WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE BELGIUM BRUSSELS - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #35-25 - In memory of Peppe Tassone (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 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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