Camillo Berneri

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Camillo Berneri was an Italian anarchist who fought and wrote about the Spanish Civil War alongside the Spanish anarchists. He was murdered during the 'May Days' of 1937, presumably on the orders of Moscow. This page is a collection of his writings.

Preface
Many of these writings were originally published in 'The Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review' Number 4, 1978. This Preface by Frank Mitz introduced them.

• A brief biography of Camillo Berneri
• Augustin Souchy's account of the Murder of Berneri and Barbieri
• Another biography of Luigi Camillo Berneri

Writings on Spain

• Interview on militarisation of the militias
• War and Revolution - 21st March 1936
• Open letter to comrade Federica Montseny - 14th April 1937.
• Between the war and the Revolution - 16th December 1936.
• Madrid, sublime city - No. 5, 2nd December, 1936
• Non - intervention and international involvement in the Spanish Civil War - 18th July, 1937.
• What Spanish anarchism must do to win - 24th October. 1936
• Beware, Dangerous Corner! - November, 1936.
• Social democracy and communism betrays the revolution - 1st February, 1937
• On the militarisation of the Italian column
• Counter Revolution on the March - 5th May 1937.
• Last letters to his family - 3rd and 4th May, 1937

On Leninism and Marxism

• State, Class and bureaucracy in the USSR
• The Abolition and Extinction of the State
• Dictatorship of the Proletariat and State Socialism - 5th November, 1936.
• Problems of the Revolution: the City and the Country - February 1937

The magazine many of these articles were taken from included the note - "N.B. Cienfuegos Press will be publishing Class War in Spain: Camillo Berneri which will contain a biography of Berneri and a full collection of his writings."