What is Camillo Berneri?
[[Image:Camillo Berneri.jpg|thumb|right|Camillo Berneri]] '''Camillo Berneri''' (also known as '''Camillo da Lodi'''; [[1877]], [[Lodi, Italy|Lodi]]–[[May 5]] [[1937]], [[Barcelona]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] professor of [[philosophy]], [[anarchist]] [[militant]], [[propagandist]] and [[theorist]]. Berneri, a [[World War I]] veteran, [[University of Florence]] professor of [[humanities]], and a member of the [[Unione Anarchica Italiana]], fought always [[Fascism|Fascists]], and he started to fight fascism until [[1926]], when he was forced to escape from [[Italy]] and he went in [[France]], then [[Switzerland]], [[Germany]], [[Belgium]], [[Luxembourg]], and finally the [[Netherlands]]. In all these countries, Berneri was frequently placed under arrest, and then often [[expelled]], because he was an anarchist. When he was in these countries he wrote lot of [[Anti-clericalism|anti-clerical]] and [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] articles. With [[Carlo Rosselli]], Berneri organized the first troop (column) of Italian [[volunteers]] to fight in the [[Spanish Civil War]] against [[Francisco Franco]]. After months he became highly critical of the involvement of [[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo]] (CNT) members in the [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]] government, and he sent a letter to [[Federica Montseny]] (Anarchist minister for Health in the government against fascism). During the [[Barcelona May Days]], as troop of [[Communist Party of Spain]] members (apparently under orders from [[Joseph Stalin]]) searched and then murdered him. His body, riddled with [[bullets]], was found during the night, near the [[headquarters]] of the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]]. He was married to [[Giovanna Berneri]] and was father of [[Marie Louise Berneri]] and [[Giliane Berneri]]. The children were anarchists like their father Camillo. ==Related pages== *[[Anarchism in Italy]] ==Other websites== * [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BerneriCamillo.htm Camillo Berneri Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.