Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals

La grande rivoluzione in marcia [The great revolution marching].Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.

Gold O’Bay was one of several pseudonyms used by Tintino Rasi (b. Genoa, 1893; d. Philadelphia, 1963). Rasi was an anarchist at an early age in Genoa, where he was under constant surveillance by the police for his political activities. In 1921, along…

Errico Malatesta: Bibliografia. Napoli: Edizioni RI, 1951.

Ugo Fedeli was one of Frank Brand's (Errico Arrigoni) comrades in a factory in Milan whom Arrigoni identifies as an anarchist-communist. He was a frequent contributor to Arrigoni's anarchist periodical, Eresia.Fedeli also wrote a biography of…

Lettera Aperta: al Diffamatore Ettore Patrizi, Direttore-Proprietario del giornale "L'Italia" di San Francisco, Cal. [Open Letter: to the defaming Ettore Patrizi, Director-Owner of the newspaper "L'Italia" of San Francisco, California]. Sacramento: 1911.

This is a broadside that calls itself an "open letter" that is a complaint by the "subversives of Sacramento, California" about an article in the prominente newspaper owned and directed by Ettore Patrizi in San Francisco, L'Italia. The article was…

Discorso radiofonico in Italiano sulla campagna elletorale: domenica, 23 ottobre [Radio Speech in Italian on the electoral campaign of Sunday, October 23]. The Bronx: Il Partito Comunista della Contea del Bronx, [1938].

Nunzio was the pseudonym of Mike Salerno, who edited L'Unita Operai, a Communist newspaper.It is curious to me that there was a Bronx County chapter of the Italian Communist Party in America, rather than just, say, a New York City chapter.Note that…

Archive of material related to the Buffalo section of the Federazione Socialista Italiana in the years 1919-1922.

This is a collection of approximately 30 letters and other documents (such as agendas for meetings ("Ordine del giorno," photograph here), a membership card, and the like) of the Buffalo section of the Federazione Socialista Italiana in the years…

Il lavoro attraente [Attractive Work]. Ginevra: Carlo Frigerio, Ed., 1938.

This is an edited version of an essay which had appeared first in the U.S., in the Italian-American anarchist paper L'Adunata dei Refrattari, edited by "Max Sartin" (Raffaele Schiavina) after he secretly returned to the U.S. following his deportation…

Orgoglio Funesto: dramma in tre atti del Prof. Angelo Ciccarelli; Qualcuno Guastò La Festa: dramma in un atto di Louis Marsolleau [Fatal Pride: drama in three acts of Prof. Angelo Ciccarelli; Someone Spoiled the Holiday, drama in one act of Louis Marsolleau]. Brooklyn: Libreria del Proletario/ Tip. International Press of Brooklyn, 1905.

From the cover, it appears that what unites these two different plays (by different playwrights) is that they both are of the "teatro sociale" [social theater]. There is nothing in Flamma, Schiavo or Durante about Professor Ciccarelli or his…

Primo Maggio 1886 e Primo Maggio 1956: segue la ristampa di due scritti di grande interesse: I Martiri di Chicago nella rievocazione storica di Luigi Galleani e di Pietro Gori [May Day 1886 and May Day 1956: followed by the reprinting of an American work of great interest, The Martyrs of Chicago in the Historical Retelling of Luigi Galleani and of Pietro Gori]. Torino: Tip. M. Appiano, 1956.

May Day was perhaps the single most important day of the anarchist and socialist year in the U.S. and elsewhere, celebrating the worker and the primacy of workers over capitalists. Years later, May Day celebrations were replaced by more sedate "Labor…

Giuseppe Ciancabilla. Imola: Galeati, 1965.

This work recites at the outset Ciancabilla's conversion from socialism to anarchism due to his interview of Errico Malatesta in 1897 for an article Ciancabilla was writing for Avanti!. About half of the 78 pages is about his time in the U.S.Author…

Insurrezione e rivoluzione [Insurrection and Revolution]. Detroit: Libreria Autonoma, 1932.

This work was issued in the series "Problemi Attuali [Current Problems]," unnumbered, which series also includes as no. 2 the same author's Il Bolscevismo: Che cosa è?; also, see Damiani's La bottega for same publisher, a bookstore, Libreria…

Scissione e nuovo schieramento nel campo sindacale mondiale [Split and new alliance in the world-wide syndicalist camp]. New York: American Federation of Labor, International Labor Relations Committee, 1949.

