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Il Proletario
(1916-1921)
Introduction
For much of its 25 year history, Il Proletario was the most important Italian-American left periodical. Founded in 1896 by Italians associated with the Socialist Labor Party, starting in 1903 it became the official organ of the independent Italian Socialist Federation (FSI). The prominent Italian Socialist Giacinto Menotti Serrati, then living in exile in the US, played a major role in keeping the paper afloat in this early period.
Over the years, Il Proletario covered all the great labor and social struggles of the US left such as the Bread and Roses Strike and the Sacco-Vanzetti case. But it also closely followed the struggles of the left in Italy and around the world as well. Important Italian-American radicals wrote for the paper, including Carlo Tresca, Arturo Giovannitti, and Joe Ettor. The relationship between Italian Socialists and Italian activists in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and between the two organizations themselves was a major subject of debate in the paper as was the question of syndicalism in general. At one point the paper ’s masthead carried the motto: “By conquering the factory, we will conquer the world.”
Governmental repression during World War I forced the closure of the paper in 1918 and it did not reappear under that name until 1920. The following year the FSI was absorbed by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the FSI ’s Il Proletario became “the Italian Weekly of the Industrial Workers of the World.”
Between 1903 and 1906 Il Proletario was a daily paper. Thereafter, it became a weekly publication. Here we provide a broken run of the paper from December 1916 to August 1921.
1916
Volume XX, Number 46, December 2, 1916
Volume XX, Number 47, December 9, 1916
Volume XX, Number 48, December 16, 1916
Volume XX, Number 49, December 23, 1916
1917
Volume XXI, Number 1, January 6, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 2, January 13, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 3, January 20, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 5, February 3, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 6, February 11, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 7, February 17, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 8, February 25, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 9, March 3, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 10, March 10, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 11, March 17, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 12, March 24, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 13, March 31, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 14, April 7, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 15, April 14, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 16, April 28, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 18, May 12, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 19, May 19, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 20, May 26, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 22, June 2, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 23, June 9, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 24, June 23, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 25, June 30, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 26, July 7, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 27, July 14, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 28, July 21, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 29, July 29, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 31, August 11, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 32, August 19, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 33, September 15, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 34, September 22, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 35, October 6, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 40, November 10, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 41, November 17, 1917
Volume XXI, Number 45, December 15, 1917
1918
Volume XXII, Number 1, January 7, 1918
Volume XXII, Number 2, January 14, 1918
Volume XXII, Number 3, January 26, 1918
Volume XXII, Number 6, February 16, 1918
Volume XXII, Number 7, February 23, 1918
Volume XXII, Number 10, March 30, 1918
1920
Volume XXIV, Number 13, May 1, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 22, July 10, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 25, July 17, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 25, July 24, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 26, July 31, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 27, August 7, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 28, August 14, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 29, August 21, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 30, August 28, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 31, September 4, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 32, September 11, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 33, September 18, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 34, September 25, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 35, October 2, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 36, October 9, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 37, October 16, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 38, October 23, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 39, October 30, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 40, November 6, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 41, November 13, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 42, November 20, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 43, November 27, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 44, December 4, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 45, December 11, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 46, December 18, 1920
Volume XXIV, Number 47, December 25, 1920
1921
Volume XXV, Number 1, January 1, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 2, January 8, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 3, January 15, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 4, January 22, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 5, January 29, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 6, February 5, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 7, February 12, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 8, February 19, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 9, February 26, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 10, March 5, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 11, March 12, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 12, March 19, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 13, March 26, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 14, April 2, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 15, April 9, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 16, April 16, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 17, May 1, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 18, May 7, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 19, May 14, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 21, May 28, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 22, June 4, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 23, June 11, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 24, June 18, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 25, June 25, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 26, July 2, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 27, July 9, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 28, July 16, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 29, July 23, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 30, July 30, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 31, August 6, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 32, August 13, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 33, August 20, 1921
Volume XXV, Number 34, August 27, 1921
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