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Per un governo di pace e di liberta in Italia! [For a Government of Peace and Liberty in Italy!] [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, 1942.
"Appeal of the Italian National Front at the Underground Conference in Milan, December, 1942." L'Unità del Popolo was the Italian-language newspaper of the Communist Party U.S.A.
Mussolineide: poema antifascista e di rivendicazione sociale [The Mussoliniad: An antifacist Poem of Social Demands]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]
This anonymous work, an elegantly written and substantial (nearly 300 pages) mock-epic in terza rima of sixteen cantos, is of course about the life and work of Mussolini. It bears signs of perhaps more communist than either socialist or anarchist…
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…
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 Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere. Boston, 1940-1946.
Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…
La Controcorrente: organo d'agitazione e di battaglia contro il fascismo /The Countercurrent: against all fascism everywhere, Vol. 3, No. 3. Boston, April-May 1941.
Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…
Ad Antonio Fierro: spento da piombo fascista [For Antonio Fierro: killed by a fascist bullet]. New York: [n.p.], [1933].
This leaflet contains a poem by the Italian-American labor poet Crivello dedicated to the assassinated Italian immigrant activist Fierro, with a portrait. Fierro had been killed by Frank Moffer (real name Moddifori) during a clash in Astoria, Queens,…
America! America!: atti e memorie del popolo [America! America! Acts and Memoirs of the People]. Casalvelino Scalo [Salerno]: Ed. Giuseppe Galzerano, 1979 [1981].
Antonio Margariti (b. Ferruzzano, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1891 – d. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 1981) published these memoirs in 1979 at age 87. This "savage and touching" book (Durante) awakened a vast interest, so much so as to be a finalist for…
Il banchetto dei cancri [The Banquet of the Evil Ones]. New York: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1925.
This is a collection of anti-fascist articles Borghi had published in the then New York-based Il Proletario about Matteotti’s assassination by Mussolini’s blackshirts. It is introduced by his preface written from Paris in June 1925. Both the…
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…
Mussolini Red and Black. New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938.
For a full description of this work and its significance, see the description of it in the entry for the 1927 edition (published in New York) of Mussolini in camicia, q.v. It took 11 years for Borghi's work to return in translation to New York, where…
Mischia sociale (da . . . alla Cooper Union) [Social Brawl (from . . . at Cooper Union)]. Brooklyn: Edizioni sociali, [1930].
An excerpt from this work is published in Durante. On April 6, 1930, in a public debate at Cooper Union in New York, Borghi participated in the debate on the theme "I problemi della rivoluzione italiana dopo l'abbattimento del fascismo" (the problems…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. New York: Edizioni Libertarie, 1927.
Armando Borghi’s unflattering biography of Mussolini, Mussolini in camicia, was too dangerous (to author, publisher or printer) to be released in Italy: soon after Mussolini’s rise to power in 1922, publishing a work criticizing him or the Fascist…
Mussolini in zijn hemd [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Amsterdam: N.V. De Arbeiderspers, [1933].
Anyone wondering why the collection would include a book printed in Dutch will want to consult the main entry for the first Italian publication, in New York, of Armando Borghi's Mussolini in camicia.This is the Dutch translation of that work: shortly…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1961.
See the lengthy history of this work in the description of the 1927 Edizione Libertarie edition published in Italian in New York in order to understand where this edition fits into that history.Borghi's work continued its popularity in Italy, some 16…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Bologna: Mammolo Zamboni, 1947.
See the lengthy history of this work in the description of the 1927 Edizione Libertarie edition published in Italian in New York in order to understand where this edition fits into that history.Borghi's work was only published in Italy (of course, in…
Quaderni italiani [Italian Notebooks]. New York, 1942-1944.
Other editors include Renato Poggioli and Enzo Taglicozzo (Silvio Carli); the collection has Vol. 3 in two formats, one like other numbers, and an odd one smaller than the others.The collection includes: Quaderni italiani, Vol. 1 - Gennaio [January]…
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…
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…
L'attentato a Mussolini ovvero Il segreto di Pulcinella [The Attempt on Mussolini: or the Secret of Pulcinella]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.
The premiere performance of this play opened at the Central Opera House, located at 205 East 67th Street in New York on Sunday, December 13, 1925. It was based on actual historical circumstances — namely, a staged attentato, or attempt (to…
Il Martello [The Hammer]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1918-1943.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 9. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Marzo [March] 1921.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 24. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Luglio [July] 1921.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…