''L'Ordine Nuovo'' (Italian for "The New Order") was a weekly newspaper established on 1 May 1919, in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

, Italy, by a group, including Antonio Gramsci, Angelo Tasca and

Palmiro Togliatti Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti (; 26 March 1893 – 21 August 1964) was an Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death. He was nicknamed ("The Best") by his supporters. In 1930 he became a citizen of ...

, within the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Socialism, socialist and later Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the l ...

. The paper was the successor of ''La Città futura'', a broadsheet newspaper. The founders of ''L'Ordine Nuovo'' were admirers of the Russian Revolution and strongly supported the immediate creation of

soviets Soviet people ( rus, сове́тский наро́д, r=sovyétsky naród), or citizens of the USSR ( rus, гра́ждане СССР, grázhdanye SSSR), was an umbrella demonym for the population of the Soviet Union. Nationality policy in ...

in Italy. They believed that existing factory councils of workers could be strengthened so that they could become the basis of a communist revolution. However,

Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga (13 June 1889 – 25 July 1970) was an Italian Marxist theorist, revolutionary socialist, founder of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), member of the Communist International (Comintern) and later a leading figure of the Interna ...

, who would become the founder of the

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, criticised the plan as

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, saying that soviets should only be created after Italy had come under communist control. Initially the newspaper, which was founded with union backing, focused on cultural politics, but in June 1919, the month following its founding, Gramsci and Togliatti pushed Tasca out and re-focused as a revolutionary voice. The newspaper reached a circulation of 6,000 by the end of the year and its reputation was heightened by its support of the April 1920 general strike, which the Socialist Party and the affiliated General Confederation of Labour did not support. On 1 January 1921, the paper began to be published on a daily basis. In January 1921, Bordiga and the supporters of ''L'Ordine Nuovo'' left the Socialist Party in order to establish the new

.Bellamy, p. xxv The paper went defunct in 1922, to resume in March 1924 by publishing intermittently the last eight numbers until March 1925.

References

;Notes ;Sources * Bellamy, Richard Paul (Ed.). ''Antonio Gramsci: pre-prison writings'' Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994 * Bellamy, Richard Paul & Darrow Schecter (1993).
Gramsci and the Italian State
', Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, * Lindemann, Albert S. ''The Red years: European socialism versus bolshevism, 1919-1921''. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974

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