Subject: New Malatesta translations online
From: Revolt News <Revolt.News-AT-pmail.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:11:31 +0100


New Malatesta translations online
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchists/malatesta.html

Revolt is pleased to announce the addition of a page on 
Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta which as well as 
biographical information contains ten articles translated 
into English for the first time*.  They date from the 
optimism of the 1921 Factory Occupations when Malatesta 
writes "Now it is no longer a question of uprising to make 
propaganda; now we can win, and so we want to win, and only 
take such action when we think we can win" to the dark days 
of Fascism when Malatesta was under house arrest and thus 
forced to be careful with every word he wrote.  Then he 
warned "if today we cannot get rid of every kind of 
government, this is not a good reason for taking no 
interest in defending the few acquired liberties and 
fighting to gain more of those".

Above all else the articles deal with practical questions 
of organisation and the practice of revolution.  Davide 
Turcato, by translating them has made a useful contribution 
to today's anarchist movement.  All are now available on 
the web at
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchists/malatesta.html

Article list:-
The Revolutionary "Haste"
Further thoughts on the question of crime
Class struggle or Class hatred?
What is to be done?
Revolution in practice
Further thoughts on Revolution in practice
Editorial mail
Note to the article "Individualism and Anarchism" by Adams
The anarchists in the present time
Against the Constituent Assembly as against the 
dictatorship

* parts of these articles have been translated before and 
appeared in the Freedom Press publication by Vernon 
Richards "Malatesta: Life and Ideas"

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Translators intoduction

This page contains unabridged translations of some articles by Errico
Malatesta, written between 1920 and 1932, when Malatesta died, and
never translated before into English. These translations can be
regarded as a complement to the 24 articles contained in the book "The
Anarchist Revolution. Polemical Articles 1924-1931" (Freedom Press,
1995). The present collection witnesses Malatesta's intellectual
courage and open-mindedness, his non-conformism, even with respect to
ideas commonly assumed among anarchists, and his honesty in
acknowledging problems and seeking workable solution. We believe these
articles contain ideas and suggestions of great value for present
anarchists. Excerpts of these articles have been previously translated
in the book "Malatesta: Life and Ideas" (Freedom Press, 1993),
compiled and edited by Vernon Richards. In such cases, Richards'
excerpts have been used and integrated in the present translation.


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