by PAUL NURSEY-BRAY Paul Nursey-Bray is Senior Lecturer in
Politics at the University of Adelaide. First published in the
Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, Number 17,
1989: pp88-111. Republished with the permission of the author
and the current editor of the Journal of the Historical Society
of South Australia. Republished to commemorate the 60th
anniversary of the death of Fransesco Fantin. And for all the
refugees in mandatory detention (Concentration Camps) in
Australia at the present time. Like Fantin, they are innocent
victims of a world with borders and Nation States, and global
capitalism. - Takver "To describe him as a hero is not to depict
him as a grand figure bestriding the passage of history. Fantin
was hardly that. Fantin did not want to die. He did not want to
continue to confront Fascism. Had he had his choice he would, as
he made clear, have moved away from the aggression in Loveday
14A. But when his choices were denied and his options limited by
forces beyond himself he di