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When the newly elected Chamber of Deputies assembled for the first time on May 30, 1924, Giacomo Matteotti, the leader of the reformist Unitary Socialist Party founded in October 1922, spoke for nearly two hours, bucking a chorus of incessant howls, insults, and threats from Fascist deputies. He presented documentary evidence that the electoral victories of the Fascists had been achieved in April through violence and intimidation, and demanded the nullification of the election. Departing the chamber after his speech, Matteotti said to a colleague: “And now, get ready to deliver my funeral oration.”1
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Gaetano Salvemini, The Fascist Dictatorship in Ital? ( New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1927 ), 246.
Quoted in Giorgio Pini and Duilio Susmel, eds., Mussolini: l’uomo e l’oper?, 4 vols. (Florence: La Fenice, 1954): vol. 2: Dal fascismo alla dittatura (1919–1925?, 409–410.
Ibid., September 13, 1924; The New York Time?, September 16, 17, 1924; Pellegrino Nazzaro, “Fascist and Anti-Fascist Reaction in the United States to the Matteotti Murder,” in Francesco Cordasco, ed., Studies in Italian American Social History: Essays in Honor of Leonard Covell? ( Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Little Field, 1975 ), 50–65.
Quoted in Nello Rosselli, Mazzini e Bakounine: 1860–187? ( Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1927 ), 387.
Il Martell?, November 14, 1925; Charles F. Delzell, Mussolini’s Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistanc? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961), 33–34
Adrian Lyttelton, The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 19–192? ( New York: Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1973 ), 267.
Carlo Tresca, L’Attentato a Mussolin ovvero il segreto di Pulcinell? (New York: Il Martell?, 1925), 6–32 passim.
Enzo Colotti, “Vittorio Vidalia” in Franco Andreucci and Tommaso Detti, eds., Il movimento operaio italiano: Dizionario biografic? (Rome: Editori Eiuniti, 1978) 5, 229–232; Gallagher, All the Right Enemie?, 137–138; ide?, “Revolutionary Requirement, Etc.,” Green Stree? 4, No. 2 (winter 1985): 226–234
Max Shachtman, “Vittorio Vidali,” Labor Defende? 2, 1 (January 1927): 2.
For his own account of his American sojourn, see Vittorio Vidali, Orizzonti di libert? ( Milan: Vangelista, 1980 ), 171–263.
Cenno Biografico of Vacirca, in ACS, Min. Int., CPC: Vacirca, Vincenzo; Il Nuovo Mond?, September 29, 1926; John F. Romanucci, “The Italian Labor Press in America,” La Parola del Popol? 26 (September–October 1976): 226–229; Giuseppe Miccichè, “Vincenzo Vacirca;” Il movimento operaio italiano: Dizionario biografic? 5: 160–163.
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Pernicone, N. (2005). The Resistance Awakens. In: Carlo Tresca. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981097_15
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