Alfonso Leonetti
Alfonso Leonetti (born September 13, 1895 in Andria , † December 26, 1984 in Rome ; pseudonym: Feroci ) was an Italian journalist and politician.
Life
Born in Andria , Leonetti worked as an editor of the socialist party newspaper Avanti! in Turin. He belonged to a group around Antonio Gramsci and Angelo Tasca , who founded the Communist Party of Italy ( Partito Comunista Italiano ) together with supporters of Amadeo Bordigas in 1921 . From 1924 to 1926 Leonetti was head of L'Unità , in 1926 a member of the Central Committee and in 1927 of the Politburo of the KPI. He later worked for the KPI in exile in Paris .
In 1930 he was expelled from the KPI because he protested against Comintern politics with Paolo Ravazzoli and Pietro Tresso . Thereafter, Leonetti was the editor of a bulletin of the New Italian Opposition , which saw itself as a Trotskyist organization. Since Leonetti rejected Trotsky's criticism of the Comintern's Popular Front policy, he separated from the Left Opposition .
In 1945 he became a member of the French Communist Party , worked for their party press and headed a cadre school. However, at the instigation of the Italian comrades, his membership was canceled. In 1960 he returned to Italy and, after a discussion with Palmiro Togliatti, was re-admitted to the PCI in 1962. From 1970 he campaigned for the political rehabilitation of the victims of Stalinism .
Works (selection)
- Mouvements ouvriers et socialistes. Chronologie et bibliographie, L'Italie. Des origines à 1922. Paris, Les éditions ouvrières, 1952.
- Un comunista (1895-1930). Milano, Feltrinelli, 1977.
- Il cammino di un ordinovista. L'ottobre, il fascismo, i problemi della democrazia socialista. Scritti politici (1919-1975). Bari, De Donato, 1978.
- Vittime italiane dello stalinismo in Urss. Milano, La salamandra, 1978.
literature
- Giuseppe Sircana: Leonetti, Alfonso. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64: Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
Web links
- Standard entry in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
- Publications by Leonetti in the Opac des SBN
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, December 25, 1984 is given as the date of death
- ↑ Life data from: Trotsky writings . Volume 2.1, Hamburg 1988, footnote 19, p. 951 as well as Abtrünnig against Will: From letters and manuscripts of exile by Ruth Fischer and Arkadij Maslow, Munich 1990, p. 643.
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SURNAME | Leonetti, Alfonso |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feroci (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian journalist and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1895 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Andria |
DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1984 |
Place of death | Rome |