Angelo Tasca · L’Ordine Nuovo

Name: Angelo Tasca
Born: 19 November 1892, Moretta, Italy
Died: 3 March 1960, Paris
Aliases: Fantasio; A. Rossi; Amilcare Rossi (later pseudonym); a. t. (catalog signature mapping; shared review signature in I.20)
Position in 1919–1920: Socialist publicist; cofounder and contributor of L’Ordine Nuovo
Affiliations: Italian Socialist Party (1919–1920); Communist Party of Italy (cofounder, 1921; expelled 1929); earlier FIOM work (1912–1913)
Council delegate: unknown
Bio: Tasca helped found L’Ordine Nuovo in 1919 after years of activism in Turin’s socialist movement. In the council debates of 1919–1920 he emphasized the continuing role of trade unions, developing a disagreement with Gramsci. He joined the new Communist Party of Italy in 1921 and worked on its labor and trade-union policy. During the mid-1920s he participated in debates over party strategy and developments in the Soviet leadership.
Articles: 34
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
Brief records / quotations: 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes: Moved to France in 1927; his later political affiliations should not be read back into 1919–1920. The 6 September 1919 Cronache names Tasca and Togliatti as close editorial collaborators and states that both are now free of military service and can be identified publicly; no exact discharge date is given. Issue I.18 identifies him as the presenter of the resolution approved almost unanimously by the Turin Socialist Section on 5 September 1919, published as Un programma di lavoro. In his report of 18 October 1919, Tasca explicitly records membership of the Bologna congress motion-drafting commission, reproduces his proposal and explains his vote for the maximalist electionist motion despite objections to its council provisions. Issue I.26 reports his reply to Chignoli’s objections during the council discussion begun on 6 November at the Associazione generale degli operai; this is a report of participation, not a factory mandate. Issue I.28 names him in the proposed propaganda-school program for anarchism and the state, the Internationals, peasant and soldier councils, internationalism, and communist family relations. This announcement does not by itself establish that the lessons took place.

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