This work by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, edited and with a detailed
introduction by Jon Curley, features a never-before-published short
story by this famous anarchist and victim of legal persecution,
xenophobia, and condemnation for his radical politics. That fact that
Vanzetti, an Italian immigrant, learned to write in English while jailed
for a capital crime is remarkable enough. What is even more astonishing
is that he chose to use his new language skills to write creatively,
inventing a parable about worker exploitation and environmental disaster
that is as relevant today as it was almost one hundred years ago when
this prisoner took up his pen.
"Events and Victims" allows Vanzetti a new literary and historical
voice, an important document that narrates the very injustice that its
author suffered and fought. In a time of assault on immigrants,
dissidents, radicals, and the environment, "Events and Victims" is as
timely as ever.