The center of that
anarchist activity, if
anarchist activity can have a center, is the neighborhood known as Exarchia.
It would be of great interest to consider translations of other forms of cultural production, for example Pietro Gori's plays, which were also staged by non-Italian speaking
anarchists. Given this, one wonders if the world of the Italian subversives was as self-contained as it may appear from reading Bencivenni's book.
This period was a renaissance for the
anarchist movement and it is explained by the organisational work of Ugo Parrini and the new influx of
anarchists.
Almost a century before Foucault, Reclus criticised the use of science for policing and social control, inspired by authors like the Italian positivist Cesare Lombroso, who considered
anarchists 'born criminals' according to anthropometric measures of the day.
Paul Avrich's assessment of the role of the
anarchists during the Russian Revolution and Civil War has been more or less dominant ever since he published his classic work The Russian
Anarchists (1967).
Consequently,
anarchists may face a tradeoff between principles and saving lives--their enemies' as well as their own.
Animated by a common hatred for the newly established Italian state, the ex-queen and the
anarchists apparently conspired together to overthrow the Savoy monarchy, each thinking of using the other to further their own distinctive and diametrically opposed interests: the restoration of Bourbon power on the one side, and the establishment of anarchy on the other.
Immigrants Against the State examines the rise and fall of the American
anarchist movement, from the peak years of southern and eastern European immigration to the start of the Cold War.
Travis Tomchuck brings the
anarchist movement in Canada and the United States to life from a transnational perspective.
We need to look at what
anarchists have proposed in the past, and what modern
anarchist thinkers offer as a solution today.
The French
Anarchists in London, 1880-1914: Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation.
The incident happened in the Exarchia area of the capital, a neighborhood, well-known as a home for Greek
anarchists.