Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].
Title
Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].
Description
The verso of the cover of this pamphlet states “(Tradotto dal supplemento de La Protesta di Buenos Aires)” (translated from the supplement of La Protesta of Buenos Aires). La Protesta is an Argentine anarchist newspaper still in publication.
The final paragraph of Fabbri’s essay ends with the statement, “Enough of dictatorship and tyranny; the revolution has finally come!”
Fabbri (b. Ancona, 1877; d. Montevideo, 1935) was a close comrade of Errico Malatesta, the godfather of Italian anarchism, in Ancona in Italy, and later became Malatesta's biographer. In fact, many of Carlo Tresca’s articles were reprints of anarchist writings and doctrines of Malatesta, Fabbri, and Pietro Gori.
Fabbri was briefly considered as a possible replacement for Tresca as editor of Il Martello: however, Fabbri lived in Montevideo, in Uruguay, at that time, and nothing came of the effort.
After suspensions of the newspaper due to poor finances, it resumed publication in 1934 with a new office and new infusion of cash, probably from the newest woman in Tresca's life, Margaret DeSilver. It was also starting at this time, whether coincidentally or not, that issues of Il Martello opened more in English than in Italian, as did the entire last page; that this change occurred at the same time that Tresca began drafting his autobiography in English (and that Il Progresso Italo Americano began a similar practice) is noteworthy, as Martino Marazzi points out, in the gradual “Americanization” of a man who remained resolutely Italian.
The final paragraph of Fabbri’s essay ends with the statement, “Enough of dictatorship and tyranny; the revolution has finally come!”
Fabbri (b. Ancona, 1877; d. Montevideo, 1935) was a close comrade of Errico Malatesta, the godfather of Italian anarchism, in Ancona in Italy, and later became Malatesta's biographer. In fact, many of Carlo Tresca’s articles were reprints of anarchist writings and doctrines of Malatesta, Fabbri, and Pietro Gori.
Fabbri was briefly considered as a possible replacement for Tresca as editor of Il Martello: however, Fabbri lived in Montevideo, in Uruguay, at that time, and nothing came of the effort.
After suspensions of the newspaper due to poor finances, it resumed publication in 1934 with a new office and new infusion of cash, probably from the newest woman in Tresca's life, Margaret DeSilver. It was also starting at this time, whether coincidentally or not, that issues of Il Martello opened more in English than in Italian, as did the entire last page; that this change occurred at the same time that Tresca began drafting his autobiography in English (and that Il Progresso Italo Americano began a similar practice) is noteworthy, as Martino Marazzi points out, in the gradual “Americanization” of a man who remained resolutely Italian.
Creator
Luigi Fabbri
Publisher
"ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc.
Date
[192-?]
Format
15 x 10cm; 37 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Luigi Fabbri, “Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 18, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/162.
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