The Revolutionary Situation in Italy by Halonen
George Halonen reports for Federated Press that Italy faces a critical cabinet crisis and rising revolutionary pressure. Nitti resigns repeatedly before Giolitti forms a cabinet amid widespread strikes, peasant unrest, and calls for workers councils to prepare for a proletarian dictatorship and communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Halonen
Federated Press
Nitti
Giovannis Giolitti
Socialist Party of Italy
Workers’ Party
Sigament
Ruminations of a Rebel by Clifford on May Days and politics
A critical column attacks bourgeois capitalism and its alleged spiritual emptiness while praising worker solidarity, recalling Debs' imprisonment and May Day outrages. It denounces postwar finance schemes, warns of bonds as soldier bonuses, mocks Republican convention indifference, and foresees a future of sober thinking emerging from current unrest.
The Moneyless Man Curses A World Of Closed Doors
A poem laments the fate of the moneyless man, asking where charity and justice reside. It condemns opulent halls and courts for denying aid, urging the reader to face poverty's harshness from a patch worn by the poor and a home without bread. The piece ends with a bleak claim that even heaven offers no welcome to the penniless.
Still Thirsting for Blood of American Slackers
A reprint of Linn A. B Gale’s polemic denounces U S munitions makers and financial elites for promising harsh fate to American “slackers” in Mexico. It argues Wall Street profits depend on war, condemns Communism, and portrays pacifists and dissenters as threats to imperial capitalism while praising antiwar resolve among some labor and political groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn A. B
Gale
Noro
Rome
United States
Mexico
Capitalism's threat to free thought and the slacker menace
The piece argues capitalism punishes independent thinkers and conscientious objectors, detailing efforts to force fugitives back from Mexico. It condemns wartime profiteering and government coercion while labeling slacker figures as a danger to capitalist order and moral decay.
Predatory Wars and the Decline of Capitalism
The text argues that small capital has vanished into powerful combines across capitalist nations. It condemns World War I as a battle among giant states for global redivision of wealth, while workers bear the burden. It predicts capitalism’s rot and a coming Communist revolution, citing Russia’s October as first breach and noting rising Bolshevism in Western Europe, America, and beyond.
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Ormerly
America
Russia
Moe
England
Germany
Western
Europe
Austria
Norway
France
Italy
Communist Party
Spy Story Continued on Communist Inquiry expose
Narrative covers a Chicago conven tion session and Central Executive Committee meetings of the Communist Party in Ohio and Chicago. It questions informer claims about Pravda reports and recounts exoneration verdicts by party officials and their translators amid Socialist Party publicity attacks.
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Chicago
Ertentia
Communist Party
Ohiengo
Praina
Black Sheep Continuation On Duty And Message To Slaves
Fragmentary note continues a discussion about delivering a message to slaves and the duty to reveal or hide the message. The text hints at consequences and a plan to resolve the issue in the next week’s issue.
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Turin
Purvia
Novarra
Devima
Modena
Bolonga
Florence
Genoa
Rive
Truego
Parma
Piacenza
Socialist Party
Avanti
Obor
Seath
Armoi
National Connect
Milan
Borich
Italy i
Mt Clifford
Meridith Nicholson
Bourgoisie
Buenos Aires
Cleveland
South America
House
Senate
Senate Committee
Cincinnati Post
Post
T. C
Uncle Sam
Wilson
King George
Lloyd George
Cremenceau
Kaiser
Japan
Wall St
International Murder Trust
N. Bucharin
Berlin
Vienna
Pravna
Perston
Tate
Frainn
Bureau
Fraina
Haing
Ihe
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