Direct Action in Montevideo is the astonishing tale of anarchists willing
to use extraordinary methods to achieve their goals. Seen as mere criminals
by the legal system, the author met many of them in prison, where he was
serving his own sentence. Politicized by his experiences, he went on to
eventually write their story, which was also the story of a culture of
solidarity and resistance in the face of oppression. These men were rebels
who violated the norms of a social order they considered unjust, often
responding to the violence of exploitation and immiseration with a violence
of their own, robbing banks to fund revolutionary activities, planting
bombs, fighting strikebreakers, aiding fugitives, and attacking, even
assassinating, bosses and political figures.