01/19/2026
Today the world lost an important figure. Frank Fernández was an influential Cuban anarchist author, historian, organizer, and revolutionary known worldwide for documenting the history of the Cuban anarchist movement and being active in it.
Frank was a Cuban militant who served as a core organizer in the Movimiento Libertario Cubano en el Exilio (Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile) for decades and worked to preserve the memory of thousands of Cuban anarchists who fought for social justice against successive dictatorships, including Machado, Batista, and Castro.
Frank wrote the definitive and thorough history of the Cuban anarchist movement in his book: Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement, published in 2001. This history is particularly important as the Castro government has worked very hard to censor and erase this history and the huge influence the anarchist movement has had on the island since its days as a Spanish colony and up to the 1959 revolution.
He was also was the long-time editor of Guángara Libertaria, a major periodical for the Cuban anarchist movement in exile, for which he wrote extensively on Cuban history and revolutionary politics.
Rest in Power.
