Photograph of Walter Morrison, community activist and ex-soldier
description: Walter Morrison, Glasgow 'Eskimo', community activist and former soldier who rejected war. Born 20 March 1924, died 6 February 6 2004 The milieu in which the anti-nuclear Scottish Committee of 100 flourished no longer exists, its activists having long since adopted other agendas. However, its brief flowering will always be associated with the dynamic figure of Walter Morrison, who seemingly at birth had signed up for life as a private extraordinaire in the Awkward Squad. Morrison, who died in his eightieth year, fought courageously against the wrongs in society, proudly wore the badges of non-violence and libertarian socialism, and spoke his mind fearlessly no matter where he was or in whose company. Angered by the Clydebank blitz in 1940, the 16-year-old Morrison lied about his age and joined the army. He wanted to fight fascism, but in less than a week, he found little difference between this enemy and the bullying attitudes and practices within the British army. From then on Morrison’s war was fought on two fronts. Considered a difficult case, he was shunted from the Royal Scots Guards to the Black Watch, then on to the Parachute Regiment. During a visit by King George VI, the king politely asked him how he was being treated, to which the good soldier Morrison replied: ‘Terrible.’ He was sent to India on the first available troop ship. Morrison’s pacifism grew from his army experiences in India. During the Gandhi demonstrations in 1942, the troops were briefed that they would be facing women and children protestors. The 18-year-old asked what they would be expected to do if they refused to halt. ‘Open fire,’ was the curt answer. Walter promptly stood up and said he would be the first to open fire: he would personally shoot any soldier who turned their gun on a woman or a child, and he would then shoot the officer who gave the order. His feet scarcely touched the ground on the way to the glasshouse. Morrison was placed in solitary confinement and singled out for s…
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George Williamson, 'Scots Against War' (SAW) and Secretary of the Scottish Committee of 100.
description: "Another of the many 'events' organised by the Scottish Committee of 100 in July 1963 was a two-month march from Glasgow to London via Dunfermline on the Firth of Forth, carrying a 24-foot long cardboard model of a Polaris rocket, which had been made in Josh Macrae’s basement. It was an anti-nuclear re-run of the Jarrow March of the 1930s. As a Glasgow police inspector drily observed to George Williamson, the organiser of the march, ‘Ah canny help but note that this march tae London is heading due north. Is therr somethin’ ahm missin’ here?’ Of the 35 people who started out, I believe only 5 completed the march all the way on foot, in early September. One of those was Bill Beveridge, but I can’t remember who the others were. George Williamson usually went ahead by bus (to organise accommodation and refreshments at the next stop; a feature of the trip, which was celebrated in a commemorative song at the time). ‘On the Glasgow march to London There were 24 of us Twenty-three were marching And George was on the bus.’ Personally, I didn’t make it beyond Falkirk, the first night’s stop, as I had to be back at work on the Monday. Our arrival in the town had been heralded by the press, and among those waiting to meet us were the local female ‘beatniks’, with beehive hairdos, stiletto heels, pencil skirts and black PVC shortie coats. On one occasion, in the autumn of 1963 I think it was, I went out to Hamilton to look for George for some reason to do with the 'Scots Against War'. George wasn’t at home; he had gone off to the Locarno dance hall that night in search of 'executive and cultural relief' from the organisational and emotional demands made on him by the Glasgow Committee of 100. George’s mum, Annie, a rather douce and proper West of Scotland lady who did not entirely approve of George’s activities, invited me in for a cup of tea and a chat. Apparently I made such an impression on her — one so young going on so seriously about Spain and Franco — she said ‘Dae ye no’…
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Glasgow Federation of Anarchists march to Ardnadam Pier
description: "Alex Howie (left) carrying the GFA banner with Ken Sutherland directly behind him holding something over his shoulder, but not sure who anyone else is in this pic, including the guy with the Beatles haircut carrying the right-hand banner pole." Stuart Christie, September 2013
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Stuart and comrades at Hyde Park
description: "Hyde Park Corner. Unfortunately, of the girls I can only remember Barbara's name. L2R: Ricky Cook, Barbara, and Ross Flett (with white mouse on his knee). Directly behind Ross is Ken Sutherland and me (SC) holding the SWF 'Strike Strategy' pamphlet we'd recently published." Stuart Christie, July 2011
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date: 1964
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Ross Flett smoking in Hornsey
description: "Ross Flett having a wee smoke before going out to work at Bassetts sweetie factory, keeping the 'Soor Ploom' machine up to speed (Photo: Ken Sutherland)" Stuart Christie, July 2011
creator: Stuart Christie, Ken Sutherland
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Robert ‘Bobby’ Lynn, Glasgow anarchist and community activist.
