"The dominant figure in Italian trade unionism after the war was Giuseppe Di Vittorio. The son of a semi-literate farm labourer from Puglia, he became involved in anarcho-syndicalism at a very young age. A soldier in the First World War, wounded at Monte Zebio, he later met Gramsci and Togliatti's Turin group and became one of the leaders of the Communist Party, following its turbulent and tortuous history, from the head-to-head struggle of the 1930s, with all its anti-socialist sectarianism, to the Spanish Civil War, the Popular Front and the Resistance. Like the other leaders of the PCI, Di Vittorio moved during these years from maximalist positions to possibilist and reformist positions, but always maintaining a relationship with real society, with its needs and hopes, and always preserving that respect for man that Stalinism had completely erased."
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Giuseppe Di Vittorio
1892 – 1957
Giuseppe Di Vittorio (1892 – 1957), also known as Mario Nicoletti, was an Italian trade union leader and communist politician.
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