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- Collection: Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
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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…
Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.
In 1929 La Fraternelle in Paris published this, D'Andrea's first book of poetry, about her own personal anguish and social struggles, shortly after D'Andrea had entered the U.S. See Richiamo all'anarchia for her bio.Note, on the title page, that this…
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…
Unionismo industriale e Sindacalismo [Industrial and Trade Unions]. Brooklyn: Casa ed. Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1923.
The title page states Giantino as the author, with no publication date; however, this pamphlet begins with an introduction by Mario De Ciampis dated 1923. Like most unionist pamphlets, this pamphlet contains the preamble of the I.W.W., and also…
Unionismo industriale e trade-unionismo: può un socialista e industrialista far parte dell'A.F. of L.?: resoconto stenografico del contradittorio tra [Ettor] and [Caroti] tenutosi a New York il 26 Marzo 1911 [Industrial Unionism and Trade Unionism: Can a socialist and industrialist belong to the A[merican] F[ederation] of L[abor]? Stenographic account of the debate between Joseph J. Ettor and Arthur Caroti held in New York on the 26th of March 1911]. Chicago: I.W.W., [1911].
In the year following this “debate” between the revolutionary trade unions of the I.W.W. (and the Federazione) and the reformist A.F. of L., Joseph Ettor became one of the leaders of the Lawrence “Bread and Roses” strike of 1912. It was fateful that…
Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].
The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of I.W.W. members from 1917–1918 in the I.W.W.’s hometown of Chicago, in which a total of 820 years of…
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…
A proposito d'un regicidio?; Biblioteca "Questione Sociale" Nono Opuscolo [What About a Regicide? Library of "La Questione Sociale," Ninth Pamphlet]. Paterson: Tipo. De "El Despertar," 1900.
This work is of course about Gaetano Bresci, the Italian American silkworker in Paterson who travelled to Italy to assassinate Italian King Umberto, and succeeded in doing so on July 29, 1900. Published in the Biblioteca of the famous Paterson…
Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero [At the Café: Honest Conversations]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, [n.d.]
The Libreria Sociologica (Sociological Bookstore) in Paterson was both a publisher and a bookstore that stocked one of the richest and most varied assortments of inexpensive books and pamphlets for anarchists and socialists in the U.S. These include…
Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.
Stamp on front: "Libreria ed. ELVIRA CATELLO 1946 First Avenue, New York City|Manifattura di Calendari Artistici e Cartoline Illustrate| Catalogo a Richiesta [manufacturer of artistic calendars and illustrated postcards | catalogue on request]";…
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),…
Auto-difesa: pronunciata davanti al Tibunale di Mantova il 27 Ottobre 1909 [Self-Defense: pronounced before the Tribunal of Mantova, Oct. 27, 1909]. Bologna: Casa ed. "La Controcorrente", 1909.
Title page stamped "Liberia Editrice Elvira Catello, 1946 First Avenue, New York City," on this work published in Bologna. Bolognese herself, Maria Ryger (1885-1953) wrote often on syndicalist topics; another of her works was Il sindacalismo alla…
Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.
Gaetano Bresci was a weaver working in Paterson, NJ in the 1890s, part of the vibrant Italian anarchist community; he traveled to Italy planing to assassinate the king, and succeeded. His 1901 hanging while in prison for his crime was declared a…
Caduti per noi, caduti per voi: raccolta di poesie di Angelica Balabanoff [Fallen for Us, Fallen for You: a Collection of Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff]. New York: Edizioni "La Fiaccola," [1935].
Unlike Tears, this collection of Balabanoff's poetry contains only poetry in Italian. It is dedicated "To the victims of Fascism, to the Martyrs for Liberty," named in the prefatory remarks by "gli incaricati" (those in charge). The referenced…
Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.
Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th) collection of Gori's poems; it includes poems written in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,…
Carlo Marx e Bacunin in Spagna [Karl Marx and Bakunin in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.
Mikhail Bakunin (or "Bacunin" in Italian) was one of the leading theorists of anarchism, a contemporary of Marx who split from Marx after the first International. Bakunin was thus a hero to the early Italian anarchists, including Malatesta, Galleani,…
Che cosa è la religione? [What is Religion?]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1906.
Preface by Guido Podrecca. This atheist, anarchist tract by Ludovio Caminita, see other works by him in the Collection, the then editor of Paterson's La Questione Sociale, the anarchist newspaper. Caminita was soon afterward served with notice by the…
Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.
The cover has a variant (from the title page) of the title of the work, namely, Come i falchi: Scene dramattiche in due atti.Postiglione (b. 1893 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to…
Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.
This is an Italian-language translation from English by John La Duca of the address to the jurty by Socialist Party perenial Presidential candidate Eugene Debs on September 12, 1918.Note the compliance with a legal requirement of a representation…
Del delitto e delle pene nella società di domani [Of Crime and Punishment in the Society of Tomorrow]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [1930].
For a brief bio of Damiani, see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani and Malatesta, the fascist regime considered Damiani, always on the move although never in the U.S., as the leader of Italian anarchism.
Due conferenze: chi siamo e che cosa vogliamo: patria e religione [Two Lectures: Who We Are and What do We Want: Homeland and Religion]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.
Due conferenze includes two of D'Andrea's public speeches delivered during her lecture tours around the country - given in New York City on March 20, 1932 and (at Cooper Union) on January 6, 1929 - and published here in 1947 by the L’Adunata dei…
Efrem Bartoletti: Riflessioni poetiche [Efrem Bartoletti: Poetic Reflections]. Milano: Gastaldi Ed., 1955.
Issued in the series of ""Poeti d'oggi"" (Poets of Today). This copy of Bartoletti’s collection of poems is inscribed in the year of publication "in homage to the old friend and companion of more noble, truly democratic, ideals" in the mining town of…
Fecondità: commedia sociale in due atti [Fertility: Social Comedy in two acts]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1928.
This is a social comedic drama published by the book publication arm of the anarchist newspaper L’Adunata dei Refrattari. This 1928 publication is the earliest book in the Collection published by the newspaper which began life in 1922, founded by one…
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,…