(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Antonio Mart?n: a Spanish revolutionary left us (fr, pt)

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Son of Exile Spanish, Antonio Mart?n had participated across the Pyrenees, covert action 
against the Franco regime. He was also, for decades, a loyal militant anarcho-syndicalism 
hexagonal. One of his former comrades remembered. ---- Born in 1938, during the war of 
Spain, Antonio Mart?n Bellido son was a militant of the UGT (socialist union obedience) 
exiled in France after the defeat by Franco. ---- He was educated in Strasbourg and at the 
age of 19 had risen to Paris where he joined the Libertarian Youth (FIJL). In 1962 he 
participated in an anti-nuclear march in London. ---- Supporter of direct action against 
the Franco regime he participated in the activities organized by the FIJL and Defensa 
Interior, the agency responsible for the fight against Franco in the Spanish libertarian 
movement. He lent his hand to a number of attacks against the interests Franco in Italy 
and Spain.

He committed the attack against such a monument to El Valle de los Fallen , in August 
1962, which also participated Denais Paul and Sergio Hern?ndez.

It is for these attacks, they were innocent, that Joaquin Delgado and Francisco Granado, 
other activists FIJL sent from France to Madrid, were sentenced to death and pinioned 
August 17, 1963 .

Antonio Mart?n in July 1963 in Madrid.
Private archives.

In 1968 Antonio Martin was the secretary of the Young Libertarians of Paris and was under 
house arrest in Saint-Brieuc for "criminal association."

From 1995 he was one of the leaders of the French CNT who knew, after the wave of 
strikes, a new development.

I met Antonio when I started the business in 1983 at the CNT Plaisir (Yvelines), where he 
lived at the time. He thus took part in the adventure of Ca?art (open to all libertarian 
journal). Artist, he loved to create works from matches. After December 95, he also wrote 
a novel, "Petals and free vitamins", signed Anton von Krutenau, who appeared in a brochure 
we had edited, time to strike, so many dreams . He yelled at us when he saw the bulges on 
the walls, holding that degrade the walls was counterproductive in terms of image.

A pleasure we had at that time physically prevented a rally FN to the castle. At that 
time, it was almost impossible for the FN stick - in the quarter of an hour when one of 
their team was identified, some forty people came "to meet them." Memories ...

Anarchist, but simply one, Antonio helped an old general Spanish Republican abandoned by 
all of Trappes. It helped him fill out an application for his years in the military 
between 1936 and 1939 are accounted for and improve retirement. He encouraged us to go and 
visit the sick and fellow anarchists alone in Hostos.

Retired in 1998 - he worked for Bull in Clayes-sous-Bois - he devoted himself, including 
Octavio Alberola, obtaining Spanish judicial authorities retrial of Delgado and Granado .

At the time, Antonio had given us instructions in case he would be arrested in Spain. He 
was concerned the Spanish justice, after the Franco regime and never "purified" even 
twenty years after the death of Franco.

Ironically, he left us August 17, 2014 at 4: 30 pm or 5:00 am, the anniversary of the 
martyrdom of Delgado and Granado, to the end that he was accompanied by his thoughts.

Christmas Morel (AL Montreuil)

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