Spain

The Valencia Anarchist Bookfair is Back

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This year will be the twenty-first edition and will take place from March 27 to April 2, 2023 in Valencia, Spain. There will be a lot of activities in different spaces and places in the city and on the weekend of April 1 and 2, book stalls can be set up in Plaça del Carme.

Carlos Saura: An Intrepid, Curious, & Music-loving Filmmaker

From Le Monde Libertarie
by Daniel Pinos
February 19, 2023

On Friday February 10, Carlos Saura, the Aragonese director, died at the age of 91.

Carlos Saura joined Buñuel, Berlanga and Bardem, the greatest Spanish filmmakers of our time. Together with his illustrious friends, he created the essence of Spanish cinema during the most difficult period of its recent history, the Franco dictatorship and the transition.

Second undercover police officer spying on Barcelona activists unmasked

From Statewatch
February 2, 2023

An officer of the Spanish National Police Corps infiltrated activist groups in Barcelona over a three-year period, joining the social centre La Cinétika in 2020 and initiating sexual relationships with women that facilitated his participation in assemblies, events and demonstrations.

Taking Notes: Old Age, Pandemic, and the Anarchist Movement

From Todo Por Hacer, English translation by Anarchist News

By Juan Cruz López

[T]he silence of the anarchist militancy [...] in the face of the murder of thousands of elderly men and women neglected in their residences, victims of the infamous sanitary protocols and the gerontocidal strategy adopted by the different administrations to resolve the situation of stressed health resources, speaks clearly of how ageism has permeated our belief system, showing the insufficiency of our social analysis and evidencing the narrowness, not only of our political autonomy, but of our ability to intervene in a situation of multifactorial crisis (something that, at the very least, should make us rethink the essentialist strategies that lead to the isolation of our movement and its members).

Jose Morato (1929-2022)

From Mémoire Libertaire
December 11, 2022

This tribute to the recently deceased companion is very brief, but I am sure that he would still find it too long, because he was the opposite of those who like to show off and put themselves forward. His way of being placed him rather in the wake of those who make a point of being discreetly and constantly present and active throughout the inexhaustible march of the libertarian movement.

XXVI ANTI-PRISON MARCH, CATALUNYA

MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A PRISON IN FLAMES, IS THE PRISON THAT IS NEVER BUILT. DOWN WITH ALL CAGES

From Act for Freedom Now!

Account from some anarchists who joined from out of town last saturday:

Shouting the whole way with passion and rage, 80 of us marched for over hour out of the town of Martorell, to the two prisons of Brians in the Catalan countryside. With chants, music and fireworks, we let the people held captive know they’re not forgotten, despite all the state’s intentions to isolate them. And through the walls and layers upon layers of fences, they called and whistled back.

Spain: Interview with the comrade Gabriel Pombo Da Silva

Via Anarquía, English translation by Anarchist News

A NOTE FROM ANARQUÍA: The following interview of our comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva was carried out on the past December 12. This conversation was granted to a media outlet with which we have no affinity, yet it's necessary to give visibility to the situation our comrades are living in prison. All the strength and solidarity to our comrade Gabriel. Health and Anarchy!

Pepe Cuevas (1951–2022)

News of the death of a CNT member who was convicted in the past in the police-instigated "Scala case".

At the age of 71, José Cuevas Casado, who made an indelible mark in the history of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union CNT in connection with the trial known as the Scala case, at the end of which he was sentenced to a long stay in prison, along with others, died.

Anarchists in the CNT Congress

"There's even bald people in the CNT." [Picture note in the original text]

From A las barricadas by Acratosaurio rex, English translation by Anarchist News

I think anarchists, before resorting to gathering for the sake of gathering, which is like an ethnic and very prehistoric thing (searching for anarchists just because they’re anarchists), should make an analysis of their local reality, look for a concrete objective (susceptible to broadening and modifying), and based on that, look for people with common interests to launch the attack.

Solidarity from Madrid w/ Alfredo Cospito & Anarchist Prisoners

From Anarquía

We compile in a brief note a series of activities and signs of solidarity with the struggle of the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito against the solitary confinement regime, which is legislated in Italy through article 41bis, as well as with Anna, Ivan, Juan, Toby… who intermittently have been joining the hunger strike from different European prisons. Alfredo has been on hunger strike since October 20.

Eviction of CSO La Astilla (Barcelona)

With La Astilla in our hearts!

Translation of the leaflet circulated last night (1-12-22) in the post-eviction demonstration for the CSO Astilla in L'Hospitalet de LLobregat (Barcelona, Spain) La Astilla was an important anarchist Squatted Social Center that held countless concerts, talks, solidarity events and workshops during the last 13 years.
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Today they have evicted the Squatted Social Center La Astilla. This is the end of a project that began in March of 2009, when a group of people decided to squat a warehouse in Hospitalet to start a self-managed project that would respond to their concerns.

New Anarchist Library in Valencia, Spain

You just cannot keep a good idea down...
by Dave Downes
https://m.facebook.com/groups/anarchisminthespanishcivilwar/permalink/84...

Saturday 26th November, saw the opening of yet another anarchist library; La Biblioteca Lucia Sánchez Soarnil at the Meme Social Centre, Benimaclet, Valencia. Around 90 people attended and a talk/discussion about this amazing class-warrior, was followed by food and music.

‘Adieu’ Janín, the last Cantabrian in Parisian exile

Alejandro Arribas Jimeno, Intellectual from Laredo

More than 40 years ago I met Alejandro Arribas Jimeno, Janín. Trained pharmacist. At the beginning of the 1960s, he met a French woman, Denise, and went with her to Paris where he found his job as an expert translator at the 'Cour d'appel' in Paris, and professor at the Higher School of Interpreters and Translators of the University from Paris Dauphine.

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