* * * Yesterday, the Spanish Supreme Court refused to accept the admission of new evidence that could have helped efforts to force a revision of the trial in which Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich was condemned to death. Puig Antich, a militant of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (Iberian Liberation Movement), was convicted for the murder of policeman Francisco Anguas and executed by garrote on March 2, 1974. The trial was then and remains contentious due to numerous inconsistencies in the proceedings. His case has received new attention in recent years thanks to the release of Manuel Huerga’s excellent film Salvador. [Madrid Digital]
You can watch film’s trailer here:
* * * New book: Autonomedia has announced a June publication date for Provo: Amsterdam’s Anarchist Revolt by Richard Kempton.
Share on FacebookProvo: Amsterdam’s Anarchist Revolts isthe first book-length English-language study of Holland’s legendary insurrectional movement. In an introduction and eight chapters, Richard Kempton narrates the rise and fall of Provo from early Dutch “Happenings” staged in 1962 through to the so-called “Death of Provo” in 1967, including Robert Jasper Grootveld’s anarchist anti-cancer campaigns, the riots against Princess Beatrix’s marriage to an ex-Nazi, and the famous White Bicycle program. Then, in seven appendices, he comments on parallel contemporary and near-contemporary movements, including Dada and Situationism; studies Amsterdam’s previous anarchist traditions; chronicles the spread of Provo through the Netherlands and the development of the Kabouter (Gnome) party; and offers an existentialist critique of Provo and other anarchist movements of the 60s. This unique book is based on extensive primary research and includes a selective bibliography of the Dutch-language sources.
That trailer looks quite interesting, I’m gonna see if I can find the dvd.