''Cronaca Sovversiva'' (Subversive Chronicle) was an Italian-language, United States–based anarchist newspaper associated with

Luigi Galleani Luigi Galleani (; 12 August 1861 – 4 November 1931) was an Italian insurrectionary anarchism, insurrectionary anarchist and Communism, communist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations ...

from 1903 to 1920. It is one of the country's most significant

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periodicals.

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Prior to founding ''Cronaca Sovversiva'',

became involved in

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activism beginning in the 1880s and showed a predilection for speaking and writing convincingly on the topic. After escaping an Italian prison sentence, he traveled through to

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and charged with incitement to riot, he first escaped to Canada before settling in

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, under an assumed name among Italian quarriers. There he began publishing the Italian-language anarchist newspaper ''Cronaca Sovversiva'' in 1903. The newspaper was banned from Italy in October 1915, and from the

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in June 1917. He continued to print the newspaper and distribute it cross-country via Railway Express and a network of supporters who delivered it locally.

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