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Salvador Puig Antich (1948 – March 2, 1974) was a Catalan anarchist, born in Barcelona, and active during the 1960s. A member of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL), he was executed by the Francoist regime after being tried by a military tribunal and found guilty of the death of a Guardia Civil policeman. His execution was very unpopular; the Catalan painter Antoni Tapies made a series of litographs called "Assassins" and displayed them in the Maeght gallery in Paris, in honour of Puig Antich's memory [1]. The Groupes d'action révolutionnaire internationalistes (GARI) were also formed after his death. Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...
The Catalans are an ethnic group or nationality whose homeland is Catalonia, or the Principality of Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, or Principat de Catalunya), which is a historical region in southern Europe, embracing a territory situated in the north-east of Spain and an adjoining portion of southern France. ...
Anarchism is a political philosophy or group of philosophies and attitudes which reject any form of compulsory government[1] and support its elimination,[2] often because of a wider rejection of involuntary authority. ...
Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (City of Counts) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ...
The Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL) was a Catalan leftist armed group between 1971 and 1973, based mainly in Barcelona and in Toulouse in France. ...
The Spanish Civil War officially ended on 1 April 1939, the day Francisco Franco announced the end of hostilities. ...
Patrol boat, Nervion river, Bilbao. ...
Antoni TÃ pies (born in Barcelona, 1923) is a catalan spanish painter. ...
Lithography stone and mirror-image print of a map of Munich. ...
The Groupes daction révolutionnaire internationalistes (GARI) were an anti-imperialist group in France in the 1970s. ...
Life Child of a middle-class working family, Salvador was the third of six siblings. His father, Joaquim Puig, had been a militant in Acció Catalana, a Catalan political movement, during the times of the Second Spanish Republic. After being exiled in France in a refugee camp in Argelès-sur-Mer, he was condemned to death upon his return to Spain. Anthem El Himno de Riego Capital Madrid Language(s) Spanish Government Republic President - 1931–1936 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora - 1936–1939 Manuel Azaña Legislature Congress of Deputies Historical era Interwar period - Monarchy abolished April 14, 1931 - Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 - Surrender to Franco April 1, 1939 Currency Spanish peseta...
Argelès-sur-Mer is a village and commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales département, in southwestern France, near Perpignan. ...
Salvador began studying in the religious school La Salle Bonanova until he was expelled for indiscipline. From the age of 16, Salvador combined office work with night studies at the Maragall Institute, where he made friends with Xavier Garriga and the Solé Sugranyes brothers, who would be future comrades of his in the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL), an anarchist group fighting against the Franco regime and capitalism. The Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL) was a Catalan leftist armed group between 1971 and 1973, based mainly in Barcelona and in Toulouse in France. ...
The Spanish Civil War officially ended on 1 April 1939, the day Francisco Franco announced the end of hostilities. ...
The events of May 1968 in France were decisive in Puig Antich deciding to involve himself in the fight against the Franco dictatorship. His first involvement was in the Workers' Commissions ("Comisiones Obreras" CCOO), formed partly by the Student Commission of the Maragall Institute. Ideologically, he quickly became attracted to anarchist positions, that reject any type of hierarchy and coercion within political organizations and unions in the fight for the emancipation of the working classes. After beginning university studies in Economics, Puig Antich did military service in Ibiza, working in the barrack's clinic. Upon completing his service, Puig Antich became part of the MIL, as a part of its military branch. Puig Antich participated in the group's actions, which mostly meant being a driver during bank robberies ("expropriations"). The money gained went to promote the group's clandestine publications, and to support strikers and detained workers. A May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up, with stereotypical silhouette of General de Gaulle. ...
Workers Commissions (Comisiones Obreras, CCOO). ...
Ibiza (Catalan: Eivissa) is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to Spain. ...
Illegalism is an anarchist philosophy which developed primarily in France in the early 1900s parallel to anarchist individualism. ...
Puig Antich and his comrades moved around easily in clandestine circles and often travelled to the south of France, where they linked up with the old militants of the CNT-F. The CNT-F (Confédération nationale du travail) or National Confederation of Labour is a French anarcho-syndicalist union. ...
They congregated in August 1973 in France to hold a MIL conference. The following month, after an attack on an office of the Savings and Pension Bank of Barcelona, a strong offensive against the MIL began.
First to fall in this offensive were Oriol Sole Sugranyes and Josep Lluis Pons Llobet, and then Santi Soler, who was detained, interrogated, and tortured, finally confessing the secret meeting places of his comrades. Soler was used as a trap by plainclothes officers to detain Xaviuer Garriga and Puig Antich. The meticulously prepared operation took place on September 25, 1973 in Barcelona. The two anarchists were detained, and immediately afterwards, a shootout occurred in which Puig Antich was badly injured and a young Guardia Civil Francisco Anguas Barragán was killed. is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...
Puig Antich was jailed, accused of having fired the shots that killed Anguas Barragan, and after being tried by a court martial he was condemned to death. In some parts of Europe, and as far away as Argentina, there were demonstrations demanding the commutation of the execution, but Franco stayed firm and did not concede. Puig Antich, then 25 years old, was executed by garrote in a cell of the central Barcelona jail on March 2 at 9:40 am. A garrote (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and garrotte) is a handheld weapon, most often referring to a ligature of chain, rope, scarf, or wire used to strangle someone to death. ...
References - ^ Antoni Tapies (Spanish)
See also Salvador (Puig Antich) (or Salvador) is a 2006 Spanish film directed by Manuel Huerga. ...
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