Heri dicebamus. After the Resistance, the anarchists took up the thread of their revolutionary discourse in the new Italian political and social context. Decimated during the long struggle against fascism, defeated in the Spanish war, powerless spectators of the Bolshevization of the labor movement, the old militants began the hard transition from being protagonists within mass politics in the first half of twentieth century to becoming its observers. The movement was regenerated as a kind of “neo-anarchism”, by way of cultural contamination with the heretical left of the 50’s, through the libertarian movements of the following decade. Four main issues characterized the history of anarchism in Republican Italy: the new political actor FAI, ...