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On this day, 30 July 1906, Italian anti-fascist and revolutionary Alfonso Failla was born in Sicily. From the age of 19 he took part in the armed resistance to fascism: including the 1925 Battle of Siracusa where local residents and dock workers inflicted heavy losses on an invading force of 1,000 armed fascists. He was jailed by the fascists in 1930, until he led a prison revolt and mass breakout after 1943. He then got involved in the wartime resistance movement, and helped free hundreds of Italian prisoners being marched to Nazi death camps. He remained active until the end of his life in 1986.
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