Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
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La donna e la famiglia: conferenza tenuta in Buenos Aires nel antico Teatro Iris, il 25 novembre 1900 [The Woman and the Family: lecture held in Buenos Aires in the old Teatro Iris, 25 November 1900]. Edizioni di propaganda Culmine: Buenos Aires, 1927.The founder (in 1925) and editor of the anarchist newspaper Culmine in Buenos Aires was an Italian anarchist named Severino Di Giovanni (b. 1901…
La peste religiosa [The Religious Plague]. La Libreria Rossa: New York, [n.d.].This anti-clerical tract by Johann Joseph Most (b. Augsburg (Bavaria) 1846 - d. Cincinatti, OH 1906) begins: "Among the many mental diseases that man…
Dibattito sulla "Esistenza di Dio" tra il Rev. Amedeo Santini e il Prof. Giuseppe Bertelli [Debate on the "Existence of God" between the Reverend Amedeo Santini and Professor Giuseppe Bertelli]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., 192-.Anti-clericalism was a parallel theme for the political theories and principles of socialists and anarchists. They rejected the Church and its…
Qualcuno guastò la festa [Someone ruined the holiday]. Brockton, MA: [n.p.], 1924.Who was Virginio Della Vesa? explain.
La produzione: Le sue basi-I suoi mezzi, Le sue funzioni, I suoi scopi [Production: its bases, its means, its functions, its scope]. Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1942.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,…
Le basi della societa e del diritto [The bases of society and of the law]. 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,…
La grande rivoluzione in marcia [The great revolution on the march]. 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,…
La figlia dell'anarchico: Dramma sociale in tre atti. Jessup, PA: Gruppo Autonomo, 1928.Becchetti was one of several women radicals who wrote plays to reflect their political views, including that of the emancipation of women. These plays…
Razzismo e Anarchismo
Memorie Autobiografiche [Autobiographical Memoirs]. Transl. by Luigi Galleani. New York: A. Salsedo, 1929.This is a translation from the French of the autobiography of Clement Duval, a French anarchist and thief, whose sentence upon conviction was commuted…
A Talk Between Two Workers. Oakland: Man!, 1933.This is the rare work in English in the collection (although I have a large number of works in English) because it is clearly a translation of a work…
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…
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…
Amici Italo-Americani! [Italian-American Friends!]. New York: Commissione Italiana del Comitato Statale di New York del Partito Comunista [April 1942]There is no printed date on this two-sided, all in Italian, handbill signed by Peter - sometimes "Pietro" - Cacchione, the first member of the New…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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