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- Collection: Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
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…
Verso il nulla creatore [Toward the Creative Nothing]. West NY, NJ: Spec. Ed Virginio De Martin, 1939.The cover and, such as it is, title page state “Special Edition Edited by Virginio De Martin | Publisher of "Supermen Literature," West New York, NJ…
Tolstoismo e anarchismo: rapporto presentato al Congresso Operaio Rivoluzionario Internazionale di Parigi dal Gruppo degli Studenti Socialisti Rivoluzionarii Internazionalisti di Parigi [Tolstoyism and anarchism: Report presented to the Revolutionary Working-Class International Congress of Paris of the Socialist Students Revolutionary International Group of Paris]. Barre: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1900?]The anarchists of Barre were a colorful group. Frequently on the run from the postal or other federal authorities for his publishing and anarchist…
Tears. New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943.Angelica Balabanoff (b. Ukraine 1878, d. Rome 1965) was a Russian Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist. She served as secretary of…
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…
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,…
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 &…
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…
Scienza e fede [Science and Faith]. Philadelphia: Social Printing Co., 1908.Barbato (b. 1856, Piana dei Greci, d. 1923, Milan) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist and politician, one of the national leaders of the Fasci…
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…
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.…
Monolandia: il paese dove la libertà fu sepolta [Monolandia: the Country where Liberty was Buried]. [Bronx]: [n.p.], [n.d.]Self-published; printed from typescript (and perfect bound) by the anarchist-individualist author, who lived in the U.S. illegally from 1924 until his…
Memorie di vita di tempeste sociali [Recollections of a Life in Social Storms]. Chicago: A cura del Comitato "Vittorio Buttis," 1940.The gorgeous cover art is by Fort Velona, one of the great graphic artists (see Sotto il segno del littorio, q.v.) and labor organizers active in…
Max Stirner: un refrattario [Max Stirner: a Recalcitrant]. East Boston: Biblioteca del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.Roudine wrote this work in his native French, and published it in a bi-weekly periodical in 1911 directed by Henri Fabre in Paris. Max Stirner…
Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].The verso of the cover of this pamphlet states “(Tradotto dal supplemento de La Protesta di Buenos Aires)” (translated from the supplement of La…
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,…
Lavoro e surmenage [Work and Burnout]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, [191-].Translated from French (Travail et surmenage); part of Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria, part of Galleani's group of Italian anarchists in…
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…
La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.Only two years before this 1944…
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…
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…
La società proletaria [Proletarian Society]. Brooklyn: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1910s.This is one of two works by Braida, and in the same period, published by the Libreria Ed. dei Lavoratori industriali del Mondo, i.e., the I.W.W, and…
La responsabilità e la solidarietà nella lotta operaia: rapporto letto alla "Freedom Discussion Group" il 5 dicembre 1899 [Responsibility and Solidarity in the Workers' Struggle: report read at the "Freedom Discussion Group," December 5, 1899]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, 1913.This short (21 pp.) report was written by German anarchist Max Nettlau and published by the book arm of L’Azione, a critical weekly of revolutionary…
La morale di Arlecchino [The Moral of Arlecchino]. Chicago: Tip. "La Parola", [n.d.]While not a play as such, this small pamphlet, first published in Treviso in 1898, tells the dramatic tale of the troubles of an oppressed,…
La guerra che viene [The War that is Coming]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.Deported to Italy from the U.S. with Galleani, Max Sartin, whose real name was Rafaelle Schiavina (b. San Carlo (Ferrara), Italy, April 8, 1894 – d.…