Description
Book SynopsisThe Anarchist Inquisition explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers through this tumultuous erafrom backroom meetings in Paris and torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos Aires.
Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well as modern global policing, and international legislation on extradition and migration. A transnational network of journalists, lawyers, union activists, anarchists, and other dissidents relat
Table of Contents
Introduction: Two Children of Modernity
Part I: The Propagandist by the Deed
1. "With Fire and Dynamite"
2. Propaganda by the Deed and Anarchist Communism
3. The Birth of the Propagandist by the Deed
4. Introducing the "Lottery of Death"
5. "There are no Innocent Bourgeois"
Part II: El Proceso de Montjuich
6. The Anarchist Inquisition
7. The Return of Torquemada
8. Germinal
9. Montjuich, Dreyfus, and "el Desastre"
10. "All of Spain is Montjuich"
Part III: The Shadow of Montjuich
11. The General Strike and the Montjuich Template of Resistance
12. The Iron Pineapple
13. Tossing the Bouquet at the Royal Wedding
14. "Truth on the March" for Francisco Ferrer
15. Francisco Ferrer and the Tragic Week
Epilogue: "Neither Innocent nor Guilty"
