Young Italy (1954)
| Young Italy Giovane Italia | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1954 |
| Dissolved | 1971 |
| Ideology | National conservatism Italian nationalism Neo-fascism |
| Mother party | Italian Social Movement |
The Young Italy (Italian: Giovane Italia) was the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement from 1954 to 1971.
History
The "Young Italy" student association was officially founded in Rome on 13 and 14 November 1954. Up to that moment the young people in the MSI joined the Students and Workers Youth Rally, founded in 1947 with Roberto Mieville as first secretary.
The declared purpose of the then secretary of the Students and Workers Youth Rally of the MSI was to enter schools more easily, setting aside the party name. The circular outlined the aims of the Young Italy, namely to awaken a sense of homeland in all students and to promote cultural, scientific, recreational and sporting activities.
At the Rome conference, which sanctioned the foundation of Young Italy as an autonomous national body, albeit linked to the Italian Social Movement and in which over 200 young people representing the provincial associations set up in the various regions participate, Massimo Anderson was elected first Secretary General[1] and Fabio De Felice was elected President.
In 1971 Anderson and Cerullo, brought together the "Young Italy" and the "Students and Workers Youth Rally", in a new political entity called Youth Front, with Anderson as secretary and Cerullo as president.[2]
Ideology
The first official document of Young Italy was the "Youth Charter", drawn up by Julius Evola in 1951, on which the doctrine and purpose of the association are based.
According to Evola, the concept of life provided was "spiritualistic" and contrasted with the "materialist" one of Marxism.[3] The Charter defined himself as a model of young belonging with a "revolutionary", "militant" character and who had to "possess a spiritual, heroic and competitive vision of life".
Symbol
The symbol of the movement was an arm that held a Tricolor Torch.
National secretaries
- Fabio De Felice (1954–1955)
- Angelo Nicosia (1955–1957)
- Fausto Gianfranceschi (1957–1966)
- Massimo Anderson (1966–1969)
- Pietro Cerullo (1969–1971)
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