Malatesta did not leave his theoretical vision of anarchism, as well as did not want to write his memoirs. The evolution of his thought and the meaning of his biographical path must therefore be reconstructed in the first place, through the great bulk of his writings for newspapers and propaganda pamphlets, interventions at conferences and meetings, the correspondence. Except for a few collections of papers and periodical pamphlets reprinting the most famous and popular, most of the texts of Malatesta are still poorly understood.
Two publishers libertarian, La Fiaccola and Zero in condotta, promote now publishing the complete works of Errico Malatesta.
This, we believe, is a project of great importance both for the meaning in itself and as an important opportunity for cooperation between publishing reality. A project that involves, at the same time, a major challenge in terms of economic and energy for which we ask for concrete support of all interested partners and companions.

In March 1897 Errico Malatesta arrives in Italy from exile in London to direct the Ancona weekly L’Agitazione. It begins a period of original drawing of ideas. In contrast to the wishful thinking insurgency isolation in which the anarchists had gradually fallen, Malatesta advocates a "long and patient work preparation and organization of the people "with whom anarchist socialism grow in the light of the sun as an organized movement that draws its strength from the workers' movement. From the columns of agitation, recognized organ of the current socialist anarchist in Italy, Malatesta stresses the importance of strength alloys; urges anarchists to be at the forefront in the struggles of workers, spreading the new tactics of direct action that have already been affirmed working in England and France, says the legal battle against the house arrest, claims the right of association of anti-parliamentary anarchist and reaffirms as a fundamental pillar of anarchism. The contribution of Malatesta agitation ended with his arrest in January 1898, after the bread riots broke in Ancona. The attitude of Malatesta in front of the judges is documented here with his interrogators and his unusual self-defense at the trial in April. Luigi Fabbri, companion, friend and biographer of Malatesta, define the magazine L’Agitazione as "the most important, historically and theoretically, including those drawn up by Malatesta."

Work Plan

Malatesta's works will be released every one or two volumes per year beginning in June 2011. The work plan provides a total of ten volumes that will collect, in chronological order, the articles published on Malatesta's Italian and foreign periodicals, all the propaganda pamphlets, correspondence and output indexes. The care of the works is entrusted to Davide Turcato, a scholar of the thought of Malatesta, to whom we owe the idea of completing the project that Luigi Fabbri began in the thirties, and the work of collection of texts.

1. "Who is poor is a slave": The period internationalist exile in South America, 1871-1888
2. "Let's go among the people": The Association of London and the years 1889-1897
3. "A long and patient work ...": The anarchist agitation Socialism, 1897-1898
4. "Towards Anarchism" Malatesta in America, 1899-1900
5. "Armed strike": The long exile of London 1900-1913
6. "It is revolution possible?": Volontà, la Settimana Rossa - the Red Week - and War, 1914-1918
7. "Proletarian United Front": The two-year red, Umanita' Nova and Fascism, 1919-1923
8. "Anarchism and viable filmmaker" Pensiero e Volontà, and later writings, 1924-1932
9. "What do anarchists": Brochures, programs, posters and other miscellaneous publications
10. "Your and anarchy ...": The Correspondence of Malatesta

The ten-volume edition of the Works will not follow the chronological order

• Each volume will be independent from the others and will include an introductory essay for the period under review, from time to time assigned to a different scholar.
• The output volume is not expected to strictly chronological order, but will follow the progress of the work.
• The volumes will be available in hardcover format. Discounts for groups and associations will be provided when ordering a certain amount of copies.

In June came the first volume of the complete works dedicated to the collection of writings published on l'Agitazione of Ancona in the crucial period of 1897-1898.

WORK LONG AND PATIENT ...
The social anarchy of the Agitazione (1897-1898)

introductory essay by Roberto Giulianelli pp. 392 € 25.00

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