After escaping from forced residency on an island off the coast of Italy, Malatesta made his way to London and eventually Paterson, New Jersey, in 1899. Here, among thousands of weavers in the burgeoning silk industry, Malatesta contributed to the anarchist press and was caught up in intrigue with fellow Italian anarchists - resulting in a bullet to the leg on September 3, 1899. The second in our ten-volume Complete Works, it includes an introduction by the historian Nunzio Pernicone, written shortly before his death in 2013.