''Mondoperaio'' is an Italian cultural-political journal that is based in

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. The magazine has a socialist stance.

History and Overview

The magazine began on 4 December 1948 as ''Mondo Operaio'', on the initiative of the former

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and

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leader

Pietro Nenni Pietro Sandro Nenni (; 9 February 1891 – 1 January 1980) was an Italian socialist politician and statesman, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and senator for life since 1970. He was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Priz ...

. Constant presence among the political-cultural journals following

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, the review intends to intervene mainly on issues of

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. Become organ of the Italian Socialist Party and fortnightly in 1953, to adopt the same year a monthly edition, the journal was enriched with new themes that would find a place at the Socialist Congress in

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(1955) focused on the dialogue with

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. In the first issue of 1956

Francesco De Martino Francesco de Martino (31 May 1907 – 18 November 2002) was an Italian jurist, politician, lifetime senator (1991–2002) and former Vice President of the Council of Ministers. He was considered by many to be the conscience of the Italian Soci ...

became the co-editor (Pietro Nenni would be the

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until 1958) and, with the editorial ''Prospettive della politica socialista'', De Martino sets new tasks of the magazine, and until 1959 the magazine would focus on the issues of

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, the relationship between socialism and democracy, with the help of the then new young co-editor

Raniero Panzieri Raniero Panzieri (14 February 1921 – 9 October 1964) was an Italian politician, writer and Marxist theoretician, considered as the founder of operaismo. Biography Raniero Panzieri was born in Rome in 1921. He lived in Sicily and was active i ...

. It also enriched the themes of cultural interest and publishes texts of Balzac,

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, Blasco Ibáñez. A scientific-literary insert will be written by Carlo Muscetta and Carlo Castagnoli between March and December 1958. In 1959 Nenni passed leadership of the magazine to Francesco De Martino. In the pages of literature we find some critical emerging writers such as

Giorgio Bassani Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italians, Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where h ...

Franco Fortini Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes (10 September 1917 – 28 November 1994), an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, Literary criticism, literary critic and Marxism, Marxist intellectual. Life Franco Fortini was born in ...

, Joseph Petronio,

Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...

, Alberto Asor Rosa and others. In 1973 the new director was Federico Coen. journal hosts debates that innovate radically the Italian political culture: in 1975

Norberto Bobbio Norberto Bobbio (; 18 October 1909 – 9 January 2004) was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily '' La Stampa''. Bobbio was a social lib ...

criticized

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doctrine of the state; in 1976

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criticized

Gramscian Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a foun ...

doctrine of hegemony; in 1977

Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato (; born 13 May 1938) is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023, Amato became the country's earliest-servin ...

opened the discussion on the need for institutional reform. In 1985 Luciano Pellicani was the new director. In 1994 the magazine suspended its publications as a result of the dissolution of the PSI but in 1998, headed by the former Minister

Claudio Martelli Claudio Martelli (born 24 September 1943) is an Italian former politician and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the former Italian Socialist Party (PSI) newspaper ''Avanti!'' The right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the PSI leader and Prime M ...

, the journal was published by the SDI until 2000 with a new editorial, book format and identity, based on liberal and

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roots, with a look to

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. Among the signatures: Francesco Forte,

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, Luciano Cafagna,

Stefano Rodotà Stefano Rodotà (30 May 1933 – 23 June 2017) was an Italian jurist and politician. Early life Born in 1933 in Cosenza, to a middle-class family of Arbëreshë origin from San Benedetto Ullano, he attended Liceo classico Bernardino Telesio in ...

, Giuseppe Bedeschi, Luciano Pellicani,

Ruggero Guarini Ruggero (), the Italian equivalent of Roger, may refer to: *Roger I of Sicily, Ruggero I of Sicily (1031–1101) Norman king of Sicily *Ruggero J. Aldisert (1919–2014), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit *Ruggero ...

Ernesto Galli della Loggia Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

Giampiero Mughini Giampiero Mughini (born 16 April 1941) is an Italian essayist, journalist and television personality. Life and career Born in Catania, Mughini started his career founding in his hometown the leftist political and cultural magazine ''Giovane Cr ...

, Emanuele Macaluso,

Predrag Matvejević Predrag Matvejević (7 October 1932 – 2 February 2017) was a Bosnian and Croatian writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book ''Mediterranean: A ...

Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar, best known for his book '' The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992). In this work he argues th ...

, Arnaldo Colasanti, Attilio Scarpellini, Giuliano Cazzola,

Adriano Sofri Adriano Sofri (born 1 August 1942, Trieste) is an Italian former far-left politician, a journalist and a writer. He was convicted for ordering the assassination of Milan Police officer Luigi Calabresi in 1972. This was one of the most important ...

, Stefano Folli,

Paolo Franchi Paolo is a masculine given name, the Italian form of the name Paul. It may refer to: People Art * Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-American sculptor * Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter * Paolo Antonio Barbieri (1603–1649), Ital ...

, Ferdinando Imposimato, Anna Germoni, Federico Bugno, Piero Melograni. Luigi Covatta has been director since 2009. In 2019 the magazine was acquired by the Socialism Foundation; they placed Tommaso Nannicini and Cesare Pinelli as co-directors alongside Covatta. Among the current collaborators: Gennaro Acquaviva,

Salvo Andò Salvatore "Salvo" Andò (born 13 February 1945) is an Italian academic and politician. He was the minister of defence between 1992 and 1993. Early life and education Andò was born on 13 February 1945. A leading figure of the Italian Socialist P ...

, Alberto Benzoni, Daniela Brancati, Simona Colarizi, Biagio De Giovanni, Antonio Ghirelli, Walter Pedullà, Marco Tabili,

Giuseppe Tamburrano Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppa or Giuseppina. People with the given name include: :''Note ...

; Editorial Secretary is Dario Alberto Caprio and the editorial director is Roberto Biscardini.

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