Marxists Internet Archive: History Archive: USA: Publications: L’Avanti!
L’Avanti!
(1918-1921)
Introduction
An active socialist movement among Italian immigrants in the United States began to take organized form in 1902 when an Italian-Language Socialist Federation (FSI) was created. Initially affiliated with the Socialist Labor Party in the following year, it withdrew to become an independent organization. After 1906, the FSI underwent a split, as some members wanted the organization to associate with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and others with the Socialist Party. The pro-IWW group began publication of its newspaper, Il Proletario. In 1910 the pro-Socialist Party Italians formally launched the Italian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party at a Congress in West Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1918 the weekly L’Avanti! was born as the official organ of this FSI. Edited by Girolamo Valenti and Giuseppe Bertelli it continued publication until 1922 when the name was changed to La Parola del Popolo.
L’Avanti! carried national and international news, and regularly reported on the work of the Socialist Party, USA. It also carried notices and reports from local branches of the FSI around the country. Unlike many of the other foreign language federations of the Socialist Party, the majority of the FSI remained loyal to the Socialist Party after its split with the Communists in 1919.
Here we provide a broken run of L’Avanti! from late 1918 through 1921.
1918
Volume I, Number 4, October 1, 1918
Volume I, Number 5, October 15, 1918
Volume I, Number 7, November 15, 1918
Volume I, Number 8, December 1, 1918
Volume I, Number 10, December 31, 1918
1919
Volume I, Number 11, January 15, 1919
Volume II, Number 2, January 30, 1919
Volume II, Number 3, February 15, 1919
Volume II, Number 4, February 20, 1919
Volume II, Number 5, February 22, 1919
Volume II, Number 6, March 1, 1919
Volume II, Number 7, March 8, 1919
Volume II, Number 8, March 15, 1919
Volume II, Number 10, March 29, 1919
Volume II, Number 11, April 5, 1919
Volume II, Number 12, April 12, 1919
Volume II, Number 13, April 19, 1919
Volume II, Number 15, May 3, 1919
Volume II, Number 16, May 10, 1919
Volume II, Numbers 17-18, May 17-24, 1919
Volume II, Number 19, May 31, 1919
Volume II, Number 20, June 7, 1919
Volume II, Number 21, June 14, 1919
Volume II, Number 22, June 21, 1919
Volume II, Number 23, June 28, 1919
Volume II, Number 24, July 5, 1919
Volume II, Number 25, July 19, 1919
Volume II, Number 26, July 26, 1919
Volume II, Number 29, August 9, 1919
Volume II, Number 30, August 16, 1919
Volume II, Number 31, August 23, 1919
Volume II, Number 32, August 30, 1919
Volume II, Number 33, September 6, 1919
Volume II, Number 34, September 13, 1919
Volume II, Number 35, September 20, 1919
Volume II, Number 36, September 27, 1919
Volume II, Number 37, October 4, 1919
Volume II, Number 38, October 11, 1919
Volume II, Number 39, October 25, 1919
Volume II, Number 40, November 1, 1919
Volume II, Number 41, November 9, 1919
Volume II, Number 43, November 22, 1919
Volume II, Number 44, November 29, 1919
Volume II, Number 45, December 6, 1919
Volume II, Number 47, December 20, 1919
1920
Volume III, Number 6, February 7, 1920
Volume III, Number 7, February 14, 1920
Volume III, Number 8, February 21, 1920
Volume III, Number 9, February 28, 1920
Volume III, Number 10, March 6, 1920
Volume III, Number 11, March 13, 1920
Volume III, Number 12, March 20, 1920
Volume III, Number 14, April 3, 1920
Volume III, Number 15, April 10, 1920
Volume III, Numbers 16-17, May 1, 1920
Volume III, Numbers 18-19, May 8, 1920
Volume III, Numbers 20-21, May 22, 1920
Volume III, Number 22, May 29, 1920
Volume III, Number 25, June 19, 1920
Volume III, Number 26, June 26, 1920
Volume III, Number 27, July 3, 1920
Volume III, Numbers 28-29, July 17, 1920
Volume III, Number 31, August 7, 1920
Volume III, Number 32, August 14, 1920
Volume III, Number 34, August 21, 1920
Volume III, Number 35, August 28, 1920
Volume III, Number 36, September 4, 1920
Volume III, Number 37, September 11, 1920
Volume III, Number 38, September 18, 1920
Volume III, Number 39, September 25, 1920
Volume III, Number 40, October 2, 1920
Volume III, Number 41, October 9, 1920
Volume III, Number 42, October 16, 1920
Volume III, Number 43, October 23, 1920
Volume III, Number 44, October 30, 1920
Volume III, Number 45, November 6, 1920
Volume III, Number 49, December 4, 1920
Volume III, Numbers 51-52, December 25, 1920
1921
Volume IV, Number 1, January 1, 1921
Volume IV, Number 2, January 8, 1921
Volume IV, Number 4, January 22, 1921
Volume IV, Number 5, January 29, 1921
Volume IV, Number 7, February 12, 1921
Volume IV, Number 8, February 19, 1921
Volume IV, Number 9, February 26, 1921
Volume IV, Number 10, March 5, 1921
Volume IV, Number 11, March 12, 1921
Volume IV, Number 12, March 19, 1921
Volume IV, Number 16, April 16, 1921
Volume IV, Number 17, April 30, 1921
Volume IV, Numbers 19-20, May 14, 1921
Volume IV, Number 22, May 28, 1921
Volume IV, Number 23, June 11, 1921
Volume IV, Number 24, June 25, 1921
Volume IV, Number 26, July 23, 1921
Volume IV, Number 27, August 6, 1921
Volume IV, Number 28, August 20, 1921
Volume IV, Number 29, September 3, 1921
Volume IV, Number 30, September 17, 1921
Volume IV, Number 31, October 1, 1921
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