Publisher: Pasquale Turano (until June 1941); Donato Lapenna.
LC Holdings: Bound volumes: v.6-7: 1927 Feb. 26-1928 Apr.; v. 7-10: 1928 May-1931 Dec. 26; v. 11-12: 1932 July 23-1933 July 1; v.13 ?; v. 14: 1935: Feb. 16; v.15 ?; v. 16: 1937 May 29-June 5; v. 17-18: 1938-1939; v. 19: 1940; v. 20: 1941; v. 20-39.
Microfilm:1949: Jan.8-1961: Dec.23.
Paul Avrich Collection (Rare Book and Special Collections Division) : v 44: 5 (March 20, 1965), 7, (April 3, 1965); v. 46: 14-15, (July 8-22, 1967); v. 47: 8, (April 13, 1968), 12 (June 8, 1968),15-18 (July 20-Aug. 31, 1968); v. 49: 1 (Jan. 3, 1970), 4 (March 28, 1970), v. 50: 1-4 (Jan. 30-April 24, 1971).
LC Location: Jefferson and Adams Buildings Reading Rooms. Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room.
Notes: L'Adunata dei Refrattari was the most important Italian American anarchist publication not only for its long duration (1922-1971), but also for the range of its international circulation. In 1920,
L'Adunata dei Refrattari formed a Committee for the Defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti with Carlo Tresca (see
Il Proletario, Illinois) and Aldino Felicani (see
Controcorrente, Massachusetts). It was first published as a fortnighly until 1923 when it became a weekly. Editors were Efisio Costantino Zonchello (1922-1925), an immigrant from Borore (Sardinia, Italy); Ilario Margarita (1927-1928), an immigrant from Castelrosso (Piedmont, Italy); and, Max Sartin, pseudonym for Raffaele Schiavina (1928-?), and immigrant from Ferrara (Emilia Romagna, Italy). The anti-organization and individualistic ideology that informed
L'Adunata isolated it from other Italian radical papers and movements. Other titles also in English:
Refractaries' Adunation, Jan. 13-Nov. 17, 1934;
Call of the Refractaries, Nov. 24, 1934-Apr. 24, 1971. Also available in Microfilm:
http://lccn.loc.gov/sn94091771.
Bibliographic Sources: Antonioli, Maurizio, et al.
Dizionario biografico degli anarchici italiani. Pisa: BFS, 2003-2004. Cannistraro, Philip and Gerald Meyer. The lost world of Italian American radicalism: politics, labor, and culture. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Giulietti, Fabrizio.
Dizionario biografico degli anarchici piemontesi. Casalvelino Scalo (Salerno): Galzerano, 2013. Hoerder, Dirk (ed.).
The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.