Mario Alicata

Mario Alicata ( born May 9, 1918 in Reggio Calabria, † December 6, 1966 in Rome ) was an Italian politician (KPI ), author, journalist and literary and film critic.

Life

Alicata moved in 1925 with his parents to Palermo, 1933 finally to Rome. There he attended the liceo Tasso. In 1936 he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Rome. In 1940 he graduated from there his studies. In the same year Alicata had already joined the banned KPI. From 1940 to 1942 he was involved in the illegal Communist Party organization of Rome until he was arrested in December 1942. Alicata was released in August 1943. From 1943 to 1945 he took an active part in the Resistance. 1943/44, he was the chief editor of the central organ of the banned CPI, the newspaper L' Unità (engl. " The Unit "). Then took Alicata 1945, the editors of the party newspaper La Voce (Eng. "The Voice " ) in Naples.

At the Fifth Congress of the CPI in 1945 Alicata became the candidate of the Central Committee, on the VI. Congress elected a member of the Central Committee. He was also a member of Südkommission his party, as well as a member of the KPI management in Naples. He was also elected to the City Council in 1946. He developed in the early postwar period of great political activity for the Mezzogiorno. 1948 elected in the constituency Naples to deputies, Alicata was appointed in the same year, the KPI secretary of the Calabria region. From 1948, he led, together with Giovanni Amendola KPI weekly magazine La Voce del Mezzogiorno (engl. " The voice of the Mezzogiorno "). He was also a member of the Secretariat of the Comitato Nazionale per la del Mezzogiorno Rinascita (German " National Committee for the rebirth of the Mezzogiorno "). In 1953 he was elected mayor of the municipality of Melissa in Calabria. Between 1954 and 1956 he was editor in chief of Cronache meridionali (Eng. " Chronicles of the South" ). From 1955 to 1963 he headed the Cultural Commission of the KPI. On the Eighth Party Congress in December 1956, he was elected to the National leadership of the KPI. In March 1962 he was again chief editor of the newspaper L' Unità. 1963 Alicata was re-elected in the camera, this time for the electoral district of Siena. Since 1964, member of the Secretariat of the KPI, he was in 1966 elected to the Politburo.

As an author and publisher devoted to Alicata the labor movement and the Italian Südfrage. As a literary and film critic, he was mainly concerned with problems of realism in modern Italian literature and neorealism in Italian cinema.

Works (selection)

  • La Reforma della scuola. Editori Riuniti, Rome 1956.
  • La lezione di Agrigento. Editori Riuniti, Rome 1966.
  • La battaglia delle idee. Editori Riuniti, Rome 1968.
  • Scritti Letterari. Il Saggiatore, Milan 1968.
  • Intellettuali e azione politica. Editori Riuniti, Rome 1976.
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