Tag Archives: Spain
The Stuart Christie Case
Originally appeared in Freedom August 29th 1964 Stuart Christie, a member of the Glasgow Federation of Anarchists and the Scottish Committee of 100, was arrested in Madrid on Tuesday the 11th August. This information was not released to the British consulate by the Spanish authorities until the following Saturday. Stuart’s mother, in Scotland, was informed [...]
Assassins from Spain’s Dirty War go to court over violent drug offences
Recently-arrested drug traffickers in Spain have been connected to state sponsored death squads from the 1980s – and activists say the story is being buried by national media outlets.Earlier this year seven allegedly heavily-armed cocaine traffickers were detained in a Madrid-based operation which saw widespread coverage from mainstream sources. However links between several of the [...]
Workers Against War
Snippets of organised workers’ opposition to the war on Iraq, roundly ignored by the mainstream media. Italy: A one-day general strike one 2nd April, 2003 was organised entirely by the rank-and-file ‘base’ unions and anarchosyndicalist USI. Despite the fact the traditional unions did not back the action, one million workers struck and 250,000 demonstrated across [...]
