1 25 4 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/e5e6a72ab3461cbcd230670f9733614d.jpg b4e6ac2747379c7395877aa9984207ec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Christie and fellow British prisoner Jimmy Wagner, Madrid (1967) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Alcalá de Henares Penintentiary with Jimmy Wagner (Jimmy was serving 30 years for murdering a moneylender). For Glaswegian style aficionados, my shirt is a Bob Fletcher original . . . Alcalá penitentiary, originally — pre-Franco — the 17th century Convento de Santo Tomás — is now, believe it or nor, a luxury hotel, a Parador no less!' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967 Madrid Mutual Aid prison Solidarity Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/81028057c978e670b0f1278fa7f68634.jpg be4838221862e662550d0aa624979d28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Christie and fellow British prisoner, Jimmy Wagner, Talleres Penitenciarios de Alcalá de Henares (1967) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (July 1967): 'Jimmy Wagner* and me in the patio of the printshop where, among other publications, I was a printer on the weekly Francoist propaganda sheet ‘Redención’. The print-run, if I remember correctly, was about 10,000 copies, a bit down on its peak of 37,000 in 1943. Published continuously since 1 April 1939 (the date of Franco’s victory), ‘Redención’ was written and edited by a motley collection of ultra-Catholic integrists, followers of ‘Our Lady of Fatima, determined to spread the social reign of Christ the King and roll civilisation back by 400 years or more. Prisoners were obliged to purchase the newspaper, like medieval indulgences, in order to make a public display of repentance and to ensure they benefitted from the occasional general partial pardons (‘indultos’) and qualified for provisional liberty on serving two-thirds of their sentence. Jimmy worked upstairs in the bookbinding workshop, a trade I wanted to learn, but the DG of Prisons insisted I was destined to be a printer, silly billy! Jimmy re-bound most of my contraband anarchist library in half-leather bindings, some with red and black buckram, gold-leaf titling, gilt-edging, marbled end-papers complete with silk head- and tailbands, and placemarkers. Works of great beauty they were; only a few of them left now, sadly. * Jimmy (James Bell Wagner) — a Dostoyevsky aficionado — was serving 30 years for murdering a moneylender in Barcelona in 1962.' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967 Madrid Press Printing Solidarity Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/a6114a1c2b89dcfbed920c1088cf1c78.jpg c5412cf579da659e0a60b9f86a4faea7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joan Busquets i Vergés in the Yeserías Prison Hospital, Madrid (1965) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie: 'One good thing that came out of my time in Yeserías was a lifelong friendship with Juan Busquets Verges (pictured above in his hospital bed in Yeserías). Busquets had fought originally with the Pyrenean rural action group of Marcelino Massana Bancells, ‘Pancho’, but then joined forces with the urban guerrilla group of José ‘Pepe’ Sabaté, the eldest of the three legendary Sabaté brothers. Manuel Sabaté, the youngest of the brothers, had been arrested with the twenty-one year old Busquets in a police ambush in October 1949. Busquets was one of the fortunate few to have their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment. A few years before we met he had been involved in an escape attempt from the prison of San Miguel de los Reyes with another anarchist, the writer and historian Juan Gómez Casas and a gypsy who had had it on his toes as soon as he was over the wall — without waiting to help the others — leaving Busquets a hanging target on the wall. Busquets dropped thirty feet to the ground, breaking his leg in the process. He crawled to a ditch where he remained in agony, slipping in and out of consciousness until the guards found him the next morning. They battered him mercilessly around the face and hands with their rifle butts until he was senseless, breaking his nose and the bones of his hands as well as his leg, then kept him in solitary confinement without medical treatment for two months.' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965 Anarchist Catalan Escape Fuga Madrid Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/1dfdacad75f458469f52bf2ef6dce482.jpg e3682fdfcdeb77787e23bb92571c41f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Christie in the Yeserías prison hospital, Madrid (1965) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie: 'A priest came to see me before my operation. This worried me in case he’d come to perform the last rites (and me a 'Proddy'), but it was simply a friendly visit to his 'flock'. I just hoped that if ...I did make it through the operation I would still have a nose. The operation reminded me of my tonsillectomy on a Glasgow kitchen table at the age of 5. I was ushered into what looked like a gynaecological chair, while the nursing staff, all prisoners, strapped my wrists, chest and legs. The seat was then cranked back until my head was at 45 degrees to the floor and my feet pointing at the ceiling. A masked surgeon looking like Laurence Olivier playing the Nazi dentist in Marathon Man suddenly loomed over me wielding two stainless steel corkscrews that he proceeded to manoeuvre up my nostrils and crank open as though he was opening a bottle of claret. With a flourish, a large chrome syringe appeared in his hand, which he jabbed into the soft palate of my mouth like a matador in for the faena. As the freezing Novocain trickled down my gullet I could still feel everything, particularly pain. A stainless steel chisel then appeared in his hand, which he promptly poked into my nostril. Suddenly, what looked like an ice pick appeared in other hand of this latter-day Ramón Mercader. He swung back and then began battering his way into my brain cavity. Wincing under the relentless hammer blows I began to feel some sympathy for Leon Trotsky. Was this man clearing my sinuses or was he planning to trepan me to open up my ‘Third Eye’?' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965 Madrid prison Spain