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they definitely weren’t. and when a child went to pick up a malfunctioning suitcase that had not gone off, he switched tactics (despite the association with a lover who wrote to emile armand, he was a married man with 4 children (whom all changed their last names after his execution), back to the printing presses he was most actively known for. too late for his fate, however...

same with most of those he rolled with. take the image of nicola recchi page 89 of paul avrichrich’s ‘sacco and vanzetti: the anarchist background,’ for example. in police custody they beat his hand into a stump.

by and large the italians of north and south america became pointedly incendiary upon state repression. in north america the galleanists started fighting back after a really free market where police noted ‘dagos’ trading a revolver. then came the red scare. their book clubs and social circles, their involvement in workers’s stikes had to be shut down. several tried to dodge this by forming a commune with some magongistas chihuahua.

1920 at the NYSE was the culmination of years of red scare and the desire to fight back under the threat of deportation. one has to remember, too, that in 1920 andrea salsedo mysteriously ‘fell’ from a high window of an ny police station, in custody. what buda (allegedly) did was a last ditch act of desperation.

these folks wanted to freely associate, and when cornered with the threat that that desire would be taken away, they bit back. and they bit back in a hopeless context that came back around to stoke the mass hysteria that was ww2’s huge purge of humans.