Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. In 1964, a fresh-faced, eighteen-year-old Glaswegian named Stuart Christie became the most famous anarchist in Britain. He was arrested delivering explosives to Madrid to be used in the assassination of Spanish dictator General Franco. After serving three years of his twenty-year sentence, he was released due to international pressure from supporters like Bertrand Russell and Jean Paul Sartre. Christie would go on to found the Anarchist Black Cross, Black Flag magazine, and Cienfuegos Press. This warm and witty memoir, from the tough streets of post-World War II Glasgow to the heady ideals of the Generation of '68, reads like a cloak-and-dagger political thriller and chronicles clandestine political maneuverings, life behind bars, and flirtations with radical youth who were convinced the government could be toppled and their country made anew.

Author City: GLASGOW UK

Stuart Christie (born July 10, 1946 in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland) is a Glaswegian anarchist writer and publisher. Christie is most well-known for being arrested as an 18-year old while carrying explosives to assassinate the Spanish dictator General Franco. He was later alleged to be a member of the Angry Brigade, but was acquitted of related charges. He went on to found the Cienfuegos Press publishing house, later ChristieBooks and in 2008 the online "Anarchist Film Channel" - now temporarily discontinued, which hosted over 700 films and documentaries with anarchist and libertarian themes.