This 16-page pamphlet is a republication of a magazine article, that is, "Ripubblicato, in seguito a speciale autorizzazione, dal numero di gennaio 1949 de FOREIGN AFFAIRS, rivista americana trimestrale, 58 East 68th Street, New York [Republished,…

Militarismo e miseria: dramma in 3 atti [Militarism and Misery: drama in three acts]. Brooklyn: Tip. Guerriero, 1916.

The action of this anti-war play unfolds in a little town in northern Italy during the "giornate rosse [Red Days]" of June 1914. The play was presented for the first time at the Filodrammatica Sovversiva di New York [Subversive Amateur Dramatic…

Attorno ad una vita [About a Life]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.

This is a short biography by Damiani of Niccolò Converti , an anarchist writer who published, among other works, Repubblica ed anarchia (Tunisia, 1889), which Damiani mentions. Born in 1855 or, according to Damiani, 1858 in Cosenza (Calabria),…

Stato e comune [State and City]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1946.

Gigi Damiani (b. Rome, 1876; d. Rome, 1953) was an author well published in the U.S., but there is no evidence that he ever set foot in this country. Other than a few plays published in Detroit, and one in New York, the plays of Damiani were all…

Sprazzi di luce: pennelate di propaganda anticlericale. New York: [n.p.], 1940.

While the publisher is not listed, as such, the recto of the final leaf displays an advertisement for Il Proletario, published by the Federazione Socialista Italiana in New York. So it is possible, i fnot likely, that the federation also published…

Il Bolscevismo: Che cosa è? [Bolshevism: what is it?]. [Detroit: Libreria Autonoma,] 1940.

This work is in the series of this publisher known as Problemi Attuali [Current Problems] - Numero 2. The author, an anarchist editor, activist and polemicist, was known for his disputes with individualists. He contributed to many anarchist…

L'anima; Il diavolo e L'inferno [The Soul, the Devil and Hell]. New York: Casa ed. del Martello, 1924.

The preface by Carlo Tresca sets up the themes of the work: that believers think the soul is immortal, that there is an "eternal world" that he deems "horrible" in which believers are supposed to - according to his usual enemies, the priests - both…

Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio [Political and Literary Writings: gathered and ordered by Giovanni di Gregorio]. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921.

This compilation of the writings of Flavio Venanzi (b. Roma, 1882; d. New York, 1920) has a book cover design by sculptor Onorio Ruotolo (q.v.), a eulogy by Enrico Leone, and an introduction by Arturo Giovannitti (q.v.). Venanzi was Il Proletario’s…

Ultra! - teoria dei geni e dei gagliardi [Ultra! theory of the Geniuses and the Strong]. New York: Casa ed. "L'Innovazione", [n.d.]

Vella, an anarchist and Spanish Civil War veteran, briefly visited the US in 1923, where he was a contributor to Il Martello, and witness for the defense in Carlo Tresca's trial for sending obscene material through the mails. Arrested at a rally in…

Il processo muto di Sacramento, Cal. The Silent Trial of Sacramento, Cal. Brooklyn: Ed. a cura del Libreria del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [1919].

This "silent" trial was part of a "frame-up," as author Jacopo Tori says. Before the "famous bombing" of July 1916, the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco had collected a million dollars to fight organized labor in California. General strikes took…

Antinatale [AntiChristmas]. New York: Biblioteca "Novatore" No. 4, [1910].

Libero Tancredi was the journalistic pseudonym of Massimo Rocca (b. Torino 1884 - d. Salò 1973). This work dates from Rocca's youth, when he wrote for anarchist and syndicalist newspapers. However, by the beginning of 1920, he flirted with and then…

Sgraffi [Scratches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1946.

This collection of poetry is dedicated to those who have gone through the same struggles that Damiani had suffered.For a brief biography of Damiani, see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani and Malatesta, the fascist regime in Italy…

L'I.W.W.: la sua storia, struttura e metodi [The I.W.W.: its History, Structure and Methods]. Brooklyn: Libreria Ed. Del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [c. 1919].

Like Che cosa è l’I.W.W.?, this work and L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica of Justus Ebert three years later, in Chicago, q.v., are translations from English-language originals, intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…

Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari) [Giorgio and Silvio (dialogue between servicemen)]. Paterson: A cura della Libreria Sociologica, [1916].

This is a dramatic dialogue concluding with the two soldiers cheering for anarchy and calling for death to the oppressor.A dialogue between two people about political philosophy was a technique frequently employed by the left in works like this. See,…

Casa Savoia, Vol. II [House of Savoy, Vol. II]. East Boston: Ediz. de "L'Aurora", 1929.

A good example of the international nature of anarchism is reflected in the changing places of publishing of different volumes of the same work: Casa Savoia, Vol. I was published but in Buenos Aires in 1927, two years before the publication of this…

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