“May porto alegre’s people, especially the working class”, learn, protest and manifest: the Sacco and Vanzetti case

Abstract

The execution of the Italian anarchist duo Sacco and Vanzetti shook the international press, the latter being both related to the working class or not. What mattered was to report what was happening, and here workers’ journals distanced themselves from others because the former identified and created pedagogical relations with the fact. These groups of organizer workers were not limited to publishing, but also articulated solidarity manifestations to Sacco and Vanzetti. Thus, rallies and a Pro Sacco and Vanzetti Committee emerged in Porto Alegre, as well as many pages written about their conviction. This article attempted to analyze spaces used in demonstrations in defense of the anarchists, as well as to identify key speakers of such events. In addition, it was deemed worth considering where newspapers stood on the matter, in addition to matching the places where the rallies took place with the ones cited by newspapers and any practices of those groups. The methodology used went through newspapers in a qualitative manner aiming at highlighting the most peculiar and general characteristics that they presented. Events that occurred in Brazil were generally problematized, and events in Porto Alegre were specifically approached, from the ‘associative culture’ perspective, which studies manifestations based on these relations with working societies.