Stuart Christie (1946 - 2020)
Wed Jul 10, 1946
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Stuart Christie, born on this day in 1946, was a Scottish anarchist activist, writer, and publisher. At the age of eighteen, Christie attempted to assassinate Spanish fascist Francisco Franco, serving three years in prison before being released.
Encouraged by local radicals in the United Kingdom, Christie left for Spain at the age of eighteen to assassinate Franco. Upon arriving, Christie was arrested while carrying explosives. Charged with “banditry and terrorism”, he served three years of a twenty year sentence before international pressure won him an early release.
Christie would go on to found the Cienfuegos Press publishing house, serve as the first editor of the anarchist newspaper Black Flag, and establish the online Anarchist Film Channel, which hosts films and documentaries with anarchist and libertarian socialist themes. In 2004, an updated Christie autobiography was released, titled “Granny Made Me an Anarchist”.
- Date: 1946-07-10
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, tahriricn.wordpress.com, theanarchistlibrary.org.
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That seems like a surprisingly short incarceration.
He was internationally bailed. In parallel, Basque innocents were murdered alongside anyone having anything related to actual terrorists, so it wasn’t the government being lenient.