Direct Action in Montevideo

Uruguayan Anarchism, 1927–1937

Fernando O'Neill Cuesta

• Publisher: AK Press
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781849353199
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Editor’s Note
• Note by the Comrades of Grupo Editorial Recortes
• Foreword to the Translation
• Translator’s Acknowledgements
• Author’s 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
• Bomb at Reducto Streetcar Station
• Alarm in Uruguay Over the Arrival of Roscigna and the Morettis
• Cambio Messina Currency Exchange Robbery
• The El Deseado Bus Episode
• Incident at the Chauffeur Workers Union
• El Buen Trato Coal Yard Escape and Subsequent Captures
• Attack against Argentino Pesce
• Frigorífico Nacional Paymaster Robbery
• Attack against España and Anido, Leaders of the Free Bakers Society
• Photos
• Eleazar Hagman’s Death
• Assassination of Police Captain Pardeiro
• The Lecaldare Case
• Shootout in Paso Molino
• Deportation of Roscigna, Paz, López, and Malvicini
• Epilogue
• The Ever-Present Violence
• Index
• About the Author and Translator
• Copyright