Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida (11 April 1859 in Catania – 19 July 1920 in Aci Castello) was an Italian socialist politician and journalist from Sicily.

A little over twenty years, in 1880, he founded the political weekly Lo staffile (The Whip), whose very title reflects the polemic nature of its contents.

To feed the family and attend school, he practiced many trades: wine seller, salesman of sewing machines, a printer, and even playing the tuba in a band.

The Fascio’s rapid success as a combination of trade union and mutual benefit society led to the foundation of similar leagues in Palermo and many other Sicilian towns in the next two years.

[2] De Felice was actively engaged in setting up Fasci in the interior of Sicily and travelled extensively over the island.

Only 14 years old, she was "extraordinarily animated by the spirit of socialism, who spoke to the people with a fervour of a missionary, and because of her sex and age, she commanded the fascination of the masses.

At the Congress of the Fasci in Palermo on 21–22 May 1893 De Felice successfully represented the tendency for autonomy within the movement, and was elected a member of the new Central Committee.

[2] De Felice, counting on the anarchists, urged immediate insurrection if the government tried to dissolve the Fasci, the majority recognised the futility of barricades and favoured calm and prudence.

[5] In 1893 the upheaval of the Fasci turned into strikes which were violently repressed in January 1894, after Francesco Crispi had taken over government from Giovanni Giolitti.

His arrest was described in The New York Times as a "wise act", as De Felice's personal influence alone could have brought Catania to the verge of rebellion.

[2] As a result of serious revolutionary activity in Italy, the conservative government of Luigi Pelloux introduced, on 30 June 1899, a series of measures seriously restricting the freedom of the press and assembly, as well as introducing criminal offenses for various forms of political opposition, De Felice was among the socialist parliamentarians that opposed the decrees and obstructed by filibustering.

As such, he was sent to Paris in 1899 for the Dreyfus trial by Il Secolo newspaper from Milan and Avanti from Rome, while evading arrest for his actions in Parliament.

He saw the new land as essential to relieving southern Italy of the rising cost of bread which had caused riots in the south, and advocated a "war of revolution".

[18] He joined the Italian Reformist Socialist Party of Ivanoe Bonomi and Leonida Bissolati and supported Italy's participation in World War I on the side of the Triple Entente.