Isbn: 9798887441221 - born of struggle, living in hope: the anarcho-punk lives of the centro iberico, 1971–1983 (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the Spanish Civil War to postpunk Londonthis is the untold story of a legendary community space where anarchy meant action.For the first time, the tangled twelve-year history of the Centro Iberico is unraveled and laid barea story that begins in the trenches of antifascist resistance and ends in a squatted school echoing with experimental noise and uncompromising politics.At its heart is a Spanish anarchist who fought the Nazis, survived a death sentence under Franco, and spent his final years keeping the flame of resistance alive from exile in London. His survival and the inauguration of the Centro Iberico were thanks to London's anarchist underground, which maintained a foothold and kept the torches burning before finding new life amid punk's co-optation of 'anarchy' as a youth culture phenomenon. Around him gathered an intergenerational network of political anarchists, punks, squatters, and artistskeeping the Centro Iberia alive through state harassment, shifting countercultural tides, and one of the most absurd antiterror trials in British history.A sanctuary for radical organizing and a crucible for underground sounds, the Centro Iberico was the UK's only enduring anarchist center of the 1980s. It served as a vital hub that connected international political prisoner support efforts led by the Anarchist Black Cross to anarchist movements abroad, while sustaining its own activities in support of the cause.This is its definitive storya vivid, deeply researched account of a space where ideology, art, and defiance collided.…