However , the European revolution was not going to fall from the sky : it was necessary from the outset to “ lay the foundations of a movement capable of mobilising all the forces to give birth to the new body that will be the most grandiose and most innovative creation to have arisen in Europe for centuries , to constitute a solid federal state ”: the Movement for a Free and United Europe , to be built “ by propaganda and by action ” and by establishing “ agreements and links between the individual movements that are certainly being formed in the various countries ” - and the Manifesto would in fact be taken to the continent , in particular thanks to Ursula Hirschmann and Ada Rossi , and circulated by means of cyclostyled or typewritten versions among clandestine anti-fascist groups , even outside Italy , particularly in Switzerland among exiles from all over Europe , coming to inspire the Declaration of the European Resistance movements of July 1944 .
In the conclusion of the Manifesto this organisational vision is specified in a call to build a revolutionary party that would not follow the fickle movements of the masses , but would guide - even through a dictatorship - the construction of the new state , “ and around it the new true democracy ”. Here is a remnant of Spinelli ’ s Leninist training , which he himself will indicate in his memoirs as one of the errors of the Manifesto , as well as the optimism that made him imagine European unity as something that would be imminently realised , having failed to foresee that the continent ’ s destiny would instead be determined largely by the external pressures of the United States and the Soviet Union .
Formed as the Movimento Federalista Europeo [ European Federalist Movement ] in Milan in 1943 on Spinelli ’ s initiative , the European federalists would continue to speak of revolution even