1946. Roberto Massari is born in
1963-1964. He attends the last year of High School in
1965. He finishes the High School in
1966. He spends a period in an israeli kibbutz and publishes his first sociological research on the kibbutzim theme. He also starts his political activity in the revolutionary left as a militant of the Fourth international.
1967. He graduates at Ismeo (Institute for Oriental studies) in Russian and
1968. He’s one of the animators of the students movement in
He lives six months in
1969. Back to
1969-1971. He works for two years as a sociologist in
1971-1972. He gains a scholarship for the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes and he moves to
He goes on with his activity in support of various Latin American movements.
He’s one of the founders of the Association des Amis de Fourier in
He starts a battle of opposition within the Italian section of the Fourth International, giving life to an international Tendency (then Faction).
1973. He gets the degree in Sociology at the
In summer he spends a long period in
1973-75. He works two years in
1974. He takes part at the X World congress of the Fourth international as principal counter-spokesman for the so-called «Third international tendency». A year after the Congress he is expelled from the Fourth international with others representatives of the Third tendency in
1974-75. He takes part in the Revolution of «Capitães» in
1976. He comes back from
To survive he starts giving piano and solfeggio lessons in private and teaches music for two years (1981-83) at a secondary school. He will go on giving piano lessons until 1992.
1975-81. He founds and directs the Controcorrente publishing house, which will be close in 1981 due to lack of money. He directs also the monthly Bulletin of the Fmr (1975-76) which will became The class, printed organ of the Communist league, Italian section of the Fmr (1976-80).
1977. He takes part actively at the «Movement of ‘77» in
1979. He publishes one of his most important books: Terrorism. History, concepts and methods (third expanded edition in 2002).
1980-81. After the self-dissolution of the international organization (the Fmr), for two years he is member of the National committee of Proletarian Democracy. He works in the DP’s weekly review and directs its Foreign relations committee. After two years he leaves the organization due to political differences.
1983. He writes the first of a series of historical novels (The series is named The lake’s secret). Up to now the first three novels have been published. Two of them were also published in
1984. After five years of classes he graduates at the School of visual arts (the «S. Giacomo») of the
1985. Liben, his first son, is born.
1986. Forcibly evicted, he takes part in conducting very tough struggles of the Movement for the house in
1987. He publishes his main book on Che: Che Guevara. Utopia’s thinking and policy (many editions in
On the theme of Che he collaborates happily for some years with
1989. He founds a new publishing house («Erre emme» now Massari editore) and to this he dedicates his life. At the moment, in the catalogue there are around 280 books. Of these, 26 are dedicated to Che.
1990. He graduates in piano at the
1994. He realizes a documentary film of 105 min. (Ernesto Che Guevara. Man, comrade, friend…) which will sold over 30.000 copies in
1996. He visits two times the Zapatista movement at La Realidad, in
He leaves
1998. He gives birth to the Che Guevara’s Foundation (of whom was and still is the president) and directs the biennial and multilingual review Che Guevara. Quaderni della Fondazione, whose editorial board is composed by some of the most important scholars of Che all over the world (4 Italians, 3 Cubans, 2 Bolivians, 2 Americans of Us, 2 Argentines, 1 Brazilian, 1 Peruvian, 1 Polish, 1 French). Quaderno n.9 is currently in preparation.
2003. After three years of courses at the national Association (Ais) he graduates as official «Sommelier».
He’s one of the founders of the Iraq-free Committees.
He founds the Political association «Red utopia» - with members in
2004. Laris, his second son is born.
In December he takes part at the intellectuals’ meeting «In defense of humanity» in
2003-09. He continues his activity of publisher, writer and president of the Che Guevara’s Foundation. He publishes 4 big volumes of his own Unpublished writings, from 1960 to 1980. The fifth is in preparation.
2010. He writes his second screenplay (Fahrenheit 151 or the return of Guy Debord) for a future realization as a film.
2011. He translates and edits the integral version of the Memoirs of a revolutionary by Victor Serge.
In May he takes part in the Festival internacional de Poesía in
2013. He publishes his edition (with his notes) of Machiavelli's Prince and organizes 2 public poetic readings as a representative of the World poetry movement in Italy.
He keeps writing regularly texts for the blog www.utopiarossa.blogspot.
BOOKS PUBLIHED (AS AN AUTOR)
1. The self-management’s theories, Jaca Book, Milano 1974 [
2. Workers’ strikes after ‘68, Jaca Book, Milano 1974
3. Peronism, Jaca Book, Milano
1975 [Roma 1997]
4. Problems of the Portuguese revolution, Controcorrente, Roma 1977
5. At the opposition in the Pci with Trotsky and Gramsci (edited by),
Controcorrente, Roma 1977 [Bolsena 2004]
6. Terrorism. History, concepts and methods, Newton Compton, Roma 1979
[1998, 2002]
7. History of Cuba, Edizioni
Associate, Roma 1987 [Frankfurt 1992]
8. Che Guevara. Utopia’s thinking and policy,
Edizioni Associate, Roma 1987 [5th ed. 1994] [Frankfurt
1987] [in Spanish, Tafalla 8 editions from 1992] [Buenos Aires 2004]
9. Selected writings of Che Guevara (edited by), [Editori Riuniti,
Roma 1988], Erre emme, Roma 1993
10. Knowing Che (edited by), Datanews, Roma 1988
11. Frankenstein. From
the romantic myth at the origins of Science fiction, Junius , Hamburg
1989 [Roma 1991]
12. Fourier and the societary utopia, Erre emme, Roma 1989
13. The lake’s secret [novel], Erre emme, Roma 1990, 2002 [Frankfurt
1989] [La Habana 1996]
14. Trotsky and the revolutionary reason, Erre emme, Roma 1990, 2004
15. Etruscan story
[novel], Erre emme, Roma 1993 [in Spanish, La Habana 1996]
16. Guevara para
hoy (edited by), Roma/Matanzas (Cuba) 1994
17. Ernesto Che Guevara. Man,
comrade, friend... (documentary of 105 minutes in
Vhs/Dvd + book), Roma 1994 [La Habana 1994, México 1995] [Karlsruhe 1997; in
French, in Greek]
18. The last of the Catilinarians [novel], Erre emme, Roma 1995
19. Che Guevara. The man, from myth to history, Editori Riuniti, Roma
1997
20. Che Guevara in CD-Rom, Infoland/Erre emme, Pescara 1997
21. The ‘68. How and why, Bolsena 1998
22. Hugo Chávez between Bolívar and Porto
Alegre , Bolsena 2005
23. Within and beyond the ’60s (1960-1974), Bolsena 2005 (I vol. of
«Unpublished writings»)
24. Centrism sui generis (1971-1979), Bolsena 2006 (II vol. of
«Unpublished writings»)
25. The ’77 and surroundings (1975-1978), Bolsena 2007 (III vol. of
«Unpublished writings»)
26. The Moro’s kidnapping and the downfall of the left (1978-1980), Bolsena 2007
(IV vol. of «Unpublished writings»)
27. The Red forks. The subcast of the «radical left» (edited by),
Bolsena 2007
28. The false lefts (edited by), Bolsena 2008
29. Multiverse. Half a century of poems, Bolsena 2012
30. History of music (an Outline), Bolsena 2014
30. History of music (an Outline), Bolsena 2014
31. From lead to tin (1980-2011), Bolsena 2014 (V vol. of «Unpublished writings»)
32. Lenin and the Russian Antirevolution, Bolsena 2018
33. Da Cosio nasce cosa… (edited by), Bolsena 2019
34. Jesus and his «cousins», Bolsena 2019
35. The Etruscan Volsinii in Greek and Latin sources, Bolsena 2020
Regular collaboration (from 2010)
with the blog www.utopiarossa.blogspot.com.