The Cry of the Renegade

Twenty four year old Jos Domingo Gmez Rojas died on September 29, 1920, after two months in police custody. Why and how did Gmez Rojas--the "young hope of Chilean poetry," as Pablo Neruda would call him--end up dead in police custody? This book narrates the remