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The Franco dictatorship in Spain was famously beset by armed revolutionary groups, inheritors of the legacy of Spanish anarchism that Franco had crushed. Less well-known are the Grupos Autonomos (Autonomous Groups) active during Spain's transition to 'democracy,' a transition set in motion and overseen by the powerful elites of the Franco regime and intended to maintain existing social and economic relations. As the country reorganized under a veneer of a parliamentary monarchy, resistance spread in the form of small autonomous bands of armed rebels who sought a more free and egalitarian future for Spain. Agitated is the tale of those groups. It brings alive the young people who comprised them, detailing their struggle against the faux democracy of authoritarian capitalism and the vibrant lives they lived: the counterculture they formed, their relations with workers, life underground and, of course, the repression they suffered.

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Joni D. was born in Barcelona in 1968. He has written on the early punk movement in Spain as well as a trilogy of novels about the Spanish resistance to the dictatorship, the punk and autonomous movements, and the global struggle for freedom.

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