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“LONG LIVE ANARCHISM” AND ITS SOUTHERN DISCONTENT:
SOUTH-VERTING THE “TRANS-” OF RADICAL TRANSNATIONAL
KNOWLEDGE IN IL RISVEGLIO
“VIVA O ANARQUISMO” E A SUA DISSENSÃO SULISTA: SULVERTENDO O “TRANS-” DO CONHECIMENTO RADICAL
TRANSNACIONAL EM IL RISVEGLIO
Lara Palombo1
ABSTRACT:
This study proposes the re-orienting of the radical transnational politics
exchanged in the first anti-fascist and anarchist newspaper Il Risveglio, produced
in 1927 in Australia. It combines a critical analysis of its transnational and
translocal political imaginaries with an examination of the linkages of its “trans” of
gender, race, class and imperial relations to unsettle its responses to the historical,
Italian based southern discontent. It argues that its focus on the social question
and the predominance of northern-based responses to women’s equality and
the racialisation of migrants effaces and negates the lives of diaspora from the
southern regions. This negation also intersects with its support for the formation
of a white working class and negation of Indigenous sovereign ontologies and
epistemologies in the settler colony of Australia. This paper demonstrates that
the effacement of the southern discontent is re-configured across varied and
relational systems of radical diasporic knowledge.
KEYWORDS:
Anarchism, Southern Italy, Australia, Discontent, Diaspora.
RESUMO:
Este estudo propõe reorientar as posturas políticas, radicais e transnacionais,
compartilhadas através do primeiro jornal antifascista e anarquista Il Risveglio,
publicado em 1927 na Austrália. O presente trabalho combina uma análise
crítica dos seus imaginários políticos transnacionais e translocais, com uma
investigação sobre as conexões do seu prefixo “trans-”, referido a gênero, raça,
classe e relações imperiais, com as dissensões históricas baseadas no Sul da Itália.
Argumentamos que o foco de Il Risveglio na questão social e a predominância
de respostas norte-cêntricas a questões como igualdade para as mulheres e a
racialização dos migrantes, silencia e nega as trajetórias diaspóricas oriundas
das regiões meridionais da Itália. Esta negação também intersecta o apoio
à formação de uma classe trabalhadora branca e a negação de ontologias e
epistemologias de soberania indígena dentro do espaço colonial australiano. Este
trabalho demonstra que o silenciamento da dissensão sulista é reconfigurado
transversalmente através de vários sistemas relacionais de conhecimento radical
1 Doutora em Mídia, Música, Comunicação e Estudos Culturais (2015) pela Macquarie
University, Sydney, Austrália. Atualmente atua como Professora Colaboradora nessa
mesma instituição acadêmica.
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diaspórico.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE:
Anarquismo, Itália do Sul, Austrália, Dissensão, Diáspora.
G
uglielmo’s
unique
history Living The
Revolution (2010), on the
activism of radical Italian
migrant women in the US,
starts by recounting how these
diasporic
women
directly
or indirectly, have been part
of the upraising since the
unification and formation of
the Kingdom of Italy. It recalls
how the national uprising of
1892 was started by a group
of women in the southern city
of Palermo who were joined
by neighbouring collectives
and eventually formed the
“fascio
delle
lavoratrici”
(union of women workers)
with over 1,000 members.
This agitation and the violent
attempts to quash it, spread
over time from the South to the
North with industrial workers
joining peasants as they were
chanting “…Long Live Anarchy!
Long Live Social Revolution”
(GUGLIELMO, 2010, p.11).
Guglielmo however, is also clear
that these organized socialist
and anarchist eruptions arrived
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after years of Brigantaggio, a
form of guerrilla warfare that
erupted in the southern regions
of Calabria, Apulia, Molise,
Campania and Sicily after the
unification of Italy. Although
driven by varied social and
political concerns, they are
especially known for rejecting
the ruling of the Piedmontese
and working with peasants
in armed resistance against
the state and the new class
of landowners (GUGLIELMO,
2010, p.33). This historicizing of
the political ruptures within the
south that ground anarchism
and radical migrant women
in the US, partake in what I
would argue is the unfinishable
transnational imaginary of
diaspora that animates a Southverting to the heterogeneous
political/s of the south!
It is the south-verting of the
radical-political writing by way
of an unfinishable transnational
imaginary that is the focus of
this paper. I propose here a
critical re-orienting of a radical,
western transnational and
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diasporic politics exchanged
in the newspaper Il Risveglio
in 1927 in Australia. More
specifically due to limited
capacity to access all its
editions, I focus on the analysis
of the articles from 1 August
1927, that is translated and
investigated by state authorities
with the view to shutting down
the newspaper. This circulates
amongst
Italian-Australian
diaspora as part of establishing
international opposition to the
spread of Italian Fascism and
exposes of the violence of the
Regime. This newspaper as I
demonstrate is defined by way
of a prevalent transnational and
translocal anti-fascist political
imaginaries that seemingly
disrupt the legitimacy of fascism
and the coherence of capitalism
and sovereign governance by
the state, the family, religion,
nationalism, patriotism and
racial hatred. The newspaper’s
imaginary, however, remains
silent on the question of
women’s equality and grounds
its social question in ways
that continue the historical
effacement of the southern
discontent. The newspaper
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circulates a northern and insular
form of knowledge that effaces
Imperial and racial knowledge
that legitimates the white
possessiveness of the settler
state in Australia and negates
Indigenous sovereign struggles
and the racial embodiments
of southern Italian diaspora
(FABER, 2009, p.7; CRESCIANI,
1979).