description: "Born in the Calton, in the heart of Glasgow, in 1924 Robert Lynn (about whom Matt McGinn wrote one of his wonderful songs — 'Bobby Lynn's Shebeen' — in Ross Street) was educated at St. Mungo's Academy. Leaving school at 14 years of age he took up a shipyard engineering apprenticeship in Yarrows and became actively involved in the class struggle to improve wages and conditions there - a battle that had to be fought and refought in ensuing years. During the war years he was swept up in the maelstrom of political activity in the British shipyard and engineering industries. In 1943 the Tyneside strike — which saw Jock Haston and Roy Tearso imprisoned — quickly spread to the Clyde where many shipyards, including Yarrows where 'Bobby' worked, were brought to a halt. During WWII, the influential shop stewards' committees were dominated by the Communist Party, but their policy of subordinating workers' interests to those of the Soviet Union drew a withering fire from anarchists, Trotskyists and other anti-Stalinist socialists alike, an experience that had a profound effect on Robert, and it was then he began to nurture Bakuninist ideas and the industrial strategy of syndicalism. In post-war Glasgow Robert's influence in shipbuilding became increasingly irritating to both employers and CP-led union officials, and he was "blacklisted" with the complicity of both. Unable to work he joined the Merchant Navy as an engineering officer and spent some years seeing the world and its peoples, devouring libraries and absorbing the ideas of syndicalism and Stirnerism (Max Stirner's Conscious Egoist). Returning to Glasgow in the early fifties he threw himself into politics, marriage and trade union activity and was an active member of the Glasgow Anarchist Group, which at the time consisted of Frank Leach, Jimmy Raeside and Eddie Shaw, well-respected names in local and international anarchist circles. As George Woodcock said: The Glasgow Anarchist Group is the only group in the world w…
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Robert 'Bobby' Lynn, Glasgow anarchist and community activist
description: "(Photo taken at one of 'Bobby's' mystery 'bus-runs'. It was that mysterious I can't remember where it was, not sure even if we knew at the time. Nor can I remember the name of the man on the left.) ROBERT ‘BOBBY’ LYNN from the Calton in Glasgow’s East End was an enigmatic figure whose looks belied his personality. He was a cherubic-faced, rosy-cheeked, curly-haired, small and dapper, generous and non-judgemental man with piercing and slightly hooded blue eyes. Bobby was in his late thirties when I first met him. He had been involved in the Glasgow anarchist group throughout the 1950s and had been its backbone since the departure of older activists who had kept an anarchist presence in Glasgow in the face of massive hostility from the Labour and Communist Parties throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s: resilient activists such as Frank Leach, Jimmy Raeside, Eddie Shaw, Willie McDougall, John T Caldwell, and Guy Aldred of the Strickland Press. Robert revelled in the street forums, which he called the University of Life. They certainly had their moments. I remember one exemplary SPGB graduate mounting the platform, drawing a ten-shilling note from his pocket and holding it dangling from his thumb and forefinger for a quarter of an hour or so while delivering a devastatingly witty attack on money. The audience of thirty or so were spellbound. There was not a single heckler, until he set fire to it. From what I remember, my first conversation with Bobby went something like the following; his was a line he used often in debates at the open workers’ forums in Renfrew Street and elsewhere. ‘But what about stealing?’ says I. ‘Nobody would steal’, says Robert, ‘because it would be a society of abundance. What would be the sense in stealing in such a society? Let’s take as an example man’s most precious material things. What would you say these were?’ ‘Air’, says I, ‘and water’. ‘Exactly’, says Robert, ‘and these are in abundance. Now how would you like to steal some air and s…
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Robert "Bobby" Lynn, Glasgow anarchist and community activist
description: "I'm told this might be Bobby Lynn, but not corroborated. It could be the 1958 Arden and All-Scotland Rent-Increase Strike demonstration." Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Robert "Bobby" Lynn and his wife
