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CURRICULUM VITAE OF ROBERTO MASSARI

1946. Roberto Massari is born in Rome (nephew of a Fosse Ardeatines martyr).
1963-1964. He attends the last year of High School in Denver (Colorado, Usa) with a scholarship of the American Field Service.
1965. He finishes the High School in Italy (at Miami classic lyceum).
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 India’s culture and language.
1968. He’s one of the animators of the students movement in Rome.
He lives six months in Cuba (from July to December), guest of the Cuban government. He visits the principal installations, both economic and cultural, of the Cuban revolution. He writes the book on the History of Cuba (that will be published in 1987). Here starts his great friendship with Hilda Gadea (Peruvian, first wife of Che and Hildita’s mother).
1969. Back to Italy, he directs an intervention sector in some factory struggles of the time.(Fatme, Voxon, Sacet). He graduates in Philosophy at the University of Rome with a sociological thesis on Cuba (spokesman Franco Ferrarotti). Hilda Gadea lives some months in his house in Rome and together they organize a committee for Peruvian political prisoners (in relationship with Mir). Massari operates as point of reference for many Latin American movements. In particular he does so for the Faln of Venezuela, directed by Douglas Bravo. (See the credential of January 1970 that the Faln representation in Italy and Europe entrusts him).
1969-1971. He works for two years as a sociologist in Naples – with Alessandro Pizzorno – with a scholarship of the Italian Cnr. He Works in particular on the Southern question and on the Messianic movements.
1971-1972. He gains a scholarship for the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes and he moves to Paris where he follows the course of Industrial sociology with Alain Touraine. In France he is member of the Ligue communiste (French section of the Fourth International). He suscribes to the Faculty of Sociology in Trento.
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 France. Currently he’s still an active member of this association (whom head office is in Besançon since a few years) and also of the editorial staff of the Cahiers Charles Fourier.
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 University of Trento, with a thesis on The self-management’s theories (published as a book in 1974).
In summer he spends a long period in Argentina, to study Peronism and the process started with the return of Perón (He writes the book on Peronism which will be published in 1975).
1973-75. He works two years in Paris, in the Faculty of Science of Jussieu, employed by the French Cnrs and participates in a research on the new forms of factory’s struggles at European level. He’s member of the editorial staff of the review Autogestion.
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 Italy and in other European countries. He founds an international organization (the Marxist revolutionary faction [Fmr]), which is present in Italy, Germany, Austria, France and Portugal (with relations in England). This organization publishes books and reviews in vrious languages and is politically active since 1980.
1974-75. He takes part in the Revolution of  «Capitães» in Portugal and writes the book Problems of the Portuguese revolution (published in 1976).
1976. He comes back from France to Italy and, after a year of work in the faculty of Sociology in Rome (with Franco Ferrarotti), he lefts the university career by his own choice.
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 Italy.
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 Cuba by the publishing house Arte y literatura. From the first novel he extracted a screenplay.
1984. After five years of classes he graduates at the School of visual arts (the «S. Giacomo») of the Rome municipality. His paintings are present in some exhibitions (the love for painting goes on).
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 Rome. With his companion and Liben’s mother – Antonella Marazzi – he will occupy an apartment together with this Movement (the «Bastogi» of Primavalle-Boccea).
1987. He publishes his main book on Che: Che Guevara. Utopia’s thinking and policy (many editions in Italy and abroad). Other books and materials on Che (included a CD-ROM) will follow. He translates into Italian many of the main works of Che and he’s generally considered the main scholar on Che in Italy (and in Europe). The activity of scientific disclosure on Guevara’s work brings him to travel a lot also in Latin America.
On the theme of Che he collaborates happily for some years with Cuba, providing advices to the Institute of book in Havana, taking part in scientific meetings and publishing co-editions with the Editora Política and others Cuban publishing houses.
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 Perugia’s Conservatory.
1994. He realizes a documentary film of 105 min. (Ernesto Che Guevara. Man, comrade, friend…) which will sold over 30.000 copies in Italy, with editions in German, Spanish, French, Greek and Portuguese.
1996. He visits two times the Zapatista movement at La Realidad, in Chiapas. In the first visit (the Intergalactic meeting convened by Marcos in 1996), he integrates in the Venezuelan delegation together with Douglas Bravo and other old comrades of Faln.
He leaves Rome and move to the countryside, at Bolsena’s lake.
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 Italy and abroad – which has published six books up to now and which is happily experiencing entirely new methods of doing politics.
2004. Laris, his second son is born.
In December he takes part at the intellectuals’ meeting «In defense of humanity» in Caracas. At the return he writes a book con the Venezuela of Chávez.
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.
2012. In April he exposes his most recent paintings in a personal and retrospective exhibition at the library Le Sorgenti of Bolsena.
In May he takes part in the Festival internacional de Poesía in Havana, after having published a book (Multiversi) with the poems written from 1962 to 2012.
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.com.

BOOKS PUBLIHED (AS AN AUTOR)

1. The self-management’s theories, Jaca Book, Milano 1974 [Bilbao 1975]

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

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.