Stuart Christie: 31 books
GENERAL FRANCO MADE ME A TERRORIST
(The interesting years abroad of a West of Scotland ‘Baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
On the last day of July 1964 Stuart Christie, a newly-turned 18-year-old Glaswegian anarchist, left London for Paris and Madrid on a mission whose objective was to kill the last of the Axis dictators — General Francisco Franco. This was to be the last of at least 30 attempts on the fascist leader’s...
MY GRANNY MADE ME AN ANARCHIST
The Christie File: part 1, 1946–1964 (The cultural and political formation of a west of Scotland ‘baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
“Stuart Christie's granny might well disagree, given the chance, but her qualities of honesty and self-respect in a hard life were part of his development from flash Glaswegian teenager — the haircut at 15 is terrific — to the 18-year old who sets off to Spain at the end of the book as part...
Franco me hizo terrorista
Memorias del anarquista que intentó matar al dictator
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
De las calles de Glasgow a las cárceles de la España fascista, es éste el fascinante testimonio personal de un hombre que se enfrenta a los dilemas de una vida dedicada a la libertad. NOAM CHOMSKY
En el verano de 1964 y con dieciocho años recién cumplidos,...
WE, THE ANARCHISTS
A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group...
The Man Who Killed Durruti
With a postscript on Buenaventura Durruti by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Just after midday on 19 November 1936, Buenaventura Durruti – the revolutionary and Spanish Civil War leader – set out for the Clinical Hospital in Madrid, the scene of serious fighting with Franco’s Moorish troops. Besides his driver Julio Graves, he was accompanied by three other men: Miguel...
El Movimiento Libertario Español
Pasado, presente y futuro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2015
El primer imperativo que nos impusimos fue el de evitar que nuestro conjunto tuviera un carácter arqueológico. Caer en la tentación arqueológica era fácil. Abordar la historia reciente del anarquismo español, tratar de la práctica actual de sus organizaciones,...
Edward Heath Made Me Angry
(The later memoirs of a West of Scotland ‘baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
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...
¡Pistoleros! The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg
Books I-III: 1918-1924 (and 1976-1977).
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
“¡PISTOLEROS! is the story of twentieth century anarchism as witnessed by McHarg, a Glaswegian anarchist engineer who became embroiled in Spanish revolutionary politics at the end of the First World War. Curiously echoing the editor Christie’s own life fifty years later, the youthful and naïve...
by Stuart Christie, Albert Meltzer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Las compuertas que contienen las caudalosas aguas de la anarquía se están resquebrajando. Los liberales aligerarían la presión desviando parte de la corriente; los conservadores apuntalarían diques; los totalitarios construirían una presa todavía más...
THE ANGRY BRIGADE
A History of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
'You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.'
— Angry Brigade, communiqué 8.
Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqués accompanied the actions,...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Stuart Christie looks at the history and power base of the ‘Brotherhood’— the West’s largest secret society. If secrecy is to be considered a factor in British politics and commerce then without doubt Freemasonry is one of its principal vehicles. Freemasonry is the largest semi-covert organisation...
Building Utopia
The Spanish Revolution 1936-1937
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Within the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements there were three distinct points of view on the question of war and revolution. The first, probably the majority view, was that the war would be over in a matter of weeks, after all, a few days had been enough to rout the army in Barcelona...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Some thoughts on Niccolò Machiavelli, 'The Prince' and 'The Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius'.
by Stuart Christie, Albert Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Back in print and featuring a new foreword by the authors, this polemic approaches the subject of anarchism in relation to class struggle. It presents an argument against class-based society and hierarchy and advocates for a free and equal society based on individual dignity and merit. Drawing from...