This is the last published article by Camillo Berneri, one of the most significant anarchist thinkers of the twentieth century, prior to his murder by Stalinists in Barcelona on 5 May 1937.
You describe Berneri as "one of the most significant anarchist thinkers of the twentieth century". Can you recommend anything in English that discusses and situates his thought?
Thanks for this comment. It's a good question. My sense is that he has been largley overlooked, but I'm going to check with a friend who has a much more comprehensive knowledge of anglophone anarchist writing than I do. In the meantime, Frank Mintz wrote a biographical preface to a collection of Berneri's writing that has been translated: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/camillo-berneri-frank-mintz-class-war-in-spain and Berneri is mentioned as one of the three key theoretical influences on the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici, an organisation I know nothing about, but whose positions are put across in this document: http://www.fdca.it/fdcaen/organization/theory/acqoc/index.htm Cheers, Danny.
Thank you! Look forward to reading the Mintz. I have actually read sections of the document from the (I believe platformist) FDCA you shared and did not notice (or wasn't looking for) the section on Berneri. I'll have to look at it again.
Freedom Press is publishing a collection of his writings:
https://freedompress.org.uk/product-tag/camillo-berneri/
And some of these were included in "Black Flag Anarchist Review" (Summer 2022):
https://blackflag.org.uk/
So some progress has been made in getting his writings better known in English
Yes it's a very welcome development!
You describe Berneri as "one of the most significant anarchist thinkers of the twentieth century". Can you recommend anything in English that discusses and situates his thought?
Thanks for this comment. It's a good question. My sense is that he has been largley overlooked, but I'm going to check with a friend who has a much more comprehensive knowledge of anglophone anarchist writing than I do. In the meantime, Frank Mintz wrote a biographical preface to a collection of Berneri's writing that has been translated: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/camillo-berneri-frank-mintz-class-war-in-spain and Berneri is mentioned as one of the three key theoretical influences on the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici, an organisation I know nothing about, but whose positions are put across in this document: http://www.fdca.it/fdcaen/organization/theory/acqoc/index.htm Cheers, Danny.
Thank you! Look forward to reading the Mintz. I have actually read sections of the document from the (I believe platformist) FDCA you shared and did not notice (or wasn't looking for) the section on Berneri. I'll have to look at it again.
Francesco Ferretti has written an interesting piece about Berneri - the first part discusses the question of his '(un)orthodoxy' as an anarchist: https://www.academia.edu/41603763/F_Ferretti_2020_Transnational_anarchism_against_fascisms_subaltern_geopolitics_and_spaces_of_exile_in_Camillo_Berneri_s_work_in_D_Featherstone_N_Copsey_and_K_Brasken_eds_Anti_Fascism_in_a_Global_Perspective_Routledge_pp_176_196
Thanks for this. Looks perfect.