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Synopsis
Edited and with a detailed introduction by Jon Curley, this work features a never-before-published short story by the famous anarchist and victim of legal persecution, xenophobia, and condemnation for his radical politics. That fact that Bartolomeo 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. In a time of assault on immigrants, dissidents, radicals, and the environment, Events and Victims is as timely as ever.