Stuart Christie

Stuart Christie (* July 10, 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland) is an anarchist and was the founder and publisher of Black Flag.

Christie was his attempted assassination of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1964 known. On August 11, but was arrested in Madrid before he could commit the assassination. Christie was sentenced by a military court to 20 years imprisonment. To international pressure (including with the support of Bertrand Russell and Jean -Paul Sartre ), he was released after only three years in prison and was able to return to the UK.

Stuart Christie, an involvement in the attacks of the London urban guerrilla Angry Brigade accused of 1970-1972, for which he was acquitted in court. In the 1970s he founded together with Albert Meltzer, the magazine Black Flag and reformed with him the prisoner aid organization Anarchist Black Cross with an emphasis on support for political prisoners in Franco's Spain. Later he founded a small publishing house Cienfuegos Press, and ChristieBooks and the Anarchist Film Channel with currently over 300 films on the subject of anarchy.

Works

  • Granny made ​​me an anarchist., 2004.
  • General Franco made ​​me a terrorist.
  • Edward Heath Made Me Angry.
  • We, the Anarchists! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation ( FAI) 1927-1937.
Anarchism Dictatorship Urban guerrilla warfare The Angry Brigade Integrated Authority File
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