“Written paper represents a fundamental element, both for revolutionary movements and for individualities determined to act. Historical experiences of struggle and armed agitation have always equipped themselves with pamphlets, libraries, mimeographs and whatever else was necessary to produce autonomously the material to be diffused. The times? Long. The places? Often cramped. People? Reliable, before being specialized or computerized militants. It is in the structuring of these physicalities that the threads of the actions are recomposed, that the enemy is identified, that it is possible to better establish where to strike him, anticipating and unmasking his next moves” (from the introductory note).
“Revolutionaries or gangsters? A title that says it all. Formulated at the time in a critical manner towards those European ‘revolutionaries’ who, in the years preceding Puig Antich’s death, had done their best to obfuscate the innovative energy that the MIL–GAC (Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación – Grupos Autonomos de Combate) was bringing to the post-1968 European revolutionary panorama.
Once Puig Antich died, these ‘revolutionaries’ realised that a ‘martyr’ could be useful to their frivolous revolutionarism to give greater impetus to the anti-Francoist and democratic discourse. A discourse that the MIL had always opposed, never considering itself ‘anti-Franco’ but anti-capitalist. […].
To place in the right historical context the birth of the MIL, we have to go to a distant time, when the old Sten of the anarchist guerrilla Sabaté, at his death, changed hands and ended up materially at the disposal of a group of young people of Toulouse belonging to the anarchist group ‘Long live the commune’ […]” (from the preface of Alfredo Cospito).
“Terrorism and sabotage are weapons currently usable by every revolutionary, whether by word or deed. Organisation is the organisation of tasks: it is in this sense that grassroots groups unite for action.
It can be concluded that organisation, politics, militantism, moralism, martyrs, acronyms and labels are now part of the old world.
Everyone IS because he DOES” (October 1973).
Inside the book:
— An Introductory Note
— Preface
— Class War in Spain: 1973. Gangsters or Revolutionaries?
— Appendix
La guerra di classe in Spagna: 1973 Gangsters o rivoluzionari? [“Class War in Spain: 1973 Gangsters or Revolutionaries?“]
First edition, may 2021. 88 pages.
Preface by Alfredo Cospito.
Co-edition of:
Archivio di Documentazione “Franco Di Gioia” – Cosenza
Biblioteca dello Spazio Anarchico “Lunanera” – Cosenza
Editziones Sa Kàvuna – Sardigna
Edizioni Monte Bove – Spoleto
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