“The question is not: who has the guns? But rather: what do the people
with the guns do? 10,000 or 100,000 proletarians armed to the teeth are
nothing if they place their trust in anything beside their own power to
change the world. Otherwise, the next day, the next month or the next
year, the power whose authority they recognise will take away the guns
which they failed to use against it.”
On this day, 6 June 1900, Silvia Secchiari, anarchist and anti-fascist, was born in Carrara, Italy. Under fascism she and her family were subjected to many violent attacks, one of which left her paralysed. However she maintained her commitment to the cause of the working class by writing revolutionary songs, and her son helped set up the first partisan group in the region.
Pictured: Carrara partisans during World War II https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1139754642876351/?type=3
