Life and Ideas gathers excerpts from Malatesta&;s writings over a lifetime of revolutionary activity. The editor, Vernon Richards, has translated hundreds of articles by Malatesta, taken from the journals Malatesta either edited himself or contributed to, from the earliest, L&;En Dehors of 1892, through to Pensiero e Volontà, which was forced to close by Mussolini&;s fascists in 1926, and the bilingual Il Risveglio/Le Réveil, which published most of his writings after that date. These articles have been pruned down to their essentials and collected under subheadings ranging from &;Ends and Means&; to &;Anarchist Propaganda.&; Through the selections Malatesta&;s classical anarchism emerges: a revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades of engagement in struggle and study. In addition there is a short biographical piece and an essay by the editor.
