"Que sean fuego las estrellas" (Let the Stars Be Fire) is a reflection on the anarchist-unionist movement in Barcelona during the years 1917-1923.

The Spanish-Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo has selected the “Semana Negra of Gijon” festival to introduce his new work Que sean fuego las estrellas. The book, which describes the most important anarchist-unionist movement in Spanish history, is a story about proletarians and bourgeois, and about the vindication of the principles of justice and liberty.  Those who think that a proletarian epic is impossible, that the epic is the property of the Homeric Greeks, of Custer’s riders in blue, or of the students of 1968, better think again. At the beginning of the previous century, among a proletariat of smoky and dark factories, of seedy bars and dives, of dirty unlit streets, of cramped and crowded neighborhoods, and of nearly nonexistent salaries, a worker’s uprising was born whose protagonist was a passionate Catalan woman who seemed to inhabit a different universe.

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