The later memoirs of a West of Scotland 'baby-boomer'
Stuart Christie was released from a Spanish prison in September 1967, having served over three years of a 20-year sentence for his part in an anarchist plot to assassinate General Franco, the last of the Axis dictators. He came back to a world of social and industrial turbulence, growing anger at America’s war in Vietnam, dissatisfaction with parliamentary government and political parties, and fermenting ideas about justice, direct democracy and extra-parliamentary organisation. It was a time when revolutionary change seemed both morally imperative and achievable.
This third volume of Christie’s memoirs provides the historical and political context for the international anti-Franco resistance of the anarchist ‘First of May Group’, from 1967 to the dictator’s death in 1975. It is a first-hand account — by someone accused but acquitted — of the campaign of anti-state and anti-capitalist bombings by diverse groups of libertarian militants.
