A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #20-25 - Anarchism. A global and Italian history (1945-2025). On the 80th anniversary of the Italian Anarchist Federation. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Study conference in memory of Italino Rossi - Carrara 11-12 October 2025 
---- In the name of Bakunin, Malatesta, Berneri, but also Gino Lucetti 
and anti-fascism... ---- The FAI, a structured, federalist, self-managed 
organization, was born as the heir of the UAI (Italian Anarchist Union 
of 1919-20) and of various associative experiences of anti-fascist 
exile, the war in Spain, confinement and the armed Resistance. It was 
established in September 1945 in Carrara where it celebrated its first 
national congress with the participation of numerous delegates from all 
over Italy. In the meantime, «Umanità Nova» was re-released as a weekly 
- a periodical that is still published today - a glorious daily 
newspaper silenced by the fascists. The climate of the "nascent state" 
was euphoric and raised great hopes. The salient points of the 
libertarian political struggle then concerned the problems of 
reconstruction, trade union action and the organization of the movement. 
Specifically, on reconstruction, the following objectives were 
indicated: neutrality of Italy and refusal of military spending; 
equality for women; direct action against landowners; study for the 
application of new collectively managed production systems; financing 
for building reconstruction managed locally; free and free school. For 
the movement, however, it was a traumatic transition from the mass 
protagonism of the pre-fascist period to a new national and global 
scenario: the advent of democracy and the republic in Italy, and the 
Cold War unfolding across the continents that required libertarians to 
have a renewed anti-totalitarian as well as anti-capitalist and 
anti-militarist commitment.

Today, 80 years later, a group of scholars, with the support of highly 
specialized archives and study centers, is promoting a two-day 
scientific conference in order to highlight, in the long time span that 
has passed, elements of continuity and "rupture", periodizations and 
militant, "cultural" and generational paths, of an anarchism that, from 
the immediate post-war period, has crossed - contaminating itself and 
contaminating the movements - the late twentieth century and now the 
first quarter of the current century. The views that are proposed are at 
the same time "Italian" and global, territorial and "from below". The 
approach will be multidisciplinary and transnational, privileging 
relational networks, life stories and biographies of militants, 
identifying the connections between anarchism and contemporary radical 
thought.

The conference is divided into four thematic sessions: Transnational 
geographies of Italian anarchism; Anarchists and political parties in 
republican Italy (1946-1977); Anarchism and new movements 
(anarcha-feminism, anti-speciesism, Lgbtqia+, ...); Anarchism, unions 
and social conflicts.

The days are dedicated to the memory of Italino Rossi (1940-2024), 
scholar and militant of the Italian Anarchist Federation.

Giorgio Sacchetti

Coordinator of the Scientific Committee

sacchetti.giorgio@gmail.com

Carrara, June 2025

p.s. program and info to follow

https://umanitanova.org/anarchismo-una-storia-globale-e-italiana-1945-2025-nell80-della-federazione-anarchica-italiana-2/
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