The
concept
of
transnationalism that I apply
here is derived from the way
this newspaper is part of
global networks that exchange
anti-fascist and abstracted
radical and diasporic anarchist
thinking. The transnational
political imaginary produced by
its exchanges opens a focus on
what Hirsch and Van Der Walt
define as the “supranational
in
its
connections
and
multidirectional
flows
of
the ideas, people, finances”
across geopolitical spaces by
countering and going beyond
a politics oriented by national
and state sovereignty (2010,
p.xxxii). This also configures
a translocal diasporic politics
that localize anarchist political
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imaginary through a politics
of emotion that re-orient
diasporic communities against
the immorality of fascists
in Australia. This translocal
politics is also shown to
circulate a hate politics in
Australian that disrupts the
affective sentimentality of
nationalism, patriotism and
racial hatred. The transnational
political imaginary is derived
from known and unknown
male
radical
journalists,
social commentators, political
activists and philosophers
that were translated in Italian
and circulated by ways of
transnational networks that
moved
across
Australia,
Italy,
Switzerland,
United
Kingdom, United States, France,
Argentina, Egypt, Hungary to
name a few (CRESCIANI, 1979;
HIRSCH & VAN DER WALT
2010; FABER, 2009). These
supranational
movements
are oriented by the historical
criminalisation, illegality and
persecution of its exponents
including their forced exiles,
escapees but also their ongoing
travels,
diasporiticization,
international
collaborations
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and exchanges between organic
and non-organic transnational
and translocal formations
(KINNA
2012;
NEWMAN,
2015; BERMAN, 2017). These
are activists that counter the
historical criminalisation of
Communists and Anarchists
across geo-political spaces,
including the censoring of
Italian based and diasporic
press by Italian fascism and
Australian Government (TOSCO,
2002, p.226; PALOMBO, 2015).
They circulate what Berman
(2017) also calls a “critical
optic” that opposes and
works to destabilize modern
capitalism, fascism, and liberal
states governance and its
interdependence
to
other
sovereign institutions such
as the law and religion and
begins to consider women’s
emancipation.
In the second part of the
paper, taking a cue from Jessica
Berman’s (2017) recently posed the question if “the Trans
in Transnational is the Trans
in Transgender?” and combine
the initial focus on a whole encompassing category of trans-
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nationalism to the analysis of
the unfinishable combinatorial workings of the hyphenated prefix “trans-“ of gender,
race and nation (STRYKER e
CURRAH, 2014). As proposed
by transgender studies theorists Stryker, Currah and Moore (2008), these crossings and
movements open the whole
encompassing notions of transnationalism and translocalism
to the explicit relationality of
the linkages and intersectionalities of “trans-” that also resist
foreclosure by attachment to
any single suffix (RUNYON, n.d.;
STRYKER, CURRAH & MOORE,
2008, p.11). Following this thinking Pugliese also in the “Transmediterranean:
Diasporas,
Histories, Geopolitical spaces”
(2010) draws from the “figure
of trans” of transmediterrenean
to reject and unsettle the imperial and limiting conceptualisations of the histories, cultures
and politics of the Mediterranean. The “trans” is a figure that
for Pugliese signifies the power
of transversal movements that
cut across and problematizes
authorised borders and opens
up systems of relations bet-
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ween otherwise disparate subjects (p.12). Reconfigurations
of power through these crossings do not necessarily defy
policed borders but create the
possibility of alliances between
and across transmediterrenean communities in ways that
transform what remains violently in place. Borrowing from
the focus on the hyphenated
prefix of “trans-“, I combine the
analysis of transnational and
translocal knowledge with the
examination of the combinatorial workings of the “trans-” of
gender, race and Imperial relations. By opening up the analysis to the “trans-” linkages and
movements of Il Risveglio’s political imaginaries, this essay
re-orients the significance of its
radical, abstracted and non-dominant diasporic knowledge
and unsettles its grounding on
the effacement of the southern
discontent. These “trans-” relations demonstrate the predominance of a northern-based
response to women’s equality
that effaces southern women’s
concerns. It also problematizes
the ways its commitment to dismantle racial hatred, patriotism
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and nationalism re-configure
an insular imaginary that naturalizes hierarchies of nation,
race, whiteness and Imperialism that produce the dominance of a white working class and
negate Indigenous sovereign
ontologies and epistemologies.
This negation intersects with a
northern anarchist knowledge
that effaces of the raciality shaping diaspora from southern
regions of Italy in Australia. In
this sense, this paper demonstrates that the effacement of
the southern discontent is re-configured across the varied
and relational system of radical,
non-dominant diasporic knowledge.
Il Risveglio introduces
transnational news that works to align readers against the
failures of fascism. This was set
up as part of the Lega Anti-fascista that brought together 300
communists and anarchists, largely Italian-Australian diaspora
to oppose the spread of Italian
Fascism and expose the violence of the Regime. This is in fact
often named as the first antifascist publication in Australia with
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prevalent anarchist undertones
(FABER, 2009, p.7; CRESCIANI,
1979) that in line with its purposes, it was edited by Italian
born migrants Giovanni Antico, the secretary of the Italian
section of the Communist Party
of Australia and experienced
anarchist activists Francesco
Carmagnola and Isidor Bertazzon (CRESCIANI, 1979; FABER
2009, pp. 5-6; ABIUSO, 1991).
This newspaper is visibly publishing supranational anti-fascist news that is in opposition
to the fascist state and exposes
its hierarchical and oppressive
social and moral relations (NEWMAN, 2010; BAKUNIN, 1848
cited in BEIRNE, 1990, p. 7). In
the edition of the newspaper
held by Australian authorities,
from 1 August 1927, the editors
Carmagnola and Bertazzoni’s
writing introduce this news
with direct and accusatory headlines such as “The Kingdom of
Slavery”, “The Shamelessness
Continues” and “The Vile Fascist Lies” that orient diasporic
readers to the immorality attributed to the fascist state (IL
RISVEGLIO, 1//08/1927, p.3;
p.4). The articles signify the
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fascist state as running unscrupulous adventures, economic
failures, enslaving workers, political deception, persecution of
organized labour and killings of
leftist politicians and activists.
