Clelia Premoli

Overview

Clelia Premoli born Milan, Italy August 6, 1899 (d. 1974). Italian labor leader; individualist anarchist; age 17 arrested for antiwar protest Milan; encouraged draft resisters; arrested 1920; opposed Mussolini 1924; exiled to France, Uruguay, deported, and imprisoned 2 under Mussolini, then German concentration camp.

Quotations

“I had gone to the cathedral square to make the anti-war demonstration. I spoke of the human and the good side of men and at the end I cried Down with the war, the war is cursed by mankind. Imagine, the judges and the police were amazed, the crowd shouted with joy, I got lots of applause.” (Clelia Premoli "I made the tribunal pale," CretaStorie; photo bfscollezionedigitale)