The Socialist Revolutionary Anarchist Party was a short-lived Italian

Italy

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 political party

Political party

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Founded in January 1891 at the Congress of Capolago, at which around 80 delegates from Italian socialist and anarchist groups participated. Notable figures included, Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarcho-communist. He was an insurrectionary anarchist early in his life. He spent much of his life exiled from his homeland of Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. He wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of...

, Luigi Galleani

Luigi Galleani

Luigi Galleani was an Italian anarchist active in the United States from 1901 to 1919, viewed by historians as an anarchist communist and an insurrectionary anarchist. He is best known for his enthusiastic advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", i.e...

, Amilcare Cipriani

Amilcare Cipriani

Amilcare Cipriani was an Italian anarchist patriot.Cipriani was born in Anzio to a family originally from Rimini...

, Andrea Costa

Andrea Costa

Andrea Costa was an Italian socialist activist, born in Imola.He co-founded the Partito dei Lavoratori Italiani in 1892 after renouncing his anarchist principles in 1879. It is probable that this happened due to his marriage to Russian Socialist Anna Kulischov...

 and Filippo Turati

Filippo Turati

Filippo Turati was an Italian sociologist, poet and Socialist politician.-Early life:Born in Canzo, province of Como, he graduated in law at the University of Bologna in 1877, and participated in the Scapigliatura movement with the most important artists of the period in Milan, publishing poetry...

. Malatesta envisioned the PSAR as the Italian federation of a new, anarchist and socialist, International Workingmen's Association

International Workingmen's Association

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The PSAR largely fell into the Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiano

Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party

The Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party was a socialist political party in Italy.It was founded in 1881 as Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna by Andrea Costa, a fomer anarchist converted to democratic socialism, after his marriage with Anna Kuliscioff...

 (PSRI). This organization was a founding member of the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani (PSLI) in 1892, which by 1895 had been renamed the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) and, amid sectarian struggles, ejected its anarchist wing.

Sources

• http://www.motiflibertaire.net/motif_anar/anitadat.doc
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Costa
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_Socialista_Rivoluzionario_Italiano