Born of Struggle, Living in Hope: The Anarcho-Punk Lives of the Centro Iberico, 1971–1983 - Softcover

Soulsby, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798887441221

Verlag: PM Press, 2026

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From the Spanish Civil War to postpunk London—this is the untold story of a legendary community space where anarchy meant action.

For the first time, the tangled twelve-year history of the Centro Iberico is unraveled and laid bare—a story that begins in the trenches of antifascist resistance and ends in a squatted school echoing with experimental noise and uncompromising politics.

At its heart is a Spanish anarchist who fought the Nazis, survived a death sentence under Franco, and spent his final years keeping the flame of resistance alive from exile in London. His survival and the inauguration of the Centro Iberico were thanks to London's anarchist underground, which maintained a foothold and kept the torches burning before finding new life amid punk’s co-optation of “anarchy” as a youth culture phenomenon. Around him gathered an intergenerational network of political anarchists, punks, squatters, and artists—keeping the Centro Iberia alive through state harassment, shifting countercultural tides, and one of the most absurd antiterror trials in British history.

A sanctuary for radical organizing and a crucible for underground sounds, the Centro Iberico was the UK’s only enduring anarchist center of the 1980s. It served as a vital hub that connected international political prisoner support efforts led by the Anarchist Black Cross to anarchist  movements abroad, while sustaining its own activities in support of the cause.

This is its definitive story—a vivid, deeply researched account of a space where ideology, art, and defiance collided.

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Nick Soulsby is the author of Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil (2022), Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019), Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence (2018), Thurston Moore: We Sing a New Language (2017), Cobain on Cobain: Interviews & Encounters (2016), I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana (2015), and Dark Slivers: Seeing Nirvana in the Shards of Incesticide (2012).

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• Verlag: PM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798887441221
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland