A landmark achievement in documentary history.
This volume of the Complete Works of Errico Malatesta covers the five and a half years from when the weekly Volontà was founded in June 1913, through the end of 1918, when Malatesta was exiled in London. Included are articles on trade unionism, criticisms of individualism, the problems of reformism, and articles on science and determinism. After a flurry of conferences and rallies in early 1914, news of the revolutionary upheaval in Ancona, which started on June 7, spread, leading to another period of exile for Malatesta. In London he found himself mired in debates concerning WWI and antimilitarism within the anarchist movement.
As a whole, the complete works include four categories of writing devised from a cross-distinction between Malatesta's own writings and the writings of other people, and between published and unpublished writings. In addition to Malatesta's articles, this volume contains a considerable number of pieces by other people (summaries of speeches and interviews), both published and unpublished (police reports).
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Errico Malatesta (1853?1932) is a principal figure of Italian and international anarchism. His sixty-year militancy, much of it spent in exile or in prison, spanned the foundation of the anarchist movement in 1872 to the eve of the Spanish Revolution. He has written ?bestsellers? of anarchist literature, such as Between Peasants, Anarchy, and At the Café. However, his evolving anarchism?pragmatic, theoretically coherent, and as relevant today as it was a century ago?is best illustrated by the myriad of articles scattered in the anarchist press and collected for the first time in these Complete Works.
Davide Turcato is a historian of Italian anarchism and the author of Making Sense of Anarchism.
Andrea Asali is a writer and translator. Her first book is I Belong Only to Myself: The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli.
Maurizio Antonioli (1945?2023) was full professor of Modern history at the Università degli Studi of Milan, particularly focusing on the history of the labor movement and anarchism.