He eventually emerged as a mainstay in the Movida Madrileña (the "Madrid Scene"), an explosion of art, music, design, nightlife and general cultural liberation that lasted into the mid-80s and was a celebratory, wildly eclectic response to the end of the Franco dictatorship.
These mobilisations were preceded, during the reign of the generals, by liberation theology and popular education movements whose leaders faced a daily risk of disappearance and death.
Hunt's account of the intercept is told for the first time in With Alex at War, the autobiography of Sir Rupert Clarke, aide -de-camp to Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis, deputy supreme allied commander in Europe and the leading British general in the liberation of Italy.
Wolf's take on classic women's liberation in general is perverse.
In those countries that experienced revolutionary change or failure, national theatres were founded to give expression to the views and values of the middle class, whose aspirations in these cases coincided with a more general movement of national liberation.
In a study published in 1979, D. K. Palit, a retired Indian major general, noted that the liberation of largely Muslim Kashmir could be "regarded as a jihad, a holy war of Islam, which would justify the threat of the use of the Islamic bomb against India".
Commenting on Israel's decision to suspend contact with the EU over the peace process Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, said that Netanyahu was "blackmailing the international community".
Only an essentialist approach can maintain the project of gay history, and minority histories in general, as a force for liberation.
In August 1944, as the newly appointed commissioner for the Angers region after the liberation, Debré first met General de Gaulle.
But his standing as a hero of one of Africa's liberation struggles, and a general wariness that condemning abuses in Zimbabwe might leave their own governments open to similar scrutiny, helped to mute criticism from other countries.
For gay or lesbian African Americans then, knowing ourselves, making ourselves and our extraordinary history known to others, as much as with blacks in general, becomes a key component to liberation.