description: "Trawling through my digital shoebox I found this long forgotten photo of my old friend and comrade Robert 'Bobby' Lynn and, on his right, his wife Jean. It was clearly taken in the 'Barras' somewhere shortly before his death in 1996. Robert was immortalised in song by his close friend Matt McGinn, "Bobby Lynn's Shebeen" (an infamous Ross Street venue close to the Saracen's Head pub). Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the blonde lady on the left. This is my obituary for him in the Glasgow Herald: Robert Lynn, anarchist; born Calton, Glasgow, 1924, died August 16, 1996, Glasgow ROBERT Lynn has snuffed it. In the heart of Glasgow, the Calton - hundreds of people are genuinely mourning the loss of one of its best-loved sons. Born in the Calton in the East End of Glasgow in 1924, Robert went on to be educated at St Mungo's Academy. Leaving school at 14 years of age he took up an engineering apprenticeship in the shipyards. As a class-conscious teenager he was swept up in the maelstrom of political activity of the war years in the British shipyard and engineering industries. In 1943 the strike on Tyneside, which saw Jock Hasten and Roy Tearso imprisoned, quickly spread to the Clyde where many shipyards were brought to a halt. Robert worked in Yarrows as an apprentice and became actively involved in the struggle for better wages and conditions - a battle that had to be fought and refought in ensuing years. During the Second World War the influential shop stewards' committees were dominated by the Communist Party, but their policy of subordinating the workers' interests to those of Soviet Russia drew a withering fire from anarchists, Trotskyists and non-Communist Party socialists alike. This experience had a profound effect on Robert and it was then he began to nurture the ideas of Bakunin and the industrial strategy of syndicalism. In the post-war years Robert's influence in shipbuilding became increasingly irritating to both employers and communist-led union off…
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Bobby Campbell, Glaswegian folk musician
description: "Just been reminded that today is the 15th anniversary of the untimely passing of Glaswegian folk musician, journalist, raconteur and activist, Bobby Campbell (1942-1997) (pictured here in 1973 — fiddling, on the left — with his longtime comrade Gordon Mcculloch). Fondly remembered!" Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Albert Meltzer as a child
description: "My old mate, Albert (Meltzer) in his Boys' Brigade uniform in Tottenham c. 1931-32 (and the Latymer School blazer). Fondly remembered!" Stuart Christie, July 2011
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date: 1931-32
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Stuart Christie, Miguel García, and Albert Meltzer in London
description: "123 Upper Tollington Park, Finsbury Park, London (early 1970s?): this seems to be the only photo of Albert Meltzer, Miguel Garcia and yours truly. I've an idea it was a police surveillance photo, clearly there were no David Baileys among them!" Stuart adds "As you say, Dave, you can’t actually see it’s Miguel. But believe me it is (you can also tell from his signature Alpargatas – ‘Carabanchel Nikes!’). It must have been among the police photographs in the AB trial depositions. There were books and books of them, mostly scenes of crime/forensic pics, but also a few surveillance photos among them" Stuart Christie, July 2011
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date: Late 1970s
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Albert Meltzer Tea Party
description: "123 Tollington Park, London (late ‘60s?): one of Albert Meltzer’s memorable tea parties with many of his old friends, including: left Anne Blume’, the smiling lady on the left, the partner of Ted Kavanagh, publisher of Cuddons’ Cosmoplitan Review (and co-owner with Albert of the Wooden Shoe Bookshop). Apart from being a Dada aficionado, Anna also earned a crust for a time as a lady’s maid in a Soho brothel; Albert is directly behind her (you can just see his spectacles) and the lady laughing heartily to his left is Bronia McDonald who wrote and published mimeographed erotica for 10 shillings a page (this was, after all, the 1950s and early 1960s) another sideline was distributing vintage 8mm and 16mm ‘stag’ porn’. Bronia’s partner was Desmond (‘Des’) McDonald, a professional drama busker who entertained West End Theatre queues with his stentorian Shakespeare monologues and the good-humoured banter of a snake oil salesman. Mac and Bronia lived in St Stephen’s Gardens in Notting Hill and had been active in the local campaign against West London racketeer Peter Rachman. To Bronia’s left, standing with the ubiquitous fag in his hand, is Albert’s friend and fellow printworker, Joe Thomas, a lifelong trade union activist and committed supporter of the Anton Pannekoek inspired Movement for Workers’ Councils http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/.../obituaries/joe.htm Unfortunately I can’t for the life of me remember the names of the man and woman in the background …" Stuart Christie, July 2011
