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(en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #35-25 - In memory of Peppe Tassone (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Date Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:30:46 +0200


After a long illness, comrade Peppe Tassone passed away (November 20, 2025) at the age of 75. He had moved to Paris at a young age to avoid military service. There, he had come into contact with Spanish comrades from the exiled CNT and those of the ORA (Organisation Révolutionnaire Anarchiste), at their historic headquarters at 33 rue des Vignoles. With these comrades, he shared the libertarian enthusiasm that followed the 1968 uprisings. Having returned to Naples in the early 1970s, he was among the founders and key figures of the communist-anarchist group Kronstadt. The group's name was chosen at his suggestion, recalling a historical episode of criticism of the despotic and bureaucratic degeneration of Bolshevism, but with classist roots and motivations, without giving in to the mystifications of liberalism. Peppe contributed to giving the group a decidedly classist orientation, but he also managed to reconcile the more activist and anarcho-syndicalist thrusts. Along with others, Peppe also sought to incorporate the workerist and organizational demands of anarchist platformism while remaining in the Malatesta tradition. Within a few years, the Kronstadt group, which adhered to the FAI, became a point of reference for Neapolitan anarchism, both in terms of its numerical size and its political standing. For these reasons, collaboration with the Kronstadt was also sought by groups of the revolutionary left with radically different ideological backgrounds.

His militancy in France allowed his group comrades to engage with broader anarchist experiences, as well as with local working-class groups with whom Peppe had developed trusting relationships (Mecfond, Olivetti, Enel). Peppe had no difficulty making himself heard; indeed, his contributions were always sought after and closely followed, so much so that Peppe himself, with withering hints of irony and self-deprecation, would curb any risk of creating psychological subjugation. His caustic humor had become legendary, the same humor with which he courageously faced illness and suffering.

At the National Library of Naples, there is a Giuseppe Tassone collection containing some documents relating to those years (https://www.bnnonline.it/it/304/documenti-di-storia-contemporanea-fondo-giuseppe-tassone).

There's an interview with Enrico Voccia on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HosFd6Putws)

Our fondest memories go out to Peppe.

COMIDAD

https://umanitanova.org/in-ricordo-di-peppe-tassone/
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