Expropriative anarchism
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Examples
Miguel Arcángel Roscigna and Andrés Vázquez Paredes, who had collaborated with Buenaventura Durruti and Los Solidarios when they were in Argentina, later executed a series of bombings against United States interests in response to the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. In this campaign, the notorious Italian expropriator Severino Di Giovanni joined in. Roscigna y Vázquez Paredes alongside Antonio Moretti and Vicente Moretti carried out a robbery on the Rawson Hospital of Buenos Aires in October, 1927, where they obtained the amount of 141.000 pesos. According to historian Oswaldo Bayer, Roscigna, with this money they financed the counterfeiting of Argentinian currency.[3]
The Moretti brothers and three
Groups such as Rewolucyjni Mściciele (Revolutionary Avengers) and Chernoe Znamia (The Black Banner), active at the beginning of the 20th century, used expropriation as a means to fund their activities.[7]
In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucio Urtubia, a Basque anarchist, robbed banks and assembled a forgery ring in Paris to fund the anti-Franco resistance in Spain. His most famous heist was a Traveller's cheque forgery scheme using First National Bank (now Citibank) checks to defraud them of millions of dollars. After his arrest, the French government negotiated on his behalf and convinced Citibank to settle out of court.[8]
References
- ^ El anarquismo expropiador El uso de la violencia en beneficio de la Idea by Federico Millenaar
- ^ Anarquismo expropiador en río de la Plata Published by Barricada,from Montevideo
- ^ a b Osvaldo Bayer, Los anarquistas expropiadores y otros ensayos. Booklet, Buenos Aires, 2008, p. 65.
- ^ "Se puede ver desde los testimonios de la época que, el accionar de los anarquistas y siguiendo la lógica de sus protagonistas, que la expropiación tenía claramente fines políticos. Existen testimonios de expropiadores y allegados a estos en donde se deja en claro que las condiciones de vida de estos no modificaron luego de las expropiaciones. No se enriquecieron en pocas palabras. Tampoco fue el caso de los grupos que posteriormente, y en otra coyuntura, se abocaron a esta tarea." Anarquismo expropiador en río de la Plata Published by Barricada, from Montevideo
- ^ Anarquismo en la Argentina Di Giovanni, el expropiador by Federico Millenaar
- ^ Osvaldo Bayer, Los anarquistas expropiadores y otros ensayos. Booklet, Buenos Aires, 2008, p. 69.
- ISBN 9788392666264.
- ^ "Lucio Urtubia, 1931–2020". jacobin.com. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
Bibliography
- Bayer, Osvaldo. Severino Di Giovanni, el idealista de la violencia. Booket, Buenos Aires, mayo de 2006. ISBN 9875800929
- Bayer Osvaldo, Los anarquistas expropiadores y otros ensayos. Booket, Buenos Aires, 2008.
- Bayer, Osvaldo. Severino Di Giovanni, el idealista de la violencia. Buenos Aires: Galerna, 1970.
- Noble, Cristina. Severino Di Giovanni, Pasión Anarquista. Buenos Aires: Ed. Capital Intellectual, 2006.