The transnational exchanges of anti-fascist news are also
re-shaped by a translocal diasporic imaginary. This imaginary is circulated within a
moral language that takes part
in what Ahmed (2004) calls a
politics of emotions. This politics orients and “align[s] individuals with communities – or
bodily space with social space”
through the very intensity of
emotional attachments” (2004,
p. 119). More directly, this affective orientation is especially important as it is part of building
a translocal diasporic response
to the ways the Italian consular
staff in 1927 is spreading fascism in Australia by resourcing
the establishment of various
fascist and pro-fascist diasporic
clubs and newspapers around
Australia (see PALOMBO, 2015;
CRESCIANI, 1980). So, this affective politics works to provoke and publicly ridicule the
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Italian authorities by adopting
a language that shames fascist
subjects and activities in Australia and orients diaspora to
distancing themselves from
immoral activities of the Regime in Italy and Australia, as
Bertazzon writes in the August
edition: “I propose to unmask
to the very bottom the famous
lies which the various lackeys
of the sanguinary Benito spread
among the blockhead priest followers and lurid shirts that is to
say Italian Colonial who are in
the large cities” (IL RISVEGLIO,
1/8/ 1927, p.5).
The intensity of this provocation continues with the
distribution of the first edition
at the Rinascenza in Sydney, a
space defined by Cresciani as
filo-fascist (CRESCIANI, 1980).
In this sense, it is also not surprising that these provocations
created a response from Italian
authorities in Australia and
their demand that the newspaper is shut down, a topic to
which I will return to later on.
So its anti-fascism is shaped by
a translocal imaginary that evokes a politics of emotion thatre-
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-orient diasporic communities
against the immorality of fascists in Australia.
The transnational Anarchist undertones of the newspaper varied in its modalities.
Cresciani sums up the prevalence of Anarchism throughout
Il Risveglio editions and argues
that it:
…did not leave any doubt
in the minds of its readers
the Editors’ intention. In the
second issue dated August
1927, Bertazzon clearly
stated that ‘to arrive at the
new order it is necessary to
devote all our physical and
intellectual forces in order
that the proletariat is well
prepared to surmount every
obstacle which may be in our
path…to triumphantly reach
our goat, that is Anarchy!
The third issue, printed after
the execution of Sacco and
Vanzetti, had spread across
its front page the heading
‘Long live Anarchy. By the
Anarchists they will be
avenged! (CRESCIANI, 1979).
The
transnational
anarchist
imaginary
poses
the
fundamentals
of the “social question” as
based on the creation of a
revolutionary
proletariat
against private ownership
and the reconstruction of the
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social partly by demolishing
the state as a form of
governance
(MALATESTA,
1922; MALATESTA, 2015;
CORRÉA, 2014; NEWMAN,
2012). It especially grounds
its opposition to institutions
such as the state but also the
law, which are described by
Errico Malatesta as part of
an interdependent system
of domination that includes
the economy, the political/
juridical/military
and
cultural ideological that in
this newspaper are shown to
support the racial-political of
the state (CORRÉA, 2014). For
Bakunin, the law, in particular,
is “the antithesis of human
freedom” and a protector
of
sovereign
institutions
(BAKUNIN, 1873 in BEIRNE,
1990, p.6-7; NEWMAN, 2015,
pp-38-39). This, for example,
participates in the international
protests to raise awareness
and support for Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who
stand accused of murder and
are sentenced to death after
being denied a retrial. This
is part of a range of articles
based on the legal proceedings
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that are exchanged across
North American and Western
European cities but also Tokyo,
São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,
Buenos Aires, and Johannesburg
and of course Sydney that
work to expose the crimes and
murders of law against Italian
anarchists (VANZETTI, 1927,
pp. 11-12; FABER, 2009, p.5;
FRANKFURTER, 1922).
A broader humanism of
anarchism has also circulated
by way of abstracted, western
and radical writing that has
oriented readers to a discussion
of freedom, equality, and
emancipation. Reflective essays
and extracts from known male
social
commentators
and
philosophers such as Bakunin’s
“La Menzogna di Dio” or “The
Lie of God” written in 1871,
thatpropose the emancipation
of individuals by way of refusal
to participate to name a few
in religious interference (IL
RISVEGLIO, 1/8/ 1927, p.2).
Similarly, the re-publishing of
the translated extract “Free
Love” written by social critic
and Zionist Max Simon Nordau
part of his book “Conventional
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Lies of Our Civilisation” (1883)
proposes to free love from
the oppressive confining of
the marriage institution (IL
RISVEGLIO, 1/8/1927, p. 10).
In this article, both women
and men are encouraged to
disentangle themselves from
marriages of convenience that
had been normalized by state,
religious and legal institutions.
In line with the anarchist
focus on ethical values, this
moralizes all those that want
to gain from these types of
marriages as calculative and
dishonest people and argues
that by comparison, female
prostitutes are performing
an honest economic form of
survival. Although this is not
stated in the articles, these
are re-imaginings of different
relations of power that propose
to free populations from state,
religious and legal interference
and restrictive moral values
are published at a time when
Fascism was also introducing
state surveillance in everyday
living of populations by posing
restrictions over marriages
and divorce, reproduction,
and familial relations. These
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are changes that the Vatican
also
supports
especially
after entering into a formal
agreement with Mussolini in
1929 (HECKERT & CLEMINSON,
2011, p. 3; PASSERINI, 1987).
I pose here on the question
of women’s equality. The
extract “Free Love” written
by social critic and Zionist
Max Simon Nordau is part of
the book “Conventional Lies
of Our Civilisation” (1883)
which proposes to free love
from the oppressive confining
of the marriage contract. This
extract, in fact, excludes the
section from the original text
that opposes gender equality.
Nordea’s writing supports the
social emancipation of marriage
but opposes women’s equality
as it postulates women as
inherently biologically inferior
and dependent on man’s
superior abilities. Arguably, this
opposition is partly omitted
from the newspaper due to the
growing transnational support
from anarchists for women’s
equality. A support that,
however, remains invisible in
Australian diasporic anarchist
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newspapers until 1930. This
newspaper, however, locks
women into generalist male
imaginaries of either oppression
or freedom that are grounded
upon a biological binarism
that sets up female and male
bodies as equally enslaved and
capable of free themselves from
the materialist social-economic
conditions and by so doing, as
noted by US radical diasporic
feminists, it ignores women and
maintains patriarchal relations
(MOYA, 2012; BENCIVENNI,
2011; GUGLIELMO, 2010). Its
analysis remains abstracted
and minimally responsive to the
historical question of radical
diasporic feminist thought
and concerns over the social
conditions of Italian-Australian
diaspora.
