Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134.7
Object Name
Poster
Title
Pietro Nenni portfolio - part seven: The Danger of Fascism in Europe
People
Pietro Nenni
Date
1991
Description
This poster is part of a portfolio about Pietro Nenni. This is the seventh part. There is a small red number seven on the top right of the page, indicating this is the seventh poster in the portfolio. This poster has a black text title in Italian - the English translation of this is "The danger of fascism in Europe." This poster shows five black and white photographs. There is a small block of red text in Italian on the bottom right hand side of the poster which explains these photographs. The English translation of this is as follows: "In the photo above, the Italian delegation to the Vienna Congress of the Socialist International. In addition to Nenni, Treves, Modigliani and Turati are recognizable. In the center Nenni, Turati and a group of Italian exiles in Brussels in 1930 during the DeRosa trial. Below a poster posted in Berlin in 1932 to announce a lecture by Pietro Nenni on anti-fascism." There is also a block of black text in Italian. The English translation of this is "In April 1933 the XXII Congress of the Italian Socialist Party takes place in Marseille: Nenni retains the position of director of Avanti! and as a member of the executive of the international, he made several trips as party secretary to hold propaganda conferences against fascism and Nazism, making public opinion in democratic countries understand that fascism was not an exclusively Italian episode but that it tended to expand. Hence the need to make it the basic theme of the struggle of the international workers' movement. Indications that were implemented in 1931 at the Congress of the Socialist International in Vienna."
