Francesco Giovanni Fantin was an Italian anarchist who migrated to Australia in 1924. Less than twenty years later, in November 1942, he was murdered by a fellow detainee in Interment Camp 14A, Loveday, South Australia. Born in 1901 in the small town of San Vito in Northern Italy, Francesco Fantins […]
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New Introduction Tommy Lawson, March 2022 The following is the first English translation of the entirety of “COPEI”, an internal strategy document of the clandestine Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) written in 1972. COPEI is a significant document for a number of reasons. Firstly, as the organisation that articulated the strategy […]
Author’s Note: A number of years ago I chanced upon a pamphlet, The Federación Anarquista Uruguaya; Crisis, Armed Struggle and Dictatorship 1967-1985, compiled by Paul Sharkey, at an anarchist bookfair. The contents were fairly interesting. Presented was an anecdotal, inconsistent history of an anarchist organisation in a small South American […]