Júlio Carrapato, Algarvean anarchist, translator, bookseller, editor, university professor died this Tuesday, the 22nd, in Faro, Your hometown.
The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, the 24th, at 14 pm, at the cemetery in Faro, where he will be buried next to his father, Júlio de Almeida Carrapato, who was civil governor of the Algarve from 1975 to 1980, right after the 25th of April.
Júlio Carrapato had been operated on for lung cancer two years ago.
O blog «Colectivo Libertário Évora» he recalls that Júlio Carrapato was “above all a man who enjoyed life and freedom”.
Júlio Carrapato was linked to the “Direct Action” group, nurturing special close relationships with elements of this group forged in Paris, where several of its members were resistant to the colonial war; he later belonged to the group “Apoio Mútuo”, from Évora, where he was a professor in the early days of the University; he later created the newspaper “O Meridional” (from April 1978), one of the icons of the libertarian press after the 25th of April.
Returning to Faro, opened the bookstore and the Sotavento editions. Later, he opened the publishing house «Algarve em Foco», which launched many books about the Algarve lands or written by authors from the region.
The same blog says that Júlio Carrapato translated several classics of anarchist literature: “O Povo em Armas”, by Abel Paz; “The Thief”, by George Darien, among others.
He also wrote “a vast number of books” in which the following stand out: “An Anarchist's Response to the Last Mohicans of Marxism and Leninism, as well as to the countless “Pints of Democracy”, “New Well-Disposed Chronicles”, “The Portuguese Discoveries and Spaniards or Another Version of a Badly Told Story”, “Towards a Libertarian Critique of Law followed by Law and Authority”, “Subsidies for the Restoration of the Truth about the Spanish Civil War”.
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