Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background.

The Nation | June 3, 1991| | Copyright

Like the Rosenbergs or the Haymarket martyrs, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have become larger-than-life figures. In the 1920s, for many working people throughout the United States and abroad, the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, who were convicted of robbery and murder in 1921, served as a rallying cry against the brutality of American capital and the state. Socialists, Communists and anarchists worked to save them, as did intellectuals, including John Dos Passos, H.L. Mencken, Heywood Broun and Edna St. Vincent Millay, but they all explained the case and its ...

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