Abstract
Autore:
Pes Alessandro
Titolo:
"Il lavoro italiano in colonia nel dibattito politico tra il 1946 e il 1949"
The article focuses on the
narratives used by the Italian political parties
towards the colonial question between
1946 and 1949. During the Second World
War Italy lost the control over the former
colonies in Africa: in fact Libya, Somalia,
and Eritrea went under British Military
Administration. Despite the Peace Treaty
bound Italy to give up the former colonies,
the Allies did not immediately decided the
administration of the former Italian colonies
and decided to put in charge the United Nations
to decide the forms of administration
of the former colonies themselves. The un
decisions came only in 1949 and 1950; in
the years between 1946 and 1949 the Italian
government and the Italian political parties
were involved in a propagandistic and
diplomatic struggle to achieve the right to
run the former colonies again. This struggle
involved most if not all the political parties;
both, the government and the political parties,
developed a propaganda towards the
colonial question. The article analyses one
of the main features of the political propaganda
towards the colonial question: that
is the recall of the work and effort spent by
the Italian colonizers. According to this propaganda
Italy had the right to run again the
former colonies. The article describes and
analyses the political discourse towards the
Italian colonizers and underlines how this
discourse was homogeneous among the political
parties till 1949.
