Charles Malato

French revolutionary, journalist, theoretician and anarchist propagandist, born. Though from a 'noble' Neapolitan family, his father fought for the insurrectionist side in the 1848 Italian revolution, and later supported and fought to defend the Paris Commune, for which he was banished to the penal colony of New Caledonia, where Charles was born. After the 1881 amnesty, the family returned to France. In 1886 he founded the revolutionary paper 'La Révolution Cosmopolite' as his politics shifted decidedly towards anarchism. In 1897, he published 'The Philosophy of Anarchy' in which he laid out his anarchist communist views. His journalism at the time appeared in numerous papers including 'L'Art Social', 'La Société Nouvelle', 'L'Aurore', 'Le Réveil Lyonnais', as well as Ernest Gégout's journal 'L'Attaque' where one of his articles earned him a fifteen months sentence in prison in April 1890 for "incitement to murder, looting and arson". Exiled as a non-French citizen, he went into exile in London.

At the outset of World War I, Malato was a supporter of the union sacrée and a signatory of the pro-Allies Manifesto of the Sixteen.