Bases Autónomas

The group was formed in Madrid in 1983 under the leadership of Carlos Rodrigo Ruiz de Castro and Fernando Fernández Perdices (both lawyers) and the student Ignacio Alonso García.

[1] They published magazines that encouraged violent action, such as La Peste Negra (The black plague) and ¡A Por Ellos!

[2] Membership was largely made up of football hooligan Ultras and racist skinheads who operated in small cells.

However given the cell-based nature of the movement, which took its organisational, if not its ideological, impetus from anarchism, some individual cells continued to exist for some time after this.

[4] Others became heavily involved in the RAC music scene, helping to promote such Spanish bands as Estirpe Imperial, Division 250 and Klan.