FdCA Timeline
The history of the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici throughout the years: its congresses, meetings and activities

index

1994 1995 1996

 

Florence, 15 January: FdCA National Secretariat
  • Internal situation: working towards the Anarchist Communist Minimum Programme
  • Press: New FdCA publication - Alternativa Libertaria
  • National reports
  • International relations.
 

Florence, 29 January: Meeting between FdCA and Oltre-Senza Frontiera

 

Working together on the line to take in view of the upcoming CGIL congress.
 

Florence, 1 February: The class-struggle left and the Dini government

 

A meeting and debate organized by the local FdCA branch.
 

Altamura (BA), 11 February: Remembering Sante Cannito


Sante Cannito

 

The FdCA participates with a talk by Donato Romito in this event, organized by local publisher "Torre di Nebbia", dedicated to the figure of the anarchist communist Sante Cannito, who died in 1994 at the age of 96. Cannito was a member of the Italo-American anarchist movement, working with the New York newspaper "Il Martello" (edited by Carlo Tresca). During the 1970s and '80s, he lived in the Italian region of Apulia and was involved with and supported the Apulian anarchist communist Revolutionary Anarchist Organization (ORA).
 

Bologna, 12 March: National FdCA Convention

Sala del Cassero di Porta S. Stefano

 
The anarchist communist Minimum Programme: “Forms of capitalism and government”. Introduction by Saverio Craparo of the FdCA's Florence branch.

Also participating, members of the Circolo Papini from Fano, the USI from Bologna and observers from Pesaro and Bologna.

 

Florence, 21-25 March: "Maccaronì & Vu Cumprà" Exhibition on Immigration promoted by the FdCA and the CGIL Immigrant Department

 

An exhibition at the local Metropolitan Labour Club, with an introduction by a panel of FdCA members.
 

Florence, 26 March: Meeting between the FdCA and the Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)

 

Agreements made for joint publications and participation at international meetings.
 

Florence, 26 March: FdCA National Secretariat
  • The general situation
  • Alternativa Libertaria
  • CGIL Congress
  • International relations.
 

Bologna, 1 April: "Dedicated to offending"

 

National convention organized by the Associazione per lo Sbattezzo. Among the speakers, Gianni Cimbalo of the FdCA.
 

Florence, April: "Maccaronì & Vu Cumprà" Exhibition on Immigration

 

Exhibition held at Florence University, the Casa del Popolo di Colonnata and the Casa della Cultura-Circolo Lippi, introduced by FdCA members.
 

Verona, 29 April: 50th Anniversary of the Resistance Movement

 

Event promoted by the "La Pecora Nera” social centre. Introduced by the FdCA with a talk by Adriana Dadà on Domaschi, an anarchist communist who died in Dachau.
 

Crema (CR), 29 April: Circuiti Resistenti 1945/95

 

An anti-fascist event promoted by the National Partisans' Association of Italy (ANPI) in Piazza Trento Trieste. The FdCA participates with an exhibition on anarchists in the Resistance movement.
 

Florence, 4 May: 50th Anniversary of the Resistance Movement

 

Event organized by the Biblioteca Archivio Storico “Il ‘68” with the participation of the FdCA's Adriana Dadà speaking on “Anarchists and the policy of the single front against fascism. The Arditi del Popolo”.
 

Florence, 18 May: "Maccaronì & Vu Cumprà" Exhibition on Immigration

 

Exhibition at the Centro Popolare Autogestito. Introduced by Adriana Dadà of the FdCA.
 

Herouville-Saint Clair (France), 25-28 May: 3rd Congress of Alternative Libertaire

 

An FdCA delegation is invited.
 

Fano (PU), 27 May: 50th Anniversary of the Resistance Movement

 

Event organized by the Circolo Culturale Napoleone Papini with the participation of the FdCA's Adriana Dadà speaking on “Anarchist resistance against fascism, yesterday and today”.
 

Bologna, 28 May: National FdCA Convention

Sala del Cassero di Porta S. Stefano

 
The anarchist communist Minimum Programme: “The institutional question and the crisis of the welfare state”. Introduced by Gianni Cimbalo of the FdCA's Florence branch.

Also participating, members of the Circolo Papini from Fano and observers from Bologna.

 

Florence, 19 June: FdCA National Secretariat
  • Internal situation
  • Press
  • National relations: anarchist communists in the north of the Marches region
  • International relations.
 

Lucca, 4-13 August: "Maccaronì & Vu Cumprà" Exhibition

 

Exhibition on the processes of migration, with an introduction by the FdCA, held during the Festa di Liberazione. Debate with Adriana Dadà of the FdCA.
 

Jura (Switzerland), 10-13 August: International Libertarian Communist Days

 

Organized by the OSL-Organisation socialiste libertaire. The FdCA is invited.
 

Ruesta (Spain): 13-20 August: International libertarian meeting

 

Organized by Alternative Libertaire (France), the first international meeting for many years of libertarian and class-struggle anarchist militants involved in political and union work. The FdCA is invited.
 

Lecce, 22 August: Meeting between the FdCA and the Gruppo Anarchico “Le Malelingue” from Lecce

 

Agreement made to further cooperation and mutual understanding.
 

Fano (PU), 24-27 August: 12th Anti-Clerical Meeting

Rocca Malatestiana

 

Organized by the Circolo Papini from Fano and by the Associazione per lo Sbattezzo. Featuring the FdCA exhibition, “Maccaronì e Vu Cumprà”.

Also taking place: a meeting of young anarchists from the Marche region (to prepare for the inter-regional convention in Reggio Emilia), including comrades from the FdCA supporter group in Fano.

 

Altamura (BA), 30 August: Meeting between the FdCA and the publishers “Torre di Nebbia”

 

Agreement reached for future editorial cooperation.
 

Florence, 9 September: FdCA National Secretariat
  • Relations with the ex-FdCA members, Comunismo Libertario
  • Young anarchists' convention
  • FdCA convention on the Minimum Programme
  • International relations.
 

Florence, 10 September: Meeting between the FdCA and members of the Circolo Papini from Fano

 

Towards the creation of an FdCA branch in Fano.
 

Reggio Emilia, 16-17 September: Inter-regional meeting of young anarchists

 

“Jobs, education, libertarian spaces, anti-militarism, …” – with the participation and political contribution of the comrades from the new FdCA branch in Fano.
 

Florence, October: FdCA magazine "Alternativa Libertaria", No.0, published

 

This issue includes articles by Saverio Craparo; Adriana Dadà; Silvia Francolini; George Fontenis; Mario Salvadori; Gianni Cimbalo; Mastorna; on the Ship To Bosnia initiative; on Ruesta.
 

Fano (PU), 4 October: Fano/Pesaro branch of the FdCA formally opened

 

Several members of the Circolo Papini in Fano make the choice for anarchist communist organization and, with the benefit of FdCA members already present in Pesaro for over ten years, open the new branch in order to establish a presence in the community and cooperate with other local libertarians. The branch is named after Nestor Makhno.
 

Molfetta (BA), 30 November: Ship To Bosnia

 

The "Havang" arrives at the port of Molfetta on its way to Split, to bring Bosnian workers the international aid gathered all over Europe by International Workers Aid, which includes grassroots unions and cultural associations. In Italy, the FdCA is the only anarchist political organization which contributes to the "Ship to Bosnia" campaign together with other libertarian, labour and social centre activists, with a container of aid for Bosnian workers in Tuzla, oppressed by the war. An FdCA delegation is present in Molfetta.
 

Bologna, 17 December: National FdCA Convention

Sala del Cassero di Porta S. Stefano

 
“The Minimum Programme in the history of the anarchist movement and on the threshold of the 21st century”. Introduced by Adriana Dadà and Giancarlo Leoni of the FdCA.

Also participating: members of the Anarcho-Communist Group from Bologna, the Circolo Papini from Fano and observers from Pesaro.