Luigi Galleani

Luigi Galleani ( born August 12, 1861 in Vercelli in Piedmont, Italy, † November 4, 1931 in Caprigliola, Tuscany ) was a major figure of anarchism in the 20th century and an advocate of the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Galleani one of the representatives of the Communist anarchism or to the insurgent anarchists.

Life

Luigi Galleani was the son of a middle-class family. During his studies in Turin, he was an anarchist and, finally, the study broke prematurely. After a threat of arrest in Italy, he fled to France and had to leave France again after participating in a First - May Day demonstration. In Geneva Galleani took up his studies again, but was expelled after organizing a commemoration of the Haymarket Riot from Switzerland.

Back in Italy Luigi Galleani was arrested and detained in a prison on the island of Pantelleria off the coast of Sicily. After five years in prison he escaped to Egypt, where he escaped extradition by, he moved to London and then in 1901 in the United States. Galleani quickly became known in radical circles, where he propagated the violence as a revolutionary means. Since he was threatened with arrest in New Jersey for incitement to disobedience, he fled to Canada, where he was also recognized.

In Vermont Galleani in 1903, the Italian -language anarchist newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva ( " Subversive Chronicle "). For the newspaper also wrote Sacco and Vanzetti, until it was banned by the Sedition Act of 1918. It is formed a radical group Galleani that were known by the name Galleanists and were responsible for many attacks in the United States.

Galleani was deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919 to Italy, where he was forced into exile on an island on the Italian coast. After Mussolini's seizure of power Galleani able to return the Italian mainland, there was under constant police surveillance. He died in a village in Tuscany at the age of 70 of a heart attack.

Works

• Paul Sharkey, Barry Pateman (ed.): Anarchy Will Be: The Selected Writings of Luigi Galleani. AK Press, ISBN 1-904859-39-9