1. Onorato Damen, was an Italian left communist revolutionary who was first active in the Italian Socialist Party and then the Communist Party of Italy.
10 Facts About Onorato Damen
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Onorato Damen was the author of books Bordiga Beyond the Myth and Gramsci: Between Marxism and Idealism.
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Onorato Damen remained in Pistoia up to his arrest in the months of the electoral campaign of 1921 for the action from Poggio a Caiano.
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Onorato Damen was sentenced to three years confinement in the Murate in Florence.
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Onorato Damen attended the meeting of the central committee but did not intervene in the debate, thus not obstructing the change in political direction that was supported by Antonio Gramsci and Palmiro Togliatti.
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Onorato Damen was a supporter of Communist Left, not the new party direction.
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In November 1926, Onorato Damen was imprisoned in Ustica, while in December of the same year he was arrested and sent again to the Murate in Florence for participating in the action of Florentine communists in plotting against the state.
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Onorato Damen was again arrested at the end of 1935, and in 1937 for spreading communist propaganda about the Spanish Civil War, denouncing the stalinists.
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Onorato Damen was finally released by the Marshal Badoglio regime at the end of the war.
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Onorato Damen was in prison when the Internationalist Communist Party was launched, but his alignment with it was well known.