Salvador Puig Antich: Autonomous Workers and Anticapitalist Guerrillas in Francoist Spain (Gelderloos Peter)(Paperback)

The name Salvador Puig Antich and the events surrounding the so-called Transition from fascism are famous within Spain, but largely unknown elsewhere. This collection, originally published in Catalan on the forty-fifth anniversary of Puig Antich's execution, remedies that. In the early 1970s, Salvador Puig Antich of the Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL) was engaged in a fight to the death with Franco's brutal fascist dictatorship over the future of Spain. They expropriated banks and smuggled clandestine literature in support of the growing movement of wildcat workers' strikes. In 1974, the Franco regime garroted Puig Antich--literally strangled him to death. The charge was for shooting a policeman during his arrest, the details of which were contested. Puig Antich's case became a cause c l bre internationally. This book makes sense of his life and death by placing them in
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