Mano Negra affair

Anarchists condemned to death in Jerez
Trial in the murder of Blanco de Benaocaz

The Black Hand (Spanish: La Mano Negra) was a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain and best known as the perpetrators of murders, arson, and crop fires in the early 1880s.[1] The events associated with the Black Hand took place in 1882 and 1883 amidst class struggle in the Andalusian countryside, the spread of anarcho-communism distinct from collectivist anarchism, and differences between legalists and illegalists in the Federación de Trabajadores de la Región Española.[2]

  1. ^ La Mano Negra: Historia de una represión by José Luis Pantoja Antúnez y Manuel Ramírez López
  2. ^ Termes 2011, p. 91.