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Postcards from Spain
Subject
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Spanish anti-Francoist resistance
Description
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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
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Stuart Christie
Ross Flett
Date
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06/04/1967-09/09/1967
Format
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Scanned document
Language
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English
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Joan Busquets i Vergés in the Yeserías Prison Hospital, Madrid (1965)
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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
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Stuart Christie
Date
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1965
Anarchist
Catalan
Escape
Fuga
Madrid
Spain