Giovanni Roveda

Giovanni Roveda (4 June 1894 – 17 November 1962) was an Italian trade union leader, communist politician and anti-fascist activist.

[1][2] After the war, Roveda became a full-time trade union organiser, and in 1919, he was elected as the national secretary of the Italian Federation of Wood Workers.

The newspaper L'Ordine Nuovo was also founded in 1919, and Roveda was involved in an editorial capacity from the start.

He was released in March 1937, but re-arrested in April for failing to repent his views, and was imprisoned for the next few years at Ventotene, where he met many new and old comrades from the PCI.

While on temporary release, he evaded police, and with the help of Umberto Massola escaped to Milan, where he was involved in organising strikes.

In June, he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, and he subsequently served in the Italian Senate until 1958.

In 1955, FIOM was heavily defeated in internal elections for representation at FIAT, and Roveda took the blame, standing down from the post.