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Anarchist brigades in the Italian Resistance

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342:. Action teams of the Libertarian Communist Federation operated on the Genoa-Arenzano route. Individually, Marcello Bianconi (a member of the CLN of Pontedecimo), Emilio Grassini (of the SAP "Errico Malatesta" formation who worked in Sestri, Cornigliano, Sampierdarena), Caviglia, Sardini, Pittaluga are still remembered for their contribution in the anti-fascist struggle. 359:, he returned to Italy and between 1921 and 1922 he organized support committees in favor of the two anarchists on trial in the US, which resulted to him being filled by the police. He then moved to the Marche and then to Rome where, in 1943, in the middle of the Resistance, he was captured by the Nazis due to a report and subsequently shot in Forte Bravetta. 312:
and the proletarian defense formations in Genoa was still recent. After 8 September 1943, the people of Genoa started to collect weapons abandoned by the Germans. September 11 can be considered as the starting date of the Resistance in the city of Genoa, when a German unit, informed of the presence
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including Maggi and his companions Vittorio Zecca and Giacomo Pittaluga. The anti-fascists surrounded the German unit and a fight began. The partisans managed to blow up the truck carrying the weapons but, although they were more than the Germans, they were worse armed and were therefore forced to
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was named after Enrico Zambonini, an anarchist partisan in contact with the Cervi brothers. Zambonini, captured together with Don Pasquino Borghi and other partisans, was sentenced to death by the Special Court of Reggio Emilia and shot. In front of the firing squad, as a sign of contempt and
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The rebellious and anti-fascist spirit of the population could not be different because already in the Spanish anti-Franco war 40 Apuans, two of whom were women, had participated with arms in hand against the Spanish fascists. And what about the heroic commander of the "Elio" formation (Elio
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Wochiecevich), whom General Francesco Sacchetti, in his capacity as a former soldier of the CLN of Carrara judged: "a fighter for freedom, with courage pushed to the point of recklessness, the Commander who knew how to instill enthusiasm, trust and devotion in his followers by example"
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district of Rome, Fantini was one of the organizers of the Resistance in the area. He was a militant of the socialist circle of Coppito in his youth and later he joined the anarchist movement active in the Aquila area. After emigrating to the US in 1910, where he met
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fought against the Nazis and Italian fascists. Among the fallen of the brigade were Dario Cagno, shot as co-responsible for the killing of the high ranking fascist Domenico Giardina, and Ilio Baroni, who Torino honored with a plaque, formerly a fighter in the
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retreat. Maggi took refuge inside the kiosk of a newsstand in Viale Canepa (on December 5, 2003, Maggi would suddenly die a few steps away from that newsstand that had saved him over half a century earlier). Maggi then became a militant of the SAP
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and are known for the number and importance of their military actions; Diolaiti is a particularly important figure as he organized and participated in the first partisan brigades of Imola, serving in the Garibaldi Brigade
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by Maurizio Maggiani, is one of the many anarchist groups on which historiography has given little information. According to Maggiani, not even the Nazis and Italian fascists managed to flush out the partisans of the
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formation, whose deputy commander, Giovanni Mariga, was awarded the gold medal for Military Valor, but rejected it for consistency with the anarchist ideology. Belgrade Pedrini was also involved in the brigade.
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brigades were led by Vincenzo Baldazzi, a friend of Aldo Eluisi, a shareholder but ideologically very close to the anarchist movement. The two, linked by an old and deep friendship, had been founders of the
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brigade of Genova Nervi, in which participated Lorenzo Parodi, who later, after a first experience in GAAP (Anarchist Action Proletarian Groups) became one of the most charismatic leaders of
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had among its protagonists the anarchist Eugenio Maggi of Sestri Ponente. Anti-fascist sentiments were alive in the city, just as the memory of the Defense of the Chamber of Labor by the
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anarchist brigade was founded by Silvano Fedi, together with Egisto and Minos Gori, Tito and Mario Eschini, and Tiziano Palandri. It was made up of 53 militiamen, who fought in
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already a few years before the Second World War had made a significant contribution to the anti-fascist struggle, with the participation of many anarchists in the
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defiance of his executioners, he shouted: "Long live Anarchy!". In the town square of Villa Minozzo, his town of origin, a plaque was placed in his memory.
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groups and in the liberation of captured comrades. After Fedi was captured in an ambush, he was replaced as leader by Enzo Capecchi. Fedi later received the
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Il sogno rivoluzionario di Silvano Fedi, comunista libertario, eroe della Resistenza pistoiese. Parla Artese Benesperi, suo amico e compagno di lotta.
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Mauro De Agostini, Franco Schirone, Per la rivoluzione sociale. Gli anarchici nella Resistenza a Milano (1943-1945), Zero in condotta, Milano, 2015.
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of an abandoned weapons depot in Andrea Costa street, rushed to take it but was intercepted by a team from
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forces, took part in the Resistance, whose preparations had already been going on since the previous year.
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brigade was the first resistance unit to enter liberated Pistoia, raising the red and black
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from the mountains, but only the carabinieri after the Liberation. Other groups were the
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The autonomous brigade Manrico Ducceschi, largely made up of anarchists, operated in
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The other formations in which the anarchists participated were mainly those of
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Per queste formazioni si veda, nel sito socialismo libertario.it, la nota su
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One of the first moments of revolt against the Nazis and Italian fascists in
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brigade, under the command of Antonio Dettori and an emanation of the
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on the bell tower of the cathedral, although it was replaced by a
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a well-known and militarily efficient anarchist formation the
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Resistenza italiana e rivoluzione - il sogno di Silvano Fedi
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La storia del Circolo Giustizia e Libertà di Roma da ANPI
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website clearly summarizes the situation in this area:
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in Piombino and who died during the insurrection in
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Index

anarchist
Italian Resistance
Second World War
central
northern Italy
Pistoia
Nazis
Italian fascists
partisan
Silver Medal of Military Valor
anarchist flag
tricolor
Lucca
Garfagnana
ANPI
Lunigiana
Lucetti Battalion
Milan
Bruzzi-Malatesta brigade
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Turin
Arditi del Popolo
Imola
Certosa
Bologna
Modena
Reggio Emilia
Liguria
Spanish Civil War
French internment camps

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