Fosco Falaschi

On November 21 from 1899 born in Città di Castello (Umbria, Italy) the anarchist and Anarcho-syndicalist Fosco Falaschi. His parents were called Giuseppe Falaschi, a worker, and Enrichetta Pellegrini. When he was a child his family emigrated to Argentina and He settled in Buenos Aires. In 1916 he began to work in the oven of a brick. In 1919 joined the Workers' Society of the Workers of Bòbila, which grouped the workers who made tiles, bricks, mosaics, etc., attached to the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Regional Workers Federation (FORA), and of which it became in 1923 secretary, in addition to directing his organ of expression El Obrero Ladrillero. Organ of the Union of Ladrilleros Workers and Annexes. That same year, he was first arrested for “Incitement to strike.” Between 1929 and 1933 he was arrested on numerous occasions as a precautionary measure and always for its trade union activities. Apart from the anarcho-syndicalist front, he joined the anarchist group "Umanità Nova" and the Alliance Italian Anti-Fascist (AAI).

He also collaborated in the newspaper La Protesta and in his supplement Literary. The authorities linked him with Severino Di Giovanni's group and the December 1932 was involved in the uprising organized by Colonel Atilio Cattáneo, which had the support of Argentine anarchist groups. Detained in January 1933, he was expelled on June 23 of that year for "activities Subversive.” When he landed in Genoa (Liguria, Italy), he was transferred to Città di Castello, where he was assigned the residence. A few days later he fled, but in September 1933 he was arrested by the carabineros of Moncenisio when He tried to spend clandestinely in France. Send back to your city born, again fled and in April 1934 he was severely admonished. The August of 1934 finally managed to expatriate clandestinely to France and then pass on the Peninsula. Established in Barcelona (Catalonia), he collaborated in the newspapers Solidaridad Obrera, in the writing of the who worked, and Tierra y Libertad, where he used the pseudonyms FF i and Gino Fosco. Francisco Ascaso, from Regional Committee of Catalonia of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT), the He proposed as director of Solidaridad Workers, when its manager, Manuel Villar, was imprisoned after the anarchist uprising of December 1933. Based in Madrid, he lived with José Ledo Limia and Miguel González Inestal, frequenting the editorial office of Revolución Social. After the facts of October 1934, he was arrested, imprisoned in Madrid (Spain) and prosecuted with Ledo, Benigno Mancebo and Miguel Hernández.

From January 1936 onwards, He unleashed a broad campaign of support for his release. Once free, After the amnesty that brought the triumph of the Popular Front, he returned to Barcelona. Following the Fascist military coup, on July 23, 1936, he volunteered to the Italian Section of the "Ascaso" Column, commanded by Carlo Roselli and Mario Angeloni. Just like the latter and other colleagues (Michele Centrone, Vicenzo Perrone, etc.), Fosco Falaschi died on August 28, 1936 from a shot in the belly during the battle of Monte Pelado, on the Aragon front, between Huesca and Almudébar (Aragón, Spain). The news of his death was reviewed in the Catalan newspapers and in the cities of Barbastro and Figueres streets took his name. After his death, Diego Abad de Santillán translated some of his texts – El trabajo Responsable (1936), Escritos selectos (1938) and La cura del odio. Palabras de juventud (1938)– which were published by the publishing house Tierra y Libertad and in the magazine Timon..