Ernesto Rossi (politician)

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Ernesto Rossi (born August 25, 1897 in Caserta , † February 9, 1967 in Rome ) was an Italian politician , journalist and anti-fascist . He contributed to the establishment of the Partito d'Azione and later the Partito Radicale and was co-author of the “ Manifesto of Ventotene ” in 1941, one of the founding documents of European integration .

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Rossi volunteered in World War I at the age of 19 . From 1919 to 1922 he worked for the newspaper Popolo d'Italia , which Benito Mussolini directed. During this time he met the author and politician Gaetano Salvemini , with whom he later worked. Through his friendship with Salvemini Rossi became a critic and resolute opponent of fascism. After his arrest in 1930 he was imprisoned in Rome for 9 years before he was brought to Ventotene , an island in the Gulf of Gaeta (between Rome and Naples). In July 1941 he was one of the authors of the anti-fascist Manifesto di Ventotene alongside Altiero Spinelli and Eugenio Colorni . In it, the authors called for the establishment of a European federal state that should have common institutions and a common army. At the same time they pleaded that this “European revolution” should be a socialist one and that it should work for the “emancipation of the working class”.

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SURNAME Rossi, Ernesto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician , journalist and anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Caserta
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1967
Place of death Rome