A great translation of an exciting book. A series of Robin Hood-like tales of daring heists and high-minded ideals, that at the same time uncovers unexplored aspects of anarchist and Argentine history.It includes the story of famed Spanish revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti's time in Argentina as an expropriator, before his return home to fight in the Spanish Civil War.Mike Davis has agreed to blurb it.
At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful anarcho-syndicalist labor union FORA against the despotic landowners and industrialists of Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1921– 1922. The tale ends tragically, with thousands...
