Filippo Corridoni

<p><em>Filippo Corridoni</em> by Alceste de Ambris is a biography of Filippo Corridoni (AD 1887-1915) the charismatic indefatigable Italian revolutionary syndicalist and head of the Syndicalist Union of Milan.</p><p></p><p>A magnificent agitator a daring and expert leader of crowds he was also an anti-militarist but when WWI broke out he advocated for Italyʼs intervention volunteering himself and dying a hero on the front line. Not long before his death he said: I will die in a hole against a rock or in the fury of an assault; but - if I can - I will fall with my face toward the enemy as if to go further forward still. Apparently he did.</p><p></p><p>A willing holocaust for the the national enrichment of Italy he believed in a celeritous industrial and commercial development [of his country] and [the] proletarianizing [of Italian] workers... [to] create the conditions necessary for a natural interplay of class conflicts eliminating the false Socialism of cooperatives mutualists and petty politickers... [and leading finally] to the triumph of syndicalism.</p><p></p><p>Alceste de Ambris (AD 1874-1934) was an Italian syndicalist journalist and politician. He was a friend and colleague of Corridoniʼs.</p><p></p>