What is Carlo Tresca?
{{Infobox Person | name = Carlo Tresca | image = Carlo-tresca-1910.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_date = 1879 | birth_place = [[Italy]] | death_date = {{death date|1943|1|11|mf=y}} | death_place = [[New York City]], [[United States]] | occupation = Newspaper editor and [[Labor movement|labor leader]]. | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Carlo Tresca''' (1879 - January 11, 1943, [[New York City]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[United States|American]] [[Anarchism|anarchist]], newspaper editor, and [[Labor movement|labor agitator]]. Tresca was famous for the fight and the opposition to the [[fascism]], [[stalinism]], and the [[mafia]]. Tresca was part of the defense [[committee]] for accused murderers [[Sacco and Vanzetti]], and frequently spoke in their defense at rallies and in articles. During the 1930s, Tresca became an outspoken opponent of Soviet [[Communism|Communists]] and [[Stalinism]], particularly after the [[Soviet Union]] had engineered the destruction of the [[Anarchism in Spain|anarchist movement]] in [[Catalonia]] and [[Aragon]] during the [[Spanish Revolution]]. Before this, Tresca had supported the [[Bolsheviks]], with the excuse of that a [[Communist state]] was preferable to a [[capitalism|capitalist]] state. In early 1938 Tresca publicly accused the Soviets of [[kidnap]]ping [[Juliet Poyntz]] to prevent her defection from the [[Communist Party USA]]. Tresca said that, before she had disappeared, Poyntz had talked to him about her [[disgust]] over [[Joseph Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge|Great Terror]]. In 1941 Tresca, in a revealing moment, admitted to [[Max Eastman]] that [[Nicola Sacco]] was guilty of the crime with which he was charged, though [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Vanzetti]] was innocent. In New York, Tresca also began a public campaign of criticism of the Mafia in his weekly newspaper, ''Il Martello''. Tresca was killed probably by the mafia, with a gun shot. Others have thought that Tresca was eliminated by the [[NKVD]] because of the cr