Free City Radio
Tuesday February 20th, 2024 with Stefan Christoff
Author Mark Bray on The Anarchist Inquisition

Listen to a conversation with author Mark Bray speaking about the recently released book "The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France." The book is described this way: "The 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 era—from 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." Info on the book is live here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/97815…nquisition