The Tarragona-based journalist Enric Garcia Jardí (1992) wrote a report a couple of years ago in Ara Diumenge about the maquis fighter Joan Busquets Verges, born in Barcelona in 1928. Busquets was arrested by the Civil Guard and spent twenty years in prison after his death sentence was commuted. After weeks of living with the former guerrilla fighter in his Normandy home, the Tarragona-based journalist has published the book El maqui que encara lluita, in which he reviews the long life of this anarchist fighter who still visits Catalonia from time to time.

On November 7, 1893, Barcelona's high society flocked to the Liceu, because the opera season was beginning with William Tell by Rossini. Santiago Salvador, who was in his late twenties, accessed the upper floors of the theater from Sant Pau Street and saw the first act. After a short intermission, when the music began Oui, vous la arrachez à mon âme, He pulled out the two Orsini bombs he had hidden and dropped them into the audience. That day, as Èric Lluent (Barcelona, ​​1986) explains, in The bomb at the high school (NOW Books), Salvador inaugurated a new historical era. He was the perpetrator of the first attack of modern, indiscriminate terrorism. Who was Salvador? Who helped him and why? Why do we speak of modern terrorism? The Barcelona-born journalist residing in Reykjavik answers all these questions.

Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian father of anarchism, possessed an aristocratic temperament inherited from his family and was capable of charming all kinds of people, transcending barriers of class, social origin, and nationality. He was a sociable being. "Voluntary solitude is almost identical to selfishness, and can a selfish person be happy?" he wrote at a very young age, thus rejecting Rousseau's supposed perfect solitude. Josep Alemany explains all this in his insightful introduction to the classic and great work. best-seller by Bakunin God and the State (Adesiara), which he himself translated.