The Complete Works of Malatesta Vol. III

"A Long and Patient Work": The Anarchist Socialism of L'Agitazione, 1897–98

Errico Malatesta, Davide Turcato, Paul Sharkey

• Publisher: AK Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781849352581
• eBook ISBN: 9781849352598
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Anarchism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The first in AK Press's ten-volume Complete Works of Malatesta. This one (volume three chronologically) focuses on two very important years in Errico Malatesta's life, when he returned to Italy to edit L'Agitazione. This volume begins the series with a bang.

Table of contents

• Complete works of Errico Malatesta
• "A Long and Patient Work..."
• Editor’s Foreword
• Introductory essay: Malatesta, Anarchist Socialism, L’Agitazione, and the Bread Riots
• SECTION I: Anarchism and Parliamentarism
• Socialists and Elections: A Letter from E. Malatesta
• Our Program
• “For Candia”
• Anarchy and Parliamentarism (Reply to Saverio Merlino)
• On the Subject of Candia
• On the Road to Damascus
• From London. For the Record124
• Protest Candidates
• The Italian Socialist Party’s Election Manifesto
• Regarding Arton
• The Socialists’ Setbacks
• Monarchy and Republic
• They Are Scared of Winning
• Endorsements for the Abstentionist Manifesto
• The Election Results
• From a Matter of Tactics to a Matter of Principles
• Filth
• Endorsements for the Abstentionist Manifesto
• SECTION II: Underground in Ancona
• Point of Honor: To the Comrades
• The Judicial Crime in Barcelona
• Polemic
• First Impoundment. A Couple of Words to the Censors
• The Anarchists and the Eastern Question
• The 1st of May
• How to Get… What You Want
• Higher Education and Anarchy
• Second Impoundment. Let us Switch Program
• Trade Wars. Citrus Crisis in Sicily
• Individualism in Anarchism
• A Few Words to Bring the Controversy To An End [by Saverio Merlino]
• The War
• The Barcelona Trial
• More on Individualism
• Polemic
• Vultures
• Let Us Be of Good Cheer!
• The 1st of May
• Trifles
• Filth
• Resistance Societies
• Barcelona’s Calvary
• Echoes of the 1st of May
• A Congress of Italian Anarchists
• Trifles
• Impoundment
• The European War and the International Workers’ Organization
• The Socialist State
• Outrageous!
• [Untitled]
• Let’s Defend Ourselves
• For the Volunteers in Greece
• The Secret of the Electoral Tactic Unveiled
• Harmonism [by Enrico Insabato]
• Parliamentary Action and Popular Action
• The Fano… School
• Trifles
• Theoretical Aspirations and Practical Living
• [Untitled]
• The Duty of Resistance: Anarchists and the Law
• [Untitled]
• Trifles
• For Pietro Acciarito
• Organization
• Wages in Socialist Enterprises and Workers’ Organizations
• Filth
• Trifles
• The Fano School, Again
• List of Political Coatti
• From Letters and Postcards
• Political Struggle and Economic Struggle
• Trifles
• The Attempt on Félix Faure’s Life
• The Italian Socialist Congress in Switzerland
• Trifles
• The Constitutional Lie
• The Cipriani Candidacy
• Appeal to the “Streets”
• Suffering Souls
• Government Crimes
• Trifles
• Our Correspondence
• The Breaking Dawn
• The Cipriani Candidacy Again
• A Proposal… That Will Not Be Accepted: To the Socialist and Republican Deputies
• The Women Rice-Growers’ Trial: The Masters’ Revenge
• Trifles
• “Intolerance”
• For Freedom
• In Ancona229
• To the Friends of the Newspaper
• Priest, Policeman, and Master
• Suffrage and Civilization
• Trifles
• The State’s Dual Purpose
• Cipriani and Us
• Trifles
• L’Agitazione, anarchist-socialist news­paper. Circular. Ancona, July 21, 1897
• L’Agitazione, anarchist-socialist newspaper. Circular. Ancona, July 22, 1897
