The Manifesto of Ventotene
Altiero Spinelli & Ernesto Rossi, 1941
In 1941, the anti-Fascist activists Ernesto Rossi and Altiero Spinelli, placed under house arrest on the Italian island of Ventotene, draw up a manifesto for a free and united Europe.
The Montreux Declaration
World Movement for World Federal Government, 1947
During a meeting in Montreux on 23 August 1947, the World Movement for World Federal Government issued a Declaration on the role of world federalism as a political ideal.
The Federalist: A Political Review
Altiero Spinelli & Ernesto Rossi, 1941
In 1941, the anti-Fascist activists Ernesto Rossi and Altiero Spinelli, placed under house arrest on the Italian island of Ventotene, draw up a manifesto for a free and united Europe.
Federate or perish
John S. Hoyland, 1944
One of the main pieces to influence Spinelli and establish the Federalist Movement of the postwar era.
The Case for a Federal Union
W.B Curry, 1940
One of the main pieces to influence Spinelli and establish the Federalist Movement of the postwar era.
The Principle of Federation
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863
Federalism extended to civil society is Proudhon’s idea.
Should socialists support federal union? Report of a debate between Federal Union
Barbara Wootton, 1940
One of the main pieces to influence Spinelli and establish the Federalist Movement of the postwar era.