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date: Late 1960s/early 70s
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Brenda Christie, Hungarian anarchist John Rety and Dave Coull
description: "123 Tollington Park, London: I believe this was taken at the same soirée: Brenda Earl, John Rety <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7347759/John-Rety.html?fbclid=IwAR1aqM0axHHsjKVSQwzJmdGLTxJgK5oBiwuKeZBV09rIpJOiGPWAprvuuUU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../boo.../7347759/John-Rety.html and his partner Susan Johns (unfortunately badly overexposed) and, in profile, a young Dave Coull <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-?fbclid=IwAR1ew86cR8mFdAq7G4O1xlsand_WZXbRUtR3jQ7d5IQEmQR0qkS70SrW0lE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../culture-obituaries/books- " Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer
description: "Lewisham, London (early 1980s). a cheery Albert (modelling his Sanday knitters jersey) and I on the balcony of his Lewisham high-rise. Just received it from a dear NYer friend and comrade — Hadn't seen this one before." Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer
description: Photograph taken by Ken Sutherland, The Queens' Hotel, Crouch End, Hornsey, 1969
creator: Ken Sutherland, Stuart Christie
date: 1969
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Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer, Crouch End Broadway
description: "1968, Queen’s Hotel, Crouch End Broadway: Albert Meltzer (born London, January 7, 1920; died, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, May 7, 1996), anarchist printworker, writer, troublemaker and tireless anarchist activist, one of the most important figures in twentieth century British anarchism. (Photo by Ken Sutherland) Albert Meltzer was one of the most enduring and respected torchbearers of the international anarchist movement in the second half of the twentieth century. His sixty-year commitment to the vision and practice of anarchism survived both the collapse of the Revolution and Civil War in Spain and the Second World War; he helped fuel the libertarian impetus of the 1960s and 1970s and steer it through the reactionary challenges of the Thatcherite 1980s and post-Cold War 1990s. Fortunately, before he died, Albert managed to finish his autobiography, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels, a pungent, no-punches pulled, Schvejkian account of a radical twentieth century enemy of humbug and injustice. A life-long trade union activist, he fought Mosley's Blackshirts in the battle of Cable Street, played an active role in supporting the anarchist communes and militias in the Spanish Revolution and the pre-war German anti-Nazi resistance, was a key player in the Cairo Mutiny [after] the Second World War, helped rebuild the post-war anti-Franco resistance in Spain and the international anarchist movement. His achievements include Cuddon's Cosmopolitan Review, an occasional satirical review first published in 1965 and named after Ambrose Cuddon, possibly the first consciously anarchist publisher in the modern sense, the founding of the Anarchist Black Cross, a prisoners' aid and ginger group and the paper which grew out of it - Black Flag. However, perhaps Albert's most enduring legacy is the Kate Sharpley Library ( http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/), probably the most comprehensive anarchist archive in Britain. Born in 1920 into a mixed marriage in the London of Orwell's …
date: 29 September 1969
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Stuart Christie with Albert Meltzer at Anarchist Black Cross Fundraiser (Conway Hall)
description: "Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (late 1960s, early 1970s): just came across this pic with Albert Meltzer at some meeting or other. Think it was taken by Phil Ruff. The tank-top was ‘de rigeur’ in those days." Stuart Christie, July 2011
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date: 3 May 1975
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Albert Meltzer, Ontario
description: "Albert Meltzer, Windsor (Ontario), overlooking Detroit, June 23, 1993."
