Neno Vasco ((1878-05-09)May 9, 1878 – (1920-09-15)September 15, 1920) was a poet, lawyer, journalist, anarchist, writer, and ardent revolutionary syndicalist activist born in Penafiel, Portugal.

[1] At the end of 1901 he returned to Brazil[2] where he quickly established contact with Italian anarchists through which he learned of the work of Errico Malatesta, who from that moment on exerted a profound influence on his thought.

[1] In the city of São Paulo, in 1902, he began to edit the Amigo do Povo newspaper[3] together with Benjamim Mota, Oreste Ristori, Giulio Sorelli, Tobia Boni, Ângelo Bandoni, Gigi Damiani and Ricardo Gonçalves.

Therefore, the workers' organization must "live independently of any political party or doctrinal grouping" to emphasize the revolutionary character, "resistance must be the only union function".

[5] In some paragraphs of this book, the author addresses mutualism and cooperatives, stating that "they serve and facilitate capitalist exploitation, becoming factors of resignation and passivity".

[5] For Neno, these organizations can be even more harmful than corporatism, because "it naturally tends towards the adaptation of the wage earner to the bourgeois regime, even favoring submission to the conditions imposed by the employers".