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- Collection: Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
Un appello agli Italiani [An Appeal to Italians]. [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, [1942.]Text is only in Italian, unlike the "Per un governo" which is otherwise a similar pamphlet issued by the Italian Communist Party, whose newspaper was…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part…
Il sistema rappresentativo e l'ideale [The Representative System and the Ideal]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1945.While published in Newark, this work was printed in France at the "Imprimerie Commerciale de la Tribune Républicaine, Saint-Étienne".For a fuller bio…
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…
L'attentato di Matteo Morral [The Attempt on Matteo Morral]. East Boston: Gruppo Autonomo, [1910?]This is the Italian-language version of a French anarchist's perspective on the Morral affair, an attempted assassination of the Spanish King Alfonso…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Le idee chiare destano le oscure [Clear Ideas Provoke Obscure Ones]. The Bronx: Bronx Italian American Press, [n.d.]A philosophical work analyzing the "problem" of anarchism, noting that it's not political or economic, but rather ethical, psychological and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…