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This Happened — August 23: The Execution Of Sacco And Vanzetti

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Post date August 23, 2024

Updated August 23, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. Italian anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed on this day in 1927. Why were Sacco and Vanzetti executed? Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for the murder and robbery of a shoe factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. However, their guilt […]

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Anarchist Revival? Italy Risks Turning Alfredo Cospito Into A Martyr For A Lost Cause

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Post date February 3, 2023

Anarchist protesters in Rome in November Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/ZUMA

Until a few weeks ago, Alfredo Cospito was a faceless holdout from a largely forgotten movement serving a life sentence for two separate attacks in the name of anarchism. But now his hunger strike has become a rallying cry for anarchists across Europe following a series of attacks protesting his prison conditions.

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