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Umanità Nova: periodico libertario, Anno II, No. 7. Brooklyn, 21 Febbraio [February] 1925.
See description and history of this newspaper in the general entry for February - May 1925.
Umanità Nova: periodico libertario, Anno II, No. 9. Brooklyn, 28 Marzo [March] 1925.
See main entry for a description of this anarchist and libertarian journal, first published in Milan, though Errico Malatesta edited it from Rome, according to Enrico Arrigoni, from an interview by Paul Avrich, and then, when the fascists shut it…
Viva l'anarchia! [Hooray for Anarchy!] Newark: Cronaca Sovversiva, [1931].
Three-panel folded keepsake from the Cronaca Sovversiva, on heavy stock, enunciating the principles of how long anarchism will have to exist - so long as all the injustices of the world remain. Luigi Galleani was one of the anarchist movement’s most…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 12. Roma, 19 Marzo [March] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 14. Roma, 2 Aprile [April] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 2, No. 48. New York: Asino Publishing Co., 28 November 1909.
This 1909 issue is the only issue of L'Asino in the collection that was actually published in (as opposed to being distributed in) New York. To see the difference between the two: note "New York" and the date of publication in small type above the…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 6. Roma, 5 Febbraio [February] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
L'Asino: è il popolo, utile, paziente e bastonato [The Donkey: is, [like] the people, useful, patient and beaten], Anno 14, No. 7. Roma, 12 Febbraio [February] 1905.
For a full account of L'Asino as published in Rome, see general entry for the magazine from January 1905 - November 1905.As with all issues of L’Asino, this one features bright, full-color front and rear cover (and interior black-and-white) political…
1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione [1908 Almanac of the Revolution]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1907.
In the 62 pages of this work are essays by various writers. Of particular note at the end is a 4-page catalogue of other books published by the Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore as well as publisher, which was founded in 1903 by noted anarchist Ninfa…
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…
Almanacco Sovversivo 1916 [Subversive Almanac 1916]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
After a 15-page almanac of historical events associated with each day of the year, there are essays by Luisa Migel, Pietro Gori, Joe Hill, and Clifford Howard. List of "opere" and "opuscoli" by anarchists are in the rear. Rear cover: "La Nostra…
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…
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…
Contro gli intrighi massonici nel campo rivoluzionario [Against Massonic Plots in the Revolutionary Battlefield]. Newark: I gruppi anarchici del antracite, 1939.
This is a collection of essays by Camillo Berneri and Armando Borghi. Berneri was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. Along with Carlo Rosselli and Mario Angeloni, he organized anti-fascist militiamen in…
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.
Errico Malatesta in 60 anni di lotte anarchiche: storia*critica*ricordi [Errico Malatesta in 60 Years of Anarchist Struggles: History, Criticism, Memories]. New York: Edizioni Sociali, 1933.
Preface by Sébastien Faure. 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…
Errico Malatesta. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1922].
Nettlau (b. Neuwaldegg [Vienna], 1865; d. Amsterdam, 1944) was a German anarchist - indeed, according to Paul Avrich, Nettlau was the foremost historian of anarchism - who met Malatesta in London, and remained friends for the rest of their lives.…
Faccia a faccia col nemico: cronache giudiziarie dell'anarchismo militante [Face to Face with the Enemy: Judicial chronicles of militant anarchism]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.
This text is a lengthy work containing fifteen articles and essays from (and printed by the book publishing arm of) the anarchist Cronaca Sovversiva, led by author Luigi Galleani, describing various bombings by militant anarchists and their trials…
Figure e figuri. Medaglioni [Characters and suspicious types. Sketches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1930.
The articles collected here were originally published in La Questione or Cronaca Sovversiva between 1901 and 1920. This is a collection of Galleani’s articles on various important movement characters, Italian and otherwise, published by the…
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,…
Gli anarchici e le alleanze: conferenza … tenuta a sera del 12 Gennaio 1927 alla "Rand School" sotto gli auspici del gruppi: Volontà e South Brooklyn (con appendice di Luigi Fabbri) [Anarchists and Alliances: a Lecture Given on the Evening of January 12, 1927 at the Rand School under the auspices of the groups: Will and South Brooklyn]. New York: Circolo operaio di cultura sociale di New York, [1927].
The publication of the trasncript of an evening's lecture or, more so, a debate between speakers at a public meeting was not an unusual event, especially on the left.The Rand School of Social Science, founded in 1906 by adherents of the Socialist…
Guardia Rossa: il terrore bianco in America [Red Guard: the white terror of America], No. 4. New York: A cura della Libreria Rossa, 1 Maggio [May] 1920.
This magazine by Carlo Tresca did not have a terribly long run, especially compared to his signature work, Il Martello, q.v. I do not know in what sense the "Red Guard" could have been considered a "white terror." (To say the obvious, Tresca, whose…
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 by "Max Sartin" (Raffaele Schiavina) after he secretly returned to the U.S. following his deportation…
Il vate etneo: conferenza tenuta a New York, in commemorazione di MARIO RAPISARDI, nell'Aula Magna del Normal College di Park Ave. sotto gli auspici del Circolo Italiano fra studentesse del medesimo Istituto [The Etnean Poet: lecture given in New York, in commemoration of MARIO RAPISARDI, in the Great Hall of the Normal College of Park Avenue under the auspices of the Circolo Italiano of the female students of that same Institute.] New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1914.
Preface by Matteo Teresi, on whom, see, in the collection, Con la patria nel cuore. La mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart. My propaganda among the immigrants] (Palermo: D’Antoni, 1925), and discussion there of Teresi's…