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date: 23 June, 1993
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Spanish anarchist Federico ‘Fede’ Arcos and Albert Meltzer in front of the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
description: "Remembering Federico ‘Fede’ Arcos (l) (July 18, 1920-May 23, 2015 — with Albert Meltzer at the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, The Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, 1993). ‘Fede’ was one of the principal financial mainstays of Cienfuegos Press, Refract Publications and ChristieBooks from the early 1970s until his death last summer, and it was primarily through him we were able to publish José Peirats’s 3-volume history of the CNT in English. The last time we met was at Heathrow Airport a few years ago when he was en route to Barcelona, but we spoke regularly by telephone. Sorry not to have been closer during those last difficult months for him. A toast to ‘Fede’ — ¡presente! ¡Salud y Libertad!" Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Luis Andrés Edo, Albert Meltzer, Doris Ensinger (Luis's partner)
description: Barcelona, La Rambla, 1986 Stuart on the life of Luis Andrés Edo: "1946 – Sent to the Modelo prison for “pilfering from a goods train”, charged with having stolen a sack of potatoes (as part of a “campaign” to feed families during the hungry years) 1947 – On military service near the French-Spanish border, deserted for the first time on 27 December. In France, came into contact with CNT activists. 1951 – First clandestine trip back to Spain. 1952 – In August, second clandestine trip to Spain. Arrested. Taken to the fortress in Figueres, convicted for desertion and jailed there until… 1954 – Escaped a second time. He then lived in Paris where he made the acquaintance of Laureano Cerrada, El Quico, etc. Became a member of the Libertarian Youth (FIJL). 1961 . – Joined Defensa Interior. 1966 – Was arrested with comrades in Madrid in October and given a 9 year jail term, being freed in 1972 under the amnesty granted in relation to the MATESA affair. 1974 – Arrested in June in Barcelona following the abduction in Paris of the banker Baltasar Suárez. Freed under an amnesty in June 1976. December 1976 – April 1977 – Coordinating Secretary of the Regional Committee of Catalonia (resigned together with other Regional Committee members). October 1980. – Arrested in the wake of Lucio Uturbia’s arrest in Paris and questioned for a fortnight under “anti-terrorist legislation”. Held until August 1981. Tried in October 1984 and acquitted of all charges. 1985-1987. – Director of Solidaridad Obrera. December 1988. – Appointed secretary of the Catalonian Regional Committee, holding this post until he resigned in 1990 after making a complaint of corruption against Prenafeta and being shunned and criticised by a number of comrades and trade unions. December 1988. – Elected president of the Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo (a post he held until June 1989). 1990-2002. – Elected four times on to the board of the Fundació d’Estudis Llibertaris y anarcosindicalistes (FELLA). 1993. – Co-organiser of…
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date: 1986
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Albert Meltzer, Salvador Gurucharri and his wife Luisa, Branwen Christie, Barcelona
description: "RIP Salvador Gurucharri Ochoa (Barcelona 1936 — Gerona 14 May 2014): Albert Meltzer, 'Salva', his compañera Luisa and Branwen Christie (Barcelona 1985). 'Salva' was a prime mover in the formation of the clandestine anarchist Defensa Interior (D.I.) in 1962, and was responsible for recruiting me to the organisation in 1964 ... Adios, compañero!" Stuart Christie, July 2011
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Albert Meltzer's Funeral, Lewisham
description: "10.30 am, May 24, 1996: A day mournful and overcast — funeral procession of Albert Meltzer (along Lee High Road) from his home in Celestial Gardens to Lewisham Crematorium. The cortege was led by Bill Stack’s ‘Southern Ragga Jazz Band’. " Stuart Christie, July 2011
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date: 24 May, 1996
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Albert Meltzer's Funeral, Lewisham Crematorium
description: "12:00 pm, May 24, 1996: Lewisham Crematorium. Albert’s eulogy was delivered by Black Flag cartoonist and Sidney Street historian Philip Ruff, followed by stand-up comedian Noel James and Marlene Dietrich’s rendition of ‘See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have’ and ‘Buddy Can You Spare a Dime’ movingly sung by David Campbell. Last words were from myself. Albert’s instructions to me (as one of his executors) was that he wanted ‘...to die in dignity, but my passing celebrated with jollity’, and that he wanted a stand-up comedian telling amusing anecdotes (which he did), and the coffin to slide into the incinerator to the sound of Marlene Dietrich. ‘If the booze-up can begin right away, so much the better, and with a bit of luck the crematorium will never be gloomy again. Anyone mourning should be denounced as the representative of a credit card company and thrown out on their ear. Snowballs if in season (tomatoes if not) can be thrown at abyone uttering even worthy cliches like ‘the struggle goes on’ and should anyone of a religious mind offer pieces of abstract consolation they should be prepared to dodge pieces of concrete confirmation.’"
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date: 24 May, 1996
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Montjuich Cemetry, Map
description: "Montjuich Cemetery: The tombs of Durruti, Ascaso and Ferrer are located in the bottom left of the plan (Sta Eulalia 1). It is also where we scattered the ashes of Albert Meltzer in 1996. The yellow highlighter was added for the benefit of those attending the scattering of Albert's (Meltzer) ashes in '96. It was quite a large crowd; reminiscent in fact of the memorial meeting at which Garcia Oliver spoke in 1937: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBWAbKQfSE" Stuart Christie, August 2013
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