The Italian Mazzinian Association was founded in August 1943 as a clandestine organization. A.M.I. participated in the political and military conspiracy against Nazi-fascism and known to have tempered its young energies into action, helping to redeem Italy from twenty years of despotism culminating in a heinous and cruel war.

Many Italians then looked for a formula that could unite them in the reconstruction of their nation. Political parties often divide, but they do have a purpose and citizens must join them to substantiate them with their thoughts and works. However, political parties need to be influenced by currents of thought and actions that rise and act above and beyond them.

Among A.M.I promoters we have Nello Meoni, Ernesto Re, Achille Magni, Giuseppe Colombo, Giannetto Savorani, Antonio Bandini-Buti, Claudio Crescente who gave life to the Association in Milan for the study and dissemination of the Mazzinian thought. The promoters’ purpose was not to create a restricted cultural organization, “… but a large movement, promoted with the ardor of a mission, which makes the principles of virtues, social justice and political freedom, that in turn must inspire the new Young Italy, if it truly intends to redeem itself from shame, and rise once more, purified from the pain and fraternized by work, to avoid perishing again”.

A.M.I. welcomes everyone under its banner as it is not a political organization, but rather a forum from which one tries to better interpret and more actively spread the thought of Giuseppe Mazzini. In particular, the moral, political, social and economic problems:

Mazzinian socialism is propagated to rearrange a sense of solidarity and to spark a cultural rebirth. It firmly holds the People at its foundation as it views freedom as the means to which justice is the end.

In A.M.I. there are no favors to receive, honors to distribute, riches to share, but only duties to perform, and everyone can access them without prejudice whatsoever, so long as withholding a solid moral ethic. There is also mystical or ritual no secret: methods and intentions take place at the light of day.

Having solved the political-institutional problems, the Association works to ensure that the Italian Republic is substantiated in Mazzini’s ethics to achieve European unity that Mazzini long hoped for over a century ago with the creation of the New Europe Federation.

With the conviction that Italy’s problems (as well as Europe’s and the world’s problems all together) need, above all, ethic and education, A.M.I is capable of welcoming those who are eager to learn and understand in its school of thought.

The association is structured by a National Committee whose goal is to coordinate the peripheral action (Municipal Sections) and by a Regional Committee.

It has obtained the recognition as being an O.n.l.u.s. or NPO (non-profit organization) following Legislative Decree n. 460/1999.