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Here is a short biography of Gusto Masetti who opposed colonial European encroachment in Africa (Libya) by shooting a commanding officer, and accidently a fellow soldier in the ranks. Rather than sentence Masetti to death, military court appointed psychiatrists declared him to be 'unbalanced' and 'irreducibly unfit for regular social coexistence and permanently dangerous to himself and others'. Subsequently, civil authorities applied various other psychiatric labels for which he was also incarcerated. He himself, at the time of the first offence, proclaimed, 'long live...

An article introducing the concepts anarchists have used to frame collaboration with other tendencies during struggle. Including the United Front, Popular Front, Workers Alliance and the Combative Tendency.

An essay on the relative influence exercised by the First International (the Spanish Regional Federation of the IWA), the Second International, French revolutionary syndicalism (the CGT and the Bourses du Travail), and Italian syndicalism (the USI), respectively, on the origin and development of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, with extensive discussion of the internal debates that took place between 1880 and 1920 in the European anarchist milieu on the general strike and the nature and purpose of trade unionism.