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Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan anarchist and member of the anticapitalist group MIL, was executed by garrote vil in 1974, one of the last victims of the Franco regime. Together with his comrades, he dedicated his life to the struggle against the fascist dictatorship and supported the wildcat strike movement that was sweeping Spain at the time. Since then, democrats and nationalists have tried to co-opt his memory, but his struggle was against capitalism and oppression in all its forms. This book tells the story of his life and death, in the words of his sisters, his friends, his comrades, and in his own words, while also relating the story of a movement that brought down the world's longest lasting fascist dictatorship.

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Ricard de Vargas Golarons, member of the armed anticapitalist groups MIL and OLLA, was imprisoned in Spain at the end of the Franco dictatorship. Upon his release, he became a movement historian, preserving the memory of generations of struggle against oppression and for human dignity. While leftwing parties struck a deal with the fascists upon Franco's death, creating a democracy that redressed none of the power imbalances nor wrongs after forty years of fascist rule, Ricard's has been an important voice for remembering those who dedicated their lives to fighting against the dictatorship, and preserving the dreams they were actually fighting for. Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist originally from Virginia. He is the author of Worshiping Power, How Nonviolence Protects the State, and Consensus, among other works.

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