Article: Accidental death of an anarchist. (Belasco Theatre, New York)

The anarchist in question was a real one, a railway worker named Giuseppe Pinelli, and his death wasn't accidental. He was arrested in 1969 in Milan for a bank bombing that was actually the work of neo-Fascists. Then he was pushed from a fourth-floor window of police headquarters. I know all this because I once belonged to a concerned citizen's group called the Bakuninist Youth League, which took a serious interest in the Pinelli affair. Twenty-five Bakuninist Youths went to the United Nations one day to protest the cover-up and the further persecution of Pinelli's comrade, an innocent ballet dancer named Valpreda. We were met by a policeman who wanted to speak to our ...

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