So far, the pairing of
an all-inclusive category of
transnationalism with gender
remains elusive on radical
feminist transnational politics.
It is here in fact, that I shift
focus to a critical analysis of the
combinatorial workings and
movements of the hyphenated
category of “trans-” of gender
and
diaspora
(STRIKER,
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CURRAH & MOORE, 2008) to
open this discussion to other
radical diasporic knowledge of
women’s inequalities. Following
Stryker, Currah and Moore this
analysis of the linkages of the
“trans-“ of gender demonstrate
how this crosses and unsettles
the naturalised masculinism
and biological binarism of
transnational radical diasporic
thought present in Il Risveglio.
In this sense, I define the
hyphenated:
… “Trans-”…[as] the capillary
space of connection and
circulation between the
macro- and micro-political
registers through which
the lives of bodies become
enmeshed in the lives of
nations, states, and capitalformations, while “-gender”
becomes one of the several
sets of variable techniques
or temporal practices (such
as race or class) through
which bodies are made to live
(2008, p.14).
The “trans-” relations of
gender connect to the radical
diasporic movement in the US
and its re-alignment of gender.
In fact, my starting point is the
article by the Italo-American
diaspora Celestino Lalli (1930)
“Religione, La Patria, La Famiglia e Gli Anarchici” which
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was published in La Riscossa
(1929-31), after the closure of Il
Risveglio. This article isalso re-published from the US-based
transnational anarchist and anti-fascist newspaper L’Adunata
Dei Refrettari (The Gathering of
the Disobedient). The analysis of
the movements and linkages of
the “trans-” relations of gender
within this writing demonstrate that diasporic feminism
combines its knowledge with
the social question and by so
doing produces a focus on the
social inequalities that shape
women’s lives. This combination unsettles the coherence of
the biologism of sexed categories that also circulated in Il Risveglio. As Lalli writes it is male
“tyranny” and violence within
the family, religious and state
interference, and economic dependence that shape women’s
lives:
We want the family to be
emancipated
from
any
prejudice and violence ...we
do not want marriage to be
contaminated by a deceitful
promise of love… we do not
want the woman to live under
the tyranny of man and of the
civil and ecclesiastical law…
We can achieve this when the
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economic conditions have
mutated so that the woman
can be elevated socially,
morally and intellectually at
the same level as the man (LA
RISCOSSA, 15/12/1930, p. 2).
This article is not-centring
its attacks on fascism. On
the contrary of Nordeau’s
article, the “trans-“ relations
of gender open to the ways
this writing combines freedom
with achieving both women’s
equality and the emancipation
of the traditional patriarchal
family. Although this does not
question directly the biological
binarism that differentiates
and inferiorize female bodies,
its seeking of freedom from
social institutions and male
tyranny begins to unsettle the
coherence of sexed categories.
So the move to the “trans”
relations of gender in La
Riscossa demonstrate how its
knowledge in the 1930 moves
to discuss a social revolution
that includes the dismantling of
women’s oppression.
The “trans-”ons of gender
of Lalli’s article connect to
L’Adunata Dei Refrettari (The
Gathering of the Disobedient)
(1922-1971) and US diasporic
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radical feminism. This circulates
in Australia and is in fact part
of a series of transnational
and more local US based
newspapers including the
earlier publication La Questione
Sociale (The Social Question
(1895-1908). Both newspapers
combined anarchist writing
on the social question with
diasporic anarchist feminist
calls for women’s emancipation
(GUGLIELMO, 2010, pp.224225). In the 1920s, in L’Adunata,
published feminist writing as
news stories, letters and essays
largely from unknown sources.
Guglielmo sums up diasporic
writing and feminist anarchists
called upon women in the
movement to freedom by:
… oppos[ing] fascism as
they would any systematic
pervasive form of domination.
A letter from one woman in
Philadelphia typified much of
the writing with her dramatic
call for women to refuse
acquiescence to patriarchy…A
distinctly anarchist feminist
perspective also infused
many essays that continued
to critique male comrades:
“men should know” wrote
another
woman,
“that
humanity cannot elevate itself
if women are not elevated
and that the emancipation
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of the proletariat cannot
move forward without the
emancipation of women
(GUGLIELMO, 2010, pp.224225).
The combinatorial workings of “trans-“ relations of
gender partly demonstrate
that Lalli’s evocation of male
“tyranny” and his demanding
of women’s equality in 1930 is
connecting with these diasporic
radical feminist concerns. What
is also accentuated, however,
is that Lalli’s writing connects
more clearly with the earlier
writing of the “sovversive” published in La Questione Sociale
from the 1890s. Lalli’s article in
effect evokes their feminist concerns with oppressive social institutions like the family structure, education and the hierarchy
of the Church. The “sovversive”
describe women as being inflicted by economic dependency
and by their exploitation within
capitalism and family violence. In this writing, there is an
outright rejection of biological
inferiority and the positing of
women as being forcibly and
socially deprived of intellectual pursuits by man. Maria
Rosa, for example, wrote that
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“sister-workers…men are… the
cause of our weakness, our underdeveloped intellect because
they restrict our instructions
and ignore us” (GUGLIELMO,
2010, p.156). Significantly, the
“trans-” relations of gender also
demonstrate that the sovversive
link to a movement that re-naturalizes biological binarism
by way of a maternal feminism
that re-defines motherhood,
not as a form of oppression, but
as a political site for raising women’s consciousness and enacting revolutionary education
with children (GUGLIELMO,
2010, pp.162-65; p.385; BENCIVENNI, p.89, 2011; CANNISTRARO & MEYER, 2003 p. 179).
