Cronaca Sovversiva
Cronaca Sovversiva (Subversive Chronicle) was an Italian-language, United States–based anarchist newspaper associated with Luigi Galleani from 1903 to 1920. It is one of the country's most significant anarchist periodicals.[1]
History
[edit]Prior to founding Cronaca Sovversiva, Luigi Galleani became involved in anarcho-communist activism beginning in the 1880s and showed a predilection for speaking and writing convincingly on the topic. After escaping an Italian prison sentence, he traveled through to Paterson, New Jersey, in 1901. After being wounded during the 1902 Paterson silk strike and charged with incitement to riot, he first escaped to Canada before settling in Barre, Vermont, under an assumed name among Italian quarriers. There he began publishing the Italian-language anarchist newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva in 1903.[2]
The newspaper was banned from Italy in October 1915,[3] and from the United States Mail in June 1917. He continued to print the newspaper and distribute it cross-country via Railway Express and a network of supporters who delivered it locally.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Falk, Candace, ed. (2008). Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Vol. 2: Making Speech Free, 1902–1909. University of Illinois Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-252-07543-8.
- ^ McCormick 2005, pp. 12–13.
- ^ Turcato, Davide (2017). "The Other Nation: The Places of the Italian Anarchist Press in the Usa". In Ferretti, Federico; Torre, Gerónimo Barrera de la; Ince, Anthony; Toro, Francisco (eds.). Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-315-30753-4.
- ^ McCormick 2005, p. 13.
Bibliography
[edit]- McCormick, Charles H. (2005). Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-3132-7. OCLC 60358652.
Further reading
[edit]- Avrich, Paul (1996). Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02604-6.
- Quinn, Adam (August 2018). "Chronicling Subversion: The Cronaca Sovversiva as Both Seditious Rag and Community Paper". Radical Americas. 3 (1). doi:10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.011. ISSN 2399-4606.
- Senta, Antonio (2019). Luigi Galleani: The Most Dangerous Anarchist in America. Translated by Asali, Andrea; Sayers, Sean. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-348-9.
External links
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Media related to Cronaca Sovversiva at Wikimedia Commons
- Archives in the Library of Congress
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