the substance of many of his articles and speeches, such as of the famous open letter to the anarchist Minister of Health Federica Montseny, who with three other anarchists participated in the government of Largo Caballero: In his 1936 book Thought and Battle'', Berneri gave critical comments on the situation, warning of the danger of a Stalinist coup, and marked his surprise at the "anarchist government." His political suggestions for hitting the operational bases of fascism were numerous, though unheeded, such as proclaiming the independence of Morocco, coordinating military efforts and gradually strengthening socialization. Political assassination Berneri was soon exposing the fierce repressions carried out by Stalinists that had prevailed since the advent of the government of Juan Negrín: the victims of massacres and disappearances included thousands of non-communists, anarchists and also non-Stalinist communists, like the POUM. On May 5, 1937, Camillo Berneri and his anarchist friend Francesco Barbieri were taken out of their apartment by a dozen plainclothes men with red armbands and policemen. The corpses of the two Italian anarchists were found riddled with bullets. Giovanna Berneri raised the children of Antonio Cieri, who also fell in Spain. On Camillo Berneri's death, the socialist leader Pietro Nenni wrote: "If the anarchist Berneri had fallen on a barricade in Barcelona, fighting against the popular government, we would have nothing to say, and in the severity of his destiny we would find the strict law of the revolution. But Berneri was assassinated, and we must say it". Family Camillo Berneri was married to Giovanna Berneri, and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and Giliana Berneri, all of whom were also anarchists. See also Anarchism in Italy Further reading References External links Writings of Camillo Berneri Camillo Berneri, Regarding our critiques of Bolshevism, 1922. Camillo Berneri, Abstentionism and anarchism, 1936. Berneri Archive 1897 births 1937 deaths People from Lodi, Lombardy Italian anarchists Italian anti-capitalists Anarcho-communists 19th-century Italian journalists Italian male journalists Murdered anarchists Italian people of the Spanish Civil War Italian people murdered abroad Deaths by firearm in Spain People murdered in Spain Academic staff of the University of Florence 20th-century Italian philosophers Italian military personnel of World War I Italian exiles