The combinatorial workings of
the “trans-” of gender clearly
demonstrates that Lalli’s writing is shaped by a US-based
diasporic radical feminism that
extends the social question to
include the social construction
of femininity within anarchist
political imaginaries.
Lalli’s writing, however,
isalso oriented by an earlier
northern-based
diasporic
radical feminism of La Questione
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Sociale and seemingly a more
individualised
anti-fascist
radical feminism of the 1920s
of L’Adunata. The analysis of
the combinatorial workings
of “trans-” relations of gender,
show that the early diasporic
radical feminist writing from
Paterson in New Jersey shows
that this work gives visibility
to known and less known
views of activists who are often
identified as from the Northern
regions of Italy including
Maria Roda, Bellalma Forzato,
Ersilia Grandi, Alba, Ninfa
Baronio, Ernestina Cravello,
Maria Barbieri, Alba Genisio,
Titi, Virginia Buongiorno to
name a few (CANNISTRARO
& MEYER, 2003,
p.134;
GUGLIELMO, 2010, pp. 139140; BENCIVENNI, p.89, 2011).
Whilst it is unclear if all these
feminist writers were from
the Northern regions of Italy
and how they conceptualized
their shared northern origins,
their concentrated visibility
is partly due to the chain
migration of northern radical
activists in this specific area
of the US. (GUGLIELMO, 2010,
p.145). Yet, as it has been
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noted, in the US there is a high
presence of diasporic women
from the southern regions of
Italy and as noted by Guglielmo
(2010) the Sicilian anarchist
circle also actively pursued
women’s emancipation. So, this
early circulation of diasporic
feminist writing is one that
in the pursuit of the relation
between the social question
and gender, voluntarily or nonvoluntarily, effaces questions
from southern diasporic radical
feminist women. In the 1920s
however, in L’Adunata, there are
no clear traces of a prevalence
of northern writers. This is
published in New York where
there is no clear concentration
of northern Italian feminist
anarchist activists. But also
significantly, the background of
the diasporic radical feminist
writers
remains
largely
unmarked and individualised in
the newspaper. Thus, remaining
elusive on the southern
question.
What this analysis of
“trans-” relations alerts us
to is the effacement of the
southern radical diaspora
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in the transnational pursuit
of the social question. This
effacement, however, is not
exclusive to the diasporic
anarchist feminists of the 1890s
as this is connected to the
“trans-” relations of gender with
the social question itself and
the ways it is re-calibrated by
anarchist thought including by
the southern Italian Malatesta.
The Social Questionand the
L’Adunata, in fact, had close
bonds with Malatesta who
travelled in the US to escape
authorities and edited the Social
Question in 1898 (RICHARDS,
2015; GUGLIELMO, 2010;
CANNISTRARO & MEYER,
2003). As Toda demonstrates,
Malatesta who has lived under
the Bourbonic rule and seen
its falling, in the 1860s comes
to share spaces in Naples with
supporters of both Mazzini and
Bakunin. In short, Mazzinian
supporters were seeking to
create a republican federation
that opposed the Piedmont led
the Italian Kingdom by way
of class collaboration, whilst
Bakunian sympathizers were
arguing against the Church,
the centralized State and social
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privileges (…proletariat [as]
victims of capitalism) (TODA,
1988, pp.5-6). Malatesta who
is a supporter of Mazzini, also
recalls this period as marked by
his great opposition to Garibaldi
as one that did not liberate Italy
from the monarchy and that he
fought against Garibaldi also “as
a man from the South” (cited in
NETTLAU, 1924). In 1872, with
the support of Bakunin and
the Paris Commune, Malatesta
turns from republicanism to
anarchism and within few
months begins publishing
“The Social Question”. The
Internationalist
language
of this and future work
which comes to circulate
transnationally is one that is
abstracted from the specifics of
the southern discontent and is
re-calibrated towards drafting
Anarchia which is concerned
with disrupting all oppressive
social relations created by the
formation of every government:
Anarchists,
including
this writer, have used the
word State, and still do, to
mean the sum total of the
political, legislative, judiciary,
military
and
financial
institutions through which
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the management of their
own affairs, the control over
their personal behaviour,
the responsibility for their
personal safety, are taken
away from the people and
entrusted to others who, by
usurpation or delegation, are
vested with the powers to
make the laws for everything
and everybody, and to oblige
the people to observe them,
if need be, by the use of
collective force (MALATESTA,
1891).
This comes to circulate
transnationally
as
an
abstracted, universalist and
internationalist radical writing
that stands against “the sum
total of the political, legislative,
judiciary, military and financial
institutions”. It is this seeking
to disrupt the “sum total” of
oppressive social relations that
shifts the focus away from a
politics based on the southern
discontent itself that informed
somewhat his formative years.
What is also lost from this
analysis and is not visible in
this or other related writing
including in Il Risveglio, is the
embodiment of the southern
discontent within the direct
actions of Malatesta. I would
argue that it is not accidental
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that after joining the anarchists
Malatesta organizes a siege in
the southern part of Italy. In
1877 Malatesta and Cafiero
are the two leading southern
anarchists of the Matese
Band that is made up by 30
revolutionaries
recruited
across Italy and Russia. They
are recruited to conduct a siege
and occupy the towns in the
Benevento province “as part of
communicating to the widest
audience as possible that the
Italian Workers Association
was seeking social justice”
(WHELEHAN, 2012, p.65).
