Revolutionary Internationalist Action Groups

The Revolutionary Internationalist Action Groups (French: Groupes d'action révolutionnaires internationalistes; Spanish: Grupos de Acción Revolucionaria Internacionalista; GARI) was an anarchist and anti-Francoist terrorist[1][2] group in France in the 1970s.

Revolutionary Internationalist Action Groups

Groupes d'action révolutionnaires internationalistes
AbbreviationGARI
FounderRemnants of the Iberian Liberation Movement
Founded1973 (1973)
HeadquartersToulouse, France
IdeologyAutonomous Marxism
Anti-Francoism

History

GARI was founded after the execution by Spain's Francoist regime of the Spanish anarchist Salvador Puig Antich and the crackdown by the Spanish police of the Iberian Liberation Movement Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL), the outfit to which Salvador Puig Antich belonged.

Based mainly in the south of France around Toulouse, the group was formed by French and Spanish anti-fascists.[3] Several GARI members, among whom Jean-Marc Rouillan, a former member of the Iberian Liberation Movement, would later create the leftist terrorist group Action directe.[4]

See also

References
  1. Dictionary of Terrorism, David Wright-Neville, page 11
  2. Chronologies of Modern Terrorism by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, page 46
  3. Telesforo Tajuelo. El MIL, Puig Antich y los GARI, 1969-1975. Paris, Editorial Ruedo Ibérico, 1977
  4. Cronología de los GARI
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