Vie Nuove was launched by the Communist Party in 1946 with the goal of informing the party members about recent developments. The first issue of
Vie Nuove appeared on 22 September 1946. Its founder was
Luigi Longo{{cite thesis|author=Guglielmo Perfetti|page=46|degree=PhD|title=Absolute beginners of the "Belpaese." Italian youth culture and the Communist Party in the years of the economic boom|year=2018|url=https://theses.gla.ac.uk/9132/ ==Editors-in-chief==