Caratteristiche dell’emigrazione antifascista in America latina. Il caso dei repubblicani che lottarono nei Caraibi e degli antifascisti della “Lega Sarda d’Azione ‘Sardegna Avanti’” di Avellaneda

Abstract

Following a brief excursus on the characteristics of the anti-fascist migration in Latin America, this essay proceeds to describe two particular cases. The first one has to do with two Sardinian anti-fascist figures, supporters of the Republican Party who migrated to Cuba in the 1920s: Ugo Mameli and Silvio Mastio. Mameli maintained relations with other Italian antifascist exiles, while Mastio made contacts with several refugees of the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party, participating in the unsuccessful expedition to Venezuela in 1931 against the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. On the other hand, the second case refers to the activities conducted by Sardinian anti-fascist groups operating in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in the surrounding area of the capital city, but mainly in the industrial area of Avellaneda, where a group of islanders, under the command of the communist Francesco Anfossi, started an antifascist association, based on ethnic grounds, named Lega Sarda d'Azione “Sardegna Avanti”, which operated between 1929 and 1930.