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M. R., “Gigi Damiani” (1954)

November 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

M. R., “Gigi Damiani,” Resistance 11 no. 4 (February, 1954): 5-6. Gigi Damiani Gigi Damiani, one of the outstanding men of the anarchist movement, died in Rome, Italy, November 16, 1953, at the age of 77. The death of Comrade Damiani is a loss which will be felt throughout the Italian anarchist movement, for he was one of its most outstanding thinkers and writers, especially in the field of journalism, And the loss will be felt in many other countries where his varied writings appeared from time to time in anarchist periodicals, Although self-educated, Damiani was a keen interpreter […]

Gigi Damiani, “Jesus and Bonnot: A Christmas Tale” (FR/EN) (1927)

November 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The gray car is stopped alongside a ditch, at the edge of the woods (which of its nerves has tensed? — which of its arteries has clogged, refusing the vital rush to its heart?) and under the car a young man crawls, thrashes, swears. On the road, his footsteps silent on the carpet of yellowed leaves (for we are in autumn, the sad autumn of all things!) He approaches. He is a blond vagabond, his long hair unkempt, his beard parted at the chin.

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