Octavio Alberola returns to Menorca, November 2008

“Menorca, November 2008: Octavio Alberola Surinac, born in Alaior, Menorca, in 1928, son of the noted anarchist teacher, writer and militant José Alberola (murdered in Mexico City on 1 May 1966 by agents of Franco’s Brigada Politico Social), is welcomed back to the island of his birth for the first time since a clandestine visit in 1958. Octavio went into exile in Mexico in 1939, with his parents, where he studied engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and became active in the Juventudes Libertarias, the Spanish CNT in Mexico and a number of Latin American and Caribbean liberation movements. In 1962 he was the coordinator of the CNT’s clandestine defence section, ‘Interior Defence’ (D.I) and was considered to be Franco’s Public Enemy No 1’ by the Spanish (and other European) security services and secret police. From 1978 until 1982 he studied at the l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris where he graduated in ‘History and Cinema’. He is currently active in the ‘Group for the Revision of the Granado-Delgado Trial’ which, since 1998, has been pressing for the annulment of sentences imposed by Francoist military tribunals and ‘Public Order Tribunals’ (TOP)”

[Stuart Christie, 2011]