My Granny Made me an Anarchist

On the last day of July 1964 Stuart Christie, a newly-turned 18-year-old Glaswegian anarchist, left London for Paris and Madrid on a mission whose objective was to kill the last of the Axis dictators — General Francisco Franco. Christie was one of the 'Stoke Newington 8' Angry Brigade defendants and his personal and political life-story is told in his autobiography

The Guardian has Duncan Campbell interviewing Christie on the background to his plot to kill Franco in 1964 in light of his new book. “It was the early 60s and the US Polaris nuclear submarines had been sited at the Holy Loch. Christie joined the Scottish Committee of 100, which was dedicated to their removal and whose direct-action politics appealed. The idea of revolution was quite alive in Scotland at the time," he says. "There was the political radicalisation of the 50s, satire, rock music and the collapse of the credibility of the Communist party."

Read it in full here, with extracts from the book.