15 Facts About Stuart Christie

Stuart Christie was a Scottish anarchist writer and publisher.

Stuart Christie was later alleged to be a member of the Angry Brigade, but was acquitted of related charges.

Stuart Christie went on to found Cienfuegos Press, an anarchist publishing house, as well as radical publications The Free-Winged Eagle and The Hastings Trawler, and in 2006 the online Anarchist Film Channel, which hosts films and documentaries with anarchist and libertarian socialist themes.

Stuart Christie was born in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, and was raised in Blantyre by his mother and grandparents, becoming an anarchist at a young age.

Stuart Christie became active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, attracted to the more militant approach of the Direct Action Committee and Committee of 100, and took part in the confrontational Faslane Naval Base CND demonstration on 14 February 1963, among others.

Stuart Christie answered that it would; when the programme was broadcast after his arrest in Spain, these comments were edited out.

Stuart Christie hitchhiked into Spain and was arrested in Madrid on 11 August 1964 in possession of explosives.

Stuart Christie faced a military trial and a possible execution sentence by garrote, but was instead sentenced to twenty years in prison.

Stuart Christie served three years in Carabanchel Prison, where he studied for A-Levels and was brought into contact with anarchist prisoners, including Miguel Garcia Garcia, Luis Andres Edo and Juan Busquets.

Stuart Christie had various writing and journalistic jobs including as editor of an unauthorised British edition of Pravda and Argumenty i Fakty in the late years of the Soviet Union and the early years of the Russian Federation.

Stuart Christie attracted criticism from some fellow anarchists for making a gestural protest vote against Labour and its war in Iraq by voting for George Galloway's Respect - The Unity Coalition in the European Parliament elections that year, because of the general anarchist stance against participating in capitalist democracy.

Stuart Christie himself died aged 74, from cancer, on 15 August 2020.

Stuart Christie wrote, with Albert Meltzer, The Floodgates of Anarchy.

Stuart Christie edited The Hastings Trawler, a monthly magazine that ran from 2005 to 2006.

Stuart Christie translated into English the biography of Francisco Sabate Llopart, Sabate: An Extraordinary Guerrilla, by Antonio Tellez Sola.