The reconstruction of the archive of Edizioni Monte Bove continues. We are glad to communicate the reprint of the book I Giustizieri – Propaganda del fatto e attentati anarchici di fine Ottocento by Gino Vatteroni.
Following raids on 11th November, computers were seized and layout programs and original files were lost, so what we are presenting here is not a second edition, but the exact reprint of the book of 2018. 10 euros per copy, 6 euros for distributors.
Here is a short presentation:
From Giovanni Passannante to Gaetano Bresci, twenty years of vengeance, individual and class vengeance. Not just a chronological and encyclopaedical collection of anarchist attacks on the lives of the tyrants, which terrorized governments at the end of the nineteenth century, but also a necessary analysis of the economic, social and political context in Italy after the unification, also looking at what happened in France in 1894. A war arms in hand declared by a minority of the exploited on the liberal State.
The same State that had no scruples in torturing, imprisoning, confining, bombing and above all defending a society where millions of peasants were living below conditions of survival and in metropolises workers were literally consumed by the nascent capitalist machine. Well before fascism, the so much glorified Unity of Italy was founded on the blood of the majority of the population. Exploitation till death, cruel repression, are not only the exclusive prerogatives of a totalitarian State or of an exceptional phase in political life, but are the foundation of this damned country and of all forms of government. We would like this book to not remain on shelves taking on dust, a fetish to be collected in the pantheon of professional or amateur historians. We would like this book not to remain a dead letter. May the deeds of these fearless comrades continue to illuminate, with their example, the path of those who do not resign themselves to the present state of affairs.