On 25 September 1973 the anarchist Salvador Puig Antich is caught in a trap set up by the
Guardia Civil, the police of the Franco regime. The weapon in hand, he tries to defend
itself. It will be tortured, Withers, and died Saturday, March 2, 1974. Spanish fascism
killed once more, once too. ---- Young libertarian, born in May 1948 in Barcelona, he
would be 26 years old and was active in the ranks of the Iberian Liberation Movement, the
MIL, "support group for radical struggles of revolutionary workers' movement in
Barcelona." ---- We can read in the second volume of memoirs Jann-Marc Rouillan, Mourning
innocence: one day in September 1973 , an account of recent weeks MIL marked by death and
imprisonment of their comrades Jos? Luis Pons Llobet and Oriol Sole Sugranyes.
In 1974, France is the revolutionary anarchist organization, ORA, ancestor Alternative
libertarian, which is at the forefront alongside jailed ex-MIL.
We provide below two articles published in the Libertarian Communist press of the time,
and the booklet The Truth About imprisoned Barcelona published by the ORA [ 1 ] and
displays solidarity edited then [ Issue of Placard.ficedl.info website .]].
A personal recollection
In 2005, a fellow Libertarian Alternative, formerly of the ORA, testified: "I'll always
remember the night we expected the award for Puig Antich. He risked the withers. Old CNT
we had copiously explained what the torment of the withers.
There was a vigil Rue des Vignoles, to await the verdict of the trial. And when the death
sentence was pronounced - I'll always remember - all those old Spaniards were standing
stiff, silent, with tears flowing. The atmosphere was electric. At this time, a CNT
released reserve an old typewriter and said: "This one fellow, she was never numbered."
You could type a press release without traceability.
Everything was said. In the days that followed, in retaliation for the execution of Puig
Antich, ORA organized attacks against Spanish interests in France - you can tell this
because there are prescription. And therefore, the same night, five Spanish banks soared
to Paris. The operation had been mounted, and the ORA was never worried. "
FN welcomes Franco
It might also be recalled that this year, a party just created, the FN Jean-Marie Le Pen,
crying with wolves and welcomes the fascist Franco regime for its "severity".
This is the same FN, which today maintains links with the Spanish Falange fascist group
still active, as evidenced by the presence in the party BBR 2006 a Phalangist stand and
the parade of delegation at the event frontist May 1, 2008.
Puig Antich died in March 1974.
Forty years later, the heirs of his killers parading in the streets and on TV trays. The
brown plague beyond the ballot box. We, we, the heirs of the struggles and battles of
Salvador Puig Antich. Then as now, behind fascism, lies the capital, yesterday as today,
no pasardn !
Theo Rival (AL Orleans)
One of the Libertarian Front of March 1974
Top left, the A is marked with a black band in mourning.
FASCISM IS DEATH: DEATH TO FASCISM
Statement published in Libertarian Front of the class struggle , revolutionary anarchist
newspaper Organization (ARO) in his No. 32 March 1974
"Today, Saturday, March 2, at 9:40 am in the courtyard of the provincial prison of
Barcelona, the young Catalan anarchist activist, Comrade Salvador Puig Antich was foully
murdered by the fascists who withers jackals for over thirty years exercise their bloody
terrorism against the Spanish people.
Spain, bloodied by the criminal Franco and his clique assassin and fascist executioners,
today mourns another victim, a new truncated life. This horrible crime and wild by the
baseness of his criminal motivation, by the will of terror with which he hopes
unnecessarily intimidate all those who struggle for freedom and dignity of the Spanish
people, and the bestial sadism with which it was prepared, implemented and installed
without even considering the most basic standards of bourgeois "legality", including its
Francoist version [...] and, in the end, knowingly and executed against the vast and
vigorous indignation of a Much of the Spanish people and international public opinion,
crime is the most obvious proof that our country's civil war continues, between freedom
and oppression, there is no compromise, but only a total war, until the destruction of the
last stone of the great Franco prison. [...]
Curses, pain, tears, blood and rage of the people will eventually kill the tyrants. They
are wrong murderers and bloody mummy who inspires them, if they hope to enjoy the
sacrifice of Comrade Puig Antich for their survival strategy. They are mistaken if they
have intimidated with the murder, those who struggle against tyranny and exploitation.
[...] They finally wrong, if these fragile illusions, they founded the hope of putting an
end to the growing revolutionary consciousness of the exploited and oppressed, and the
continuing radicalization of the working class and popular struggles for freedom and
survival. [...]
And as for you, comrade Puig Antich, we want to tell you only that the mention of your
name will be for us every moment of our struggle, a powerful stimulant for an approach
will be destroyed when fascism and which will be realized these ideas were yours and which
are ours. "
Anarcho-syndicalist "Acci?n directa", March 2, 1974
PUIG ANTICH MURDERED BY THE SPANISH STATE
Article published in The Postman freed , bulletin workers ORA PTT in its No. 2 March 1974
"On Saturday, March 2 at 9:40 am, our comrade Puig Antich was Withers by the Spanish
state. For this murder, Franco tries to break the revolutionary movement. The solidarity
movement that developed in Spain for activists ex-MIL (Iberian Liberation Movement) shows
that the fight against the Spanish capitalism is not a minority did.
The so-called "liberalization" reveals its true face and it is clear that today the
Spanish State is the same as murdering to Hitler and Mussolini sides. With this state that
the French state has a special relationship. [...]
It is also because he was an anarchist and because of the practice of MIL Puig Antich died
in an almost general indifference. It is now time to send telegrams of protest, to marches
and press crying foul. This is before we had to act.
Two other activists of the former MIL, Jos? Luis Llobet and Oriol Sole, may also the death
penalty. It's too late to get up against the murder of Puig Antich, it is now to save his
comrades. We call on all workers to mobilize to prevent another murder. Saving Jos? Luis
Pons Llobet and Oriol Sugranyes! Against fascism: class war! "
Poster published by the ORA
LIBERTARIAN SPAIN: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE JAILED EX-MIL
Brochure published by the ORA (click image to start the download):
[ 1 ] gleaned on the site Mil-gac.info .http://www.mil-gac.info/
AL Orleans
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