anti-Fascist daily published abroad by the Italians.{{cite book|author=Marcella Bencivenni
|title=Italian Immigrant Radical Culture. The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940|year=2011|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York; London|page=95|isbn=9780814723180|url=https://nyupress.org/9780814791035/italian-immigrant-radical-culture/}}
History and profile
Il Nuovo Mondo was started in New York City in 1925, and the first issue appeared on 16 November.{{cite web|title=Il Nuovo Mondo (New York, N.Y.) 1925-1931|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86071645/|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=30 January 2022}} Frank Bellanca was the founder{{cite journal|issue=3|author=John P. Diggins|title=The Italo-American Anti-Fascist Opposition
|journal=The Journal of American History|date=December 1967|volume=54|page=589|doi=10.2307/2937408|jstor=2937408|author-link=John Patrick Diggins}} and also, served as its director. The members of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, a socialist-syndicalist group, were also instrumental in the establishment of the paper.{{cite journal|author=Philip V. Cannistraro|pages=21–22|title=Luigi Antonini and the Italian Anti-Fascist Movement in the United States, 1940-1943|date=Fall 1985|journal=Journal of American Ethnic History|volume=5|issue=1|jstor=27500414}} The financier of the paper was Local 89 which was a unit of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The general secretary of the Local 89 was an Italian, Luigi Antonini. The paper was published by Avanti News Company daily except for Mondays.
Il Nuovo Mondo mostly featured the articles written by the Italian exiles who left Italy due to the oppression of the Fascist rule in Italy. The paper also covered writings of the American critics of Fascism. It published the manifesto of the North American Anti-Fascist Alliance on 26 August 1926.{{cite journal|author=Pellegrino Nazzaro
|title=The manifesto of the North American anti‐fascist alliance, New York, August 26, 1926|journal=Labor History
|year=1972|volume=13|issue=3|pages=418–426|doi=10.1080/00236567208584216}}
Il Nuovo Mondo was initially a labor organ,{{cite book|title=Combined Annual Reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission with Additional Information Regarding Foreign Debts Due the United States|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|year=1927
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgF0gH6Cs28C&pg=PA387|page=387}} but it was sold to the Italian socialist exiles in April 1929.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/04/16/archives/il-nuovo-mondo-sold-local-antifascist-newspaper-is-bought-by.html|date=16 April 1929|title=Il Nuovo Mondo Sold|access-date=30 January 2022|work=The New York Times}} From 2 October 1929 to 8 February 1930 the paper was published in Chicago. The final issue of Il Nuovo Mondo was 282 which was published on 29 November 1931.
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Category:Newspapers established in 1925
Category:Publications disestablished in 1931
Category:Socialist newspapers published in the United States