In memory of Giovanni Stiffoni (1974-2024)

From Umanità Nova
November 26, 2024

A historian in love with Rio and Anarchy

We join the family and comrades of Rio de Janeiro in mourning the premature and sudden passing of Giovanni Stiffoni on November 6, 2024 at the age of fifty. Originally from Milan and a citizen of the world, Giovanni was a fervent anarchist activist, researcher and historian of refined qualities, a free-spirited man, traveler and cheerful storyteller, who found in Rio a place where he felt at home in the last ten years of his life.

Joan Busquets Vergés, the last Catalan Maquis

From Memoria Libertaria
November 30, 2024

During this November, Joan Busquets, “El Senzill” visited the Spanish State to present his claim as a victim of Francoism.

In this post you can find the chronicle of the event and the recording at the FAL (Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo) on the 19th, the press conference in Barcelona, and a conversation between him and the historian and researcher Dolors Marín.

Report on activities during the Week Against Non-Payment of Wages

From Priama akcia
December 2, 2024

Report on activities during the International Week Against Non-Payment of Wages

In the third week of October, we have been highlighting the phenomenon of non-payment of wages for several years. This year, member sections and organizations close to the International Workers' Association (MAP) organized perhaps the most diverse forms of activities to date between October 14-20 - public meetings, pickets, discussion meetings and workshops, but also hanging banners, distributing thematic publications, stickers and posters in the streets, or sharing information about non-payment of wages in the online space.

Spain overturns death sentence against anarchist Puig Antich

From Catalan News

Spain overturns Francoist death sentence against anarchist Puig Antich after 50 years

The 25-year-old was the last prisoner executed by garrote – a device that strangles the victim - in 1974

The Spanish government has overturned the Francoist sentence that condemned the anarchist Salvador Puig Antich to death 50 years ago.

Valencian anarchist 'Jipy,' founder of the legendary Skaparàpid, dies

From El Punt Avui
September 16, 2024

Jesús Arteaga was one of the core members of the long-remembered Kasal Popular de València.

The libertarian left of Catalonia has lost one of its leaders. The well-known activist and charismatic musician Jesús Arteaga (Jipy) died on Friday, as confirmed by one of the organizations in which he collaborated, the CGT union in Valencia. He also published the book Jóvenes y menores en la diana (Embruecimiento social y televisión), where he analyzed the control of young people through television.

Spain: Salamanca Anarchist Bookfair, Aug 9-10

From Encuentro Del Libro Anarquista de Salamanca (facebook)
June 28, 2024

The Salamanca Anarchist Bookfair continues, this will be the sixteenth edition since its inception in 2008. We remain in the work of building a space of action and theory that little by little has been consolidated within the annual network of book fairs that are organized in different geographical locations.

The days scheduled for this edition will be Friday, August 9, and Saturday, August 10, in Salamanca.

From a Deep Rage that is Inflamed

From Informativo Anarquista, Via Abolition Media

Statement on Health of Anarchist Prisoner Amadeu Casellas

At the beginning of this month they sent us a very disturbing alert that caught us all by surprise. Amadeu Casellas was in a coma in the ICU. Fifteen days earlier, Amadeu made a call to tell us that he had felt ill and that, from prison, he left to go to the hospital, being admitted until the weekend.

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