The siege not only follows
the Brigandaggio’s tactics of
“making actions and reactions
not clear” to state armies
but more symbolically, it is
organised “not far from the
scene of the Pontenlandolfo
massacre” an area that is
known for having fiercely
resisted
the
Piedmontese
troops by civil unrest and for
subsequently becoming a site
where the locals came to be
massacred (WHELEHAN, 2012,
p.65). Pernicone also makes
the point that the Matese area
is selected precisely because it
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provides the rugged terrain and
a warlike population whose
combativeness they hope to
rekindle (PERNICONE, 1993,
119). So, I ask here isn’t this
rekindling part of the pursuit
of social justice for southern
populations that Malatesta
knows have been “oppressed” by
the introduction of a northernbased form of governance
and its laws? After all, the
memories of the “massacres”,
includingthe killings, raping,
robbing and the burning of the
two cities of Pontelandolfo &
Casalduni by the Piedmontese
armed forces on August 14,
1861, are still raw at the time
of this siege (FRASCELLA,
2016). What follows however
during and after thisshort-lived
siege, isa forceful response
from the Italian state and its
armies and the criminalisation,
displacement and exile of
Malatesta and all members
of the Matese Band. So, this
becomes another moment when
the explicit attempts to bring
together the social question
with the southern discontent is
brutally opposed by the state.
Yet, this is also a moment that is
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evacuated from Malatesta and
future transnational anarchist
writing that is shaped by the
anarchist social question. The
seeking to disrupt the “total
sum” of oppressive social
relations of the social question
removes focus from the violent
social relations that have
shaped the southern discontent
and informed Malatesta’s direct
action.
I will finish with the
analysis of an article the
Workers of Queensland written
by the editor Carmagnola as
part of his attempt to localize
transnational
anarchosyndicalism and create a
unified
proletarian
class
against capitalism and the state.
Responding to racist attacks
by media against ItalianAustralian diasporic workers,
the translocal imaginary shapes
the social question by seeking
the social emancipation of local
workers and the creation of a
unified proletariat that gives up
nation, nationalism, patriotism
and racial hatred. Similarly,
to anti-fascist articles, this
translocal political imaginary
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is deployed in the paper again
by way of what Ahmed (2014)
calls a politics of emotions
that aligns “painful and hateful
sentiments” with nationalism,
patriotism, and racial hatred.
As Carmagnola states:
…the writer of these lines has
long overcome the concept
of
Nation
[homeland],
and has embraced a more
noble and bigger ideal, that
unite [man!] from all over
the world and therefore is
not affected by localism…
my mode of thinking will
encounter opposition from
those used to look at things
from the obfuscated lenses
of the hateful sentiment of
nationalism that teaches man
[sic!] to hate those of another
nation…What is the cause
of these painful sentiments?
Because I am only speaking
about Italian and Australian
workers, I would say that
the cause of this sickness
resides with both of them
as they have not been able
to free themselves from the
stupidity of racial hatred
inculcated in their minds by
false education...this [racial
hatred] foremost divides
while they should be uniting
against the common enemy
of capitalism (IL RISVEGLIO,
1/8/1927, pp.1-2).
This translocal imaginary
exchange
“odious”
and
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“hateful” sentiments that align
nationalism, patriotism, and
racial hatred as the hateful
objects requiring disruption
and rejection (AHMED, 2014).
These negative attachments
work to prevent the binding
of Italian and Australian
workers to the production of
hate itself and to align workers
with anarchism. So, negative
sentiments are proposed as
limiting the teaching of “people
of one nation…to hate those of
another” and “racial hatred”
(AHMED, 2014; CARMAGNOLA,
1927, p.1). This politics of
emotions
then
delineates
the translocal framework for
an
anti-capitalist
struggle
that
links
the
affective
sentimentality of nationalism,
patriotism and racial hatred to
hate politics. (NEWMAN, 2010;
2015; FABER, 2009).
This sentimental translocal
imaginary also conjures up
an insular political imaginary
that evokes the formation of
a white proletariat. I move
here to combine the concept
of translocal with an analysis
of the linkages of the “trans”
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of race, state and empire to
open and problematize the
ramification of this political
insularity.
Carmagnola’s
translocal imaginary infers the
rejection of what Perera calls as
the insular imaginary that locks
the political into the insularity
of the state and sovereign
politics (PERERA, 2009, p.1).
In fact, opposition to state
sovereignty and its recourse to
nationalism as the framework
for the political order is
central to the social question
(NEWMAN, 2010; 2015; FABER,
2009). For Perera however, the
insularity of nation is grounded
upon a British Imperial and
racial geo-political imaginary
that is reconfigured in different
contexts,
affiliations,
and
attachments
that
negate
Indigenous
sovereign
ontologies and epistemologies
and are premised on a subject
that is racialized, white and
imperial
(PERERA,
2009,
p.162; MORETON-ROBINSON,
2015). Carmagnola’s translocal
writing, on the other hand,
is shaped as well as enacting
“trans-” relations of race, state
and empire that re-ground the
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settler colonial state. These
combinatorial workings of
“trans” are shaped by linkages
with the anarchist concepts
of racial hatred and racial
prejudice that define them as
tools of governance that imprint
hierarchical, and oppressive
relations that workers are urged
to cut adrift from as part of their
emancipation (BAKUNIN, 1873;
MALATESTA, 1914; NEWMAN,
2015). This “trans-” orientation
part of Carmagnola’s writing
diminishes race to a political
fact, that is to a temporal and
after-event strategy of the
state (DA SILVA, 2009, p.233).
This significance closes off
the linkages to the productive
power of the racial that has
constituted the state and its
workers as part of an Imperial
and settler colonial order that
dis-avow that which signifies
“other”-wise
(DA
SILVA,
2007, p.xiii). Overall, these
“trans” linkages of race, state
and empire negate Imperial
and settler colonial relations
and reconfigure an insular
imaginary that evokes the
formation of a white proletariat
(ROEDIGER, 2000).
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This insular translocal
imaginary remains within the
horizons of an imperial, racial
arsenal that reconfigure a white
proletariat (ROEDIGER, 2000).
The newspaper circulates an
insular imaginary that creates
a working-class compact by
unifying emancipated Italian
workers
with
Australian
workers in ways that enacts
what
Moreton-Robinson
calls the exclusive white
possessiveness over political
subjectivity and sovereignty.
In effect, this translocal class
politics retains whiteness a
privileged and exclusive form
of property sanctioned by law
(MORETON-ROBINSON, 2004,
p. 5; ROEDIGER, 2000). As
Carmagnola writes:
Oh! [Italian] Comrade workers
of North Queensland! Let
us destroy in ourselves that
brutal egoism which renders
us slaves to ourselves. Let us
free ourselves of prejudices
and superstitions and let
us unite ourselves with the
Australian workers in the
struggle against the masters
who oppress and exploit us.
Let us remember the words
of that great one [Marx] who
said that the emancipation
of the proletariat cannot but
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be the work of the workers
themselves (IL RISVEGLIO,
1/8/1927, p.1).
This translocal imaginary
re-deploys the figure of the
“Australian
workers”
that
nativizes British diaspora as
the self-determined white
sovereign occupier of the land
and worker of the cane fields.
Also, the article’s call to Italian
cane cutters to emancipate
by giving up racial prejudice
against Australian workers,
solicits the constitution of a
self-determining white working
class that historically has
already forcefully infiltrated
the land, sugar industry and
plantations
and
negated
Indigenous sovereignties and
supported restrictions and
deportation against non-white
labour (PALOMBO, 2015). As
Affeldt (2014) demonstrates
the sugar industry by this
stage had been grounded upon
a forceful struggle over the
control of land, appropriation,
and dispersal of Indigenous
populations by white colonial
settlers, authorities and the
Native Police. This continues
with the control of the
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availability
of
Indigenous
labour by introducing South
Sea Islanders as workers and
negating
that
Indigenous
workers have been employed
intermittently in sugar mills,
cane fields, and farms, albeit
often
under
exploitative
conditions. This negation and
exclusion expanded in the
1920s as the introduction
of the sugar workers’ award
see the refusal to pay award
wages to Indigenous workers
and increasingly employing
white Europeans (AFFELDT,
2014). Faber in this regard also
alludes to the white possessive
power of this insular translocal
imaginary when summing up
the newspaper L’Avanguardia
Libertaria(1930-32) as writing
a labor history that supported
the White Australia Policy
and “dismissed” Indigenous
populations as a “dying race” a
racial trope that negates their
sovereign presence and work
(2009, p.5). Thus, reiterating
that this writing configures an
insular anarchist imaginary on
the white worker (ROEDIGER,
2000).
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The constitution of a white
working class destabilizes the
radical, anti-sovereign relations
that Bakunin’s and Malatesta’s
writing implied. Bakunin work
on Imperialism and Indigenous
and
national
liberation
struggles had acknowledged
the pre-existing rights of
“nationality groups” to political
and cultural self-determination
(CIPKO, 1990). As he stated, “I
will always champion the cause
of oppressed nationalities
struggling to liberate themselves
from the domination of the
State” (BAKUNIN cited in CIPKO
1990). Interestingly Errico
Malatesta’s in his “Towards
Anarchism” less directly also
hints to the imposition of the
modern state and laws on
“minorities” when he states:
“There is in every country a
government which, with brutal
force, imposes its laws on all; it
compels all to be subjected to
exploitation and to maintain,
whether they like it or not, the
existing institutions. It forbids
the minority groups to actuate
their ideas (1899)”.
What
must
also
be
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noted is that these political
concerns over minorities and
Indigenous liberation struggles
are enmeshed in the localized
struggles against racial and
settler colonial governance by
the labour movement of other
settler colonies including Egypt
and South Africa (HIRSCH
& VAN DER WALT, 2010).
So, it is specifically within
the Australian context that
anarchism remains locked in
a critique of national and state
sovereignty that negates settler
colonialism and Indigenous
struggles.
Carmagnola’s
translocal
writing in “Workers’ United” in
effect effaces the configuration
of racial differences that scripted
Indigenous populations and
Italian-Australian
diaspora.
Its focus on uniting workers
affirms a self-determining
white, European working class
in ways that are dismissive of
the countless violence brought
on both Indigenous but also
Italian-Australian
diasporic
workers. The article continues
to hold Italian diasporic subjects
responsible for failing to form
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comradeship with Australian
workers. As Carmagnola states:
Why are we Italians looked
upon so favourably by
employers all over the world?
Because we are ignorant and
because we allow ourselves
to be exploited more than
others…[Italians] came with
greed to amass money…
The majority…these…misers
cannot unite with Australian
workers in the struggles
against
capitalism...(IL
RISVEGLIO, 1/8/1927, pp.12).
Through
this
direct
address, the Italia diaspora
is effectively scolded for not
engaging with unions. It further
encourages union engagement
in ways that efface the violent
reality
that
bio-politically
governed everyday relations
between Australian and ItalianAustralian workers. This article
diminishes white workers
deployment of the racial as a
forceful political, symbolic tool
that re-inscribes the “Olive
Peril” of the 1920s. Racially
distinguished as undesirable,
unassimilable, violent, criminal
and
non-white
Southern
Europeans, Southern Italian
diasporic bodies are subjected
to attacks in streets and
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even bombed in their homes
precisely by self-identified
white “Australian workers”
(PALOMBO, 2015; DALSENO,
1994; ALAFACI, 1999). In
this case, this forceful white
sovereignty is not configured
by the state, but by what
Mbembe calls a “heteronomous
organization of territorial
rights and claims” exercised
by individuals and organized
labour and unions (MBEMBE,
2003, p.31). They demand and
enact the physical elimination of
racialized Southern Europeans
and Southern Italians workers
(PALOMBO, 2015). By effacing
racial differences, this article
actively forgets the impact of
the forceful violence exercised
by white workers on diasporic
subjects and communities
categorized
as
Southern
Europeans
and
Southern
Italians.
Carmagnola and the other
editors of this paper share
the same common ground of
the early diasporic feminists
in the US: their arrival from
the Northern regions of Italy.
Similarly to these radical
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writers, Il Risveglio effaces the
racial politics that shaped the
south and southerners both
In Italy and Australia. In the
settler terrain of Australia, this
equates the northern regions
of Italy with whiteness. These
editors are embodied within a
racial schema of whiteness that
in the colonial settler context
gives preference and privilege
to their arrivals. In Queensland
especially, it is agriculturalists
from Northern Italian regions
of Piedmont that are carefully
selected and recruited to
replace the South Sea Islander
workers under the auspices
of implementing the White
Australian policy. The Ferry
Report of 1925, also favours
Northern Italians as genetically
and culturally assimilable
subjects, while it categorizes
Southern
Italian
workers
from Sicily as the “swarthier”
subjects involved en masse
in illegal or disloyal activities
(PALOMBO, 2015) lowering the
working conditions of white
workers
(FERRY REPORT
1925, p. 14). Most importantly,
as Pugliese as demonstrated
this racial knowledge is
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grounded upon a transnational
onto-epistemology of raciality
that solidifies in Italy itself
after the Northern-led colonial
occupation of the Southern
regions of Italy under the
guise of “National Unification.”
(PUGLIESE, 2002; PALOMBO,
2015). In these accounts,
Southern Italians are perceived,
in da Silva’s (2007) terms, as
affectable and miscegenated
populations generated by their
inferior cultural, religious,
sexual and geospatial domains.
In the nineteenth century, the
“science of man” developed in
the work of Cesare Lombroso
(1841-1936), Guglielmo Ferrero
(1871-1942), Alfredo Niceforo
(1876-1960), Giuseppe Sergi
(1841-1936)
and
Enrico
Ferri (1856-1929), especially,
contributed
to
existing
European onto-epistemological
knowledge
by
affiliating
southern populations to “blood
mixing” relations with Greeks,
Romans, Normans, African
and Arabs (PALOMBO, 2015).
The so-called “Southernists”
effectively argued that interracial sexual relations had
given shape to “a region that is a
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priori condemned to perpetual
inferiority”
(GUGLIELMO,
2010, p. 83). This racialised
perception of the interracial relations of southern
populations is one that will
come to mark migrants overall
but especially women from
southern regions migrating to
Australia in terms of in terms
of their capacity to contribute
to the hetero normative white
nation (PALOMBO, 2015). The
point here, however, is that
Il Risveglio effaces the racial
politics that shaped both the
south of Italy and southern
Italians.
The closure of Il Risveglio
The production and reading of diasporic and transnational newspapers in the
post-War World One period is
regulated by the Publication
of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations Act 1921
(Cwlth) that replaces the restrictions of martial law. Following a similar logic used in War
World one, under their categorization as in “foreign language,” these papers are profiled
as necessitating direct state
approval “by the Prime Minis-
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ter or of some person there to
authorized by the Prime Minister” and be subjected to any
conditions, including a translation in the English language
for that matter and use force to
seize any copies of the newspaper (Statutory Rule, Publication
of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations Act 1921).
This Act is part of an arsenal of
raciality that ethnicizes diasporic cultural productions as “foreign” in the sense of embodying
unbreakable blood (or biological) affiliations to foreign radical politics. It combines a “drive
to expel socialism and communism from Australia” with the
elimination of diasporic “radical socialists, Bolshevists, Wobblies, pacifists, trade unionists,
Sinn Feiners and anarchists”
(FISCHER 1989, p. 48; FISCHER
N. 2002, pp. 224-225; DUTTON,
2002, p.106; BEAUMONT, 2013,
p.550). The Publication of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Act
through ethnic profiling continues this propensity to annihilate diasporic political powers.
The politics circulating
within Il Risveglio is kept
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under constant surveillance
by the Australian authorities.
This as with other Anarchist
newspapers became the subject
of intensive investigations
and creation of files, and by
1932 they were all shut down.
In 1927 the Italian ConsularGeneral Grossardi writes that
Italian Australian anti-fascist
activities of The Risveglio are
subversive, violent and criminal
in nature and demands its
closure precisely because they
opposed the sovereignty of the
Italian Fascist state (ITALIAN
PUBLICATIONS, CIB Director,
Correspondence Canberra 4
December 1929). Il Risveglio
was then posited in the
investigative file as of “extremist
character,”
“inciting
class
warfare, Bolshevism, anarchy,
violence and political murders”
(1927 cited in CRESCIANI 1980,
p. 102). What functions here,
is a recourse to a state-based
form of collaboration between
Italian Fascist authorities and
Australian state against the
circulation of the ant-sovereign
state politics espoused by the
diasporic newspapers of the
left. The Attorney General’s
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Department
collects
and
supports this condemnation
of the newspaper declaring
that the paper has not been
registered and recommends
recourse to the Newspapers In
Foreign Languages Regulations
Act (1921) (Cmwlth) with the
aim of shutting it down.
Conclusion
In this paper, I begin the
south-verting of Il Risveglio.
The combined examination
of the explicit relationality
of the linkages of “trans-” to
gender, race and empire with
the analysis of transnational
and
translocal
political
imaginaries,
problematize
and unsettle the effacement of
the southern discontent. This
effacement is shown to be reconfigured by transnational
and translocal knowledge and
by their “trans” relations with
abstracted, totalising, insular
and northern-based political
imaginaries produced across
geo-political spaces that come
to circulate in Il Risveglio. These
imaginaries are shown to be
grounded upon the anarchist
social question in ways that
shift the focus from historical
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political discontents in the
south and produces abstracted,
and totalising social concerns
with political governance and
economic inequalities. Most
poignantly, this linkage to
the social question is central
to the writings of northern
radical diaspora including early
feminists, that is produced
in the US and Australia. This
writing
seemingly
effaces
southern women’s concerns
and negates the racialisation
of southern Italian diasporic
workers. In Australia, this
effacement intersects with
the ways the newspaper reconfigures insular “trans”
relations of race, empire, class
and whiteness that legitimate
settler colonialism and produce
an exclusive white working
class that negates Indigenous
sovereign struggles. Therefore,
this paper argues that the
effacement of the southern
discontent is re-configured
by
the
radical
political
imaginaries that circulate in Il
Risveglio. These imaginaries
are connecting relationally to
varied totalising, insular and
northern-based knowledge that
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form and move across various
geopolitical spaces.
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