• Judiciary…
• Electoral Tactics
• Trifles
• To Our Correspondents
• SECTION III: Against Forced Residence and the Cost of Bread
• Against Forced Residence
• Collectivism, Communism, Socialist Democracy, and Anarchism
• Bad Faith
• How to Get What You Want: A Practical Example
• Trifles
• Cánovas Killed
• The Price of Bread
• Religion and the Social Question
• Reaction
• Trifles
• The Sovereign People
• Anarchism and Socialism: The Parliamentary Socialists’ Refrain
• Anarchy, Parliamentary Socialism and Republic [by S. C.]
• For Reconciliation [by Saverio Merlino]
• Political Murder: For the Sake of Logic
• A Fine Case of… Brass Cheek
• For and Against the Republic (To Ancona’s Lucifero)
• The Republic, Again
• Incitement to Commit Offenses: How the Judiciary Respects the Law [by Kristen Larsen]
• Trifles
• Struggle for Life
• Errico Malatesta in Italy
• For Concerted Action by the Progressive Parties [by “Some socialists”]
• Among Us: I. Reforms and Revolution
• Trifles
• In Ancona
• Impoundment and Arrest
• To the Republicans
• Bad Deeds of a “Sociologist”
• Trifles
• Rastignac and Panebianco
• The Republic, Again
• Against Forced Residence
• Impoundment
• The Decline of the Revolutionary Spirit and the Need for Resistance
• Priests and Masons
• And Again, the Republic
• Trifles
• “L’Agitazione” Semiweekly
• Phew! The Republicans Again
• Bad Methods
• The Evolution of Anarchism: An Interview with Errico Malatesta [by G. Ciancabilla]
• Anarchism in the Workers’ Movement
• For the Organization of the Printing Workers
• Trifles
• From Letters and Postcards
• The Carnage in Rome
• Anarchism’s Evolution (Apropos of an Interview)
• All Malcontents
• Under the Republic
• The Antipope’s Word
• The Housemaids
• From Letters and Postcards
• [Untitled]
• A Decisive Step by the German Democratic Socialist Party
• The Conspiracy Factory
• Under the Republic
• The Rantings of an Idiot (A Sample of Style)
• About a Misunderstanding
• Freemasonry, Again
• The Curators… of National Rhetoric
• In Discussion
• For the Sake of Truth
• The Experimental Anarchist Colonies
• A Gloss to the Polemic on Anarchism’s Evolution [by Pietro Gori]
• Jacobinism and Anarchism
• With Their Backs to the Wall
• The Chicago Murder: November 11, 1887
• Our Tactics
• Defending Parliamentarism
• SECTION IV: Into the Open
• A Prejudice
• Violent Means and the Democratic Socialists
• Publications
• In Ancona
• In Discussion
• [Untitled]
• In Discussion. More on Parliamentarism
• Stand Up, I Want to Sit
• Since That’s What They Want…
• The Crisis
• Are Mazzinians Turning into… Anarchists?
• Why We Fight Freemasonry
• To Our Friends, Correspondents, and Distributors
• Justice For All
• [Untitled]
• Trifles
• Anarchy as Against… What? (Reply to Merlino)
• [Untitled]
• Bad News
• True or False Disagreements (Between Anarchists)
• To Conclude [by Saverio Merlino]
• In Town. An Anarchist Talk by Errico Malatesta385
• Freedom of the Press
• A Mystification Ended
• Anarchist-Socialist Movement
• These Deputies!
• [Untitled]
• In Defense of Communism
• The English Engineers’ Strike
• Republican Prospects
• [Untitled]
• The Cipriani Candidacy
• To Saverio Merlino
• From Letters and Postcards
• SECTION V: Imprisonment and Trial
• Interrogation of the Accused [January 28, 1898]
• Interrogation of the Accused [March 4, 1898]
• Court Record [April 21–28, 1898]
• The Trial426
• Court of Ancona: Trial of Malatesta and Co.
• Enrico Malatesta, Common Coatto [by Observer]446
• A Letter From Errico Malatesta
• SECTION VI: Press Clippings
• How Anarchy Is Bred in Italy. Some Leaders of the Movement
• Chronology
• Index of Publications
• Index
• Copyright