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Direct Action in Montevideo

Direct Action in Montevideo

Uruguayan Anarchism, 1927–1937

by Fernando O'Neill Cuesta

Published by: AK Press

Imprint: AK Press

340 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in, black and white photographs throughout

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9781849353649
Published: March 2020

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Direct Action in Montevideo is the astonishing tale of anarchists willing to use extraordinary methods to achieve their goals. Seen as mere criminals by the legal system, the author met many of them in prison, where he was serving his own sentence. Politicized by his experiences, he went on to eventually write their story, which was also the story of a culture of solidarity and resistance in the face of oppression. These men were rebels who violated the norms of a social order they considered unjust, often responding to the violence of exploitation and immiseration with a violence of their own, robbing banks to fund revolutionary activities, planting bombs, fighting strikebreakers, aiding fugitives, and attacking, even assassinating, bosses and political figures.

Editor’s Note

Note by the Comrades of Grupo Editorial Recortes [original publisher]

Prologue by Osvaldo Bayer to the First Edition of 1993

Prologue to the First Edition of 1993

Translator’s Foreword

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Observations about the Applied Work Method

Chronology of Significant Events

Circumstances of my Relation with Some of the Protagonists

Attack against the Estrella del Norte Bakery (January 1927)

Bomb at Reducto Streetcar Station (September 1927)

Alarm in Uruguay due to the Arrival of Roscigna and the Morettis (October 15–26, 1927)

Messina Currency Exchange Robbery (October 25, 1928)

El Deseado Bus Episode (July 1929)

Incident at the Chauffeurs Workers’ Union (February 1931)

El Buen Trato Coal Yard Escape and Subsequent Captures (March 1931)

Attack against Argentino Pesce (May 27, 1931)

Frigorífico Nacional Paymaster Robbery (November 9, 1931)

Attack against España and Anido, Leaders of the “Free Bakers Society” (9 December 1931)

Eleazar Hagman’s Death (February 19, 1932)

Attack against Capt. Pardeiro (February 24, 1932)

The Lecaldare Case (May 27, 1932)

Shootout at Paso Molino (November 20, 1933)

Deportation of Roscigna, Paz, López, and Malvicini (March 4, 1937)

Epilogue

Afterword by Osvaldo Bayer

Index

Fernando O’Neill Cuesta (1924-2005) was a revolutionary and historian of anarchism in Uruguay. His books include El caso Pardeiro: un ajusticiamiento anarquista (2001) and Búsqueda y captura del comandante Doblas (2004)