About Alfredo M. Bonanno
Alfredo Maria Bonanno (4 March 1937 – 6 December 2023) was an Italian anarchist, recognized as a prominent theorist and proponent of contemporary insurrectionary anarchism. A long-time anarchist, he was imprisoned multiple times. Bonanno was an editor of Anarchismo Editions, among many other publications, only some of which have been translated into English. He was involved in the anarchist movement for over four decades. Bonanno was born in Catania in 1937 and died in Trieste in 2023, at the age of 86. == Political life == In the 1960s, a tendency within Italian anarchism that did not identify either with the Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI), which represented the more classical anarchist synthesis, or with the platformist inclined GAAP (Anarchist Groups of Proletarian Action), started to emerge as local groups. These groups emphasized direct action, informal affinity groups, and expropriation for financing anarchist activity. It is from within these groups that Bonanno emerged, particularly influenced by the practice of the Spanish exiled anarchist Josep Lluís i Facerias. The magazine Do or Die reported: "Much of the Italian insurrectionary anarchist critique of the movements of the 1970s focused on the forms of organisation that shaped the forces of struggle and out of this a more developed idea of informal organisation grew. A critique of the authoritarian organisations of the '70s, whose members often believed they were in a privileged position to struggle as compared to the proletariat as a whole, was further refined in the struggles of the '80s, such as the early 1980s struggle against a military base that was to house nuclear weapons in Comiso, Sicily.
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