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- Collection: Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
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La crisi del socialismo [The Crisis of Socialism]. Chicago: Ed. a cura de "Il Proletario", 1922.
A text by anarcho-syndicalist Enrico Meledandri, with sections titled, translated here, “The Fate of Socialism,” “Inert Maximalism,” “Scientific Socialism,” and “Misery and Revolution.” Note that the same printer’s mark of the I.W.W. appears on the…
Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?]
That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and printed in Paris by an Italian printer, Tipografia Sociali, is testimony to the international nature of the anarchist movement.…
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…
Pensieri scelti per l'evoluzione del cervello per servirsene nelle discussioni pacifiche o in contradditorio [Selected Thoughts for the Evolution of the Brain for Use in Peaceful Discussions or in Debates]. New York: E. Catello, [1924].
The back cover contains an advertisement for Catello's bookstore, listing works that appear to be those of her publishing house, "le edizioni E. Catello", not merely books published by others that she has for sale in her bookstore. Included are many…
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…
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…
Sassate: prosa rimata al sugo di limone [Throwing Stones: prose rhymed in lemon sauce]. New York: Libreria Popolizio, [1952].
"Gavroche" (the name of the street urchin in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables) is a pseudonym that two Italian book dealers identify as Gigi Damiani. No other work of Damiani's in the Collection is poetry.The publisher's note is signed "G.P.", which is…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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),…
Se dovessi parlare agli elettori: ecco quanto direi loro [If I Had to Speak with the Electorate, Here is What I Would Tell Them]. East Boston: Gruppo Autonomo, [191-?]
Translation of work of French anarchist anti-electoral essay. Gruppo Autonomo was Galleani's violent anarchist cell that included Sacco & Vanzetti.French journalist, editor, theorist, novelist, educator, and campaigner, Jean Grave was one of the…
La tecnica industriale e la rivoluzione proletaria [Industrial Technique and the Proletarian Revolution]. Brooklyn: Libreria dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1922.
On the rear cover is a list of newspapers and magazines published by the I.W.W., in English, Italian and 7 other languages. Giuseppe Cannata succeeded Edmondo Rossoni in the Federazione Socialista Italiana and as editor of Il Proletario. The earlier…
La tattica sindacalista in America [Trade Union Tactics in America]. Brooklyn: Libreria dei Laboratori Industriali del Mondo, [1921].
Giuseppe Cannata succeeded Edmondo Rossoni in the Federazione Socialista Italiana and as editor of Il Proletario. He was also, along with Tresca, a founding member of AFANA, the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America.A list of all works in the…
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…
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…
Rivoluzione e controrivoluzione [Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Manifesto of the militants and the Reunited Anarchist Groups of North America]. Brooklyn: Comitato dei Gruppi Riuniti Galilei Club, 1944.
The Galilei Club was another chosen name for an anarchist group, reflecting the independence of its namesake (whose last name the group used, rather than the more familiar first name, Galileo), as well as his battles with the religious authorities.…
Che cosa e l'I.W.W.?: una candida dichiarazione dei suoi principii, scopi e metodi [What is the I.W.W.? A candid declaration of its principles, scope and methods]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della I.W.W., 1923.
This is the Italian language version, so stated, of an English language publication "What is the I.W.W.?" Translated by Mario De Ciampis from the English original. De Ciampis was the author of the authoritative short treatise on the history of…
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…
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…
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…
L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica [The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della Industrial Workers of the World, [c. 1922].
The English language original of this 1920 work remains in print in a fifth edition. It has been translated into 8 languages. This translation from the English-language original was intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
La vigilia: dramma in tre atti [On the Eve: drama in three acts]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1917.
La vigilia is the first Italian translation “by A.M.G.” — who would be known by readers to be Arturo M. Giovannitti — of Leopold Kampf’s popular play written in German, Am vorabend. The work was intended to serve as entertainment as well as for the…