Luigi Galleani was an Italian insurrectionary anarchist and communist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations and violent attacks.
1919 police photograph of Galleani
Pietro Gori, one of Galleani's close collaborators in the Italian anarchist movement
Socialist politician Francesco Saverio Merlino, whose critique of anarchism provoked Galleani to write his book The End of Anarchism?
Galleanisti were the followers or supporters of Luigi Galleani, an Italian immigrant to the United States who operated as an insurrectionary anarchist in the US. The vast majority of Galleanisti or Ga
Luigi Galleani
…where he launched the radical newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva. He gained many dedicated followers among Italian American anarchists, known as the Galleanisti, who carried out a series of bombing attacks throughout the United States. For his involvement in the anti-war movement during World War I, he was…
The early 1900s bomb-making manual, La Salute è in voi, associated with the Galleanists, whose anonymous authors were suspected to be Luigi Galleani and chemist Ettore Molinari. The cover featured a woodcut of French anarchist Ravachol, in front of a guillotine, by Charles Maurin (1893).
Masthead of the Cronaca Sovversiva Italian-language American anarchist newspaper, in 1905
Abarno and Carbone of the "Bresci Circle" in court