Miguel Arcángel Roscigna

Miguel Arcángel Roscigna (1891–1936) was a blacksmith, politician, fugitive, and a militant Argentine anarchist^[1] who was notable for his activity in Argentine expropriative anarchism.

Miguel Arcángel Roscigna
Born	1891 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Disappeared	1936
Movement	Anarchism Expropriative anarchism
Partner	Victoria Romano

Roscigna became a member of political party Unión de Sindicatos Argentinos, (Union of Argentine Syndicates) and had deemed current actions as insufficient for the release of prisoners, Roscigna decided towards a more violent approach, expropriative anarchism. In November 1918 he traveled to the Ushuaia Prison where Simon Radowitzky was serving his sentence. Although Radowitzky managed to escape initially, he was later captured and returned to prison.^[2]

Roscigna was wanted for crimes and had fled Argentina. Roscigna was later sent to prison in 1927 after being captured. After Roscigna was released from prison, he disappeared in 1936.^[3]

See also

• Illegalism
• List of people who disappeared
• Severino Di Giovanni

References

1. Durruti in the Spanish Revolution ISBN 978-0-914-15620-8 p. 85
2. The Anarchist Expropriators: Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hoods. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-224-6.
3. "A History of Expropriative Anarchism". theanarchistlibrary.org. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2021.

Further reading

• Bayer, Osvaldo (2015). The Anarchist Expropriators: Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hoods. Translated by Sharkey, Paul. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-224-6.
• Caimari, Lila (December 6, 2016). While the City Sleeps: A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón (Volume 2) (Violence in Latin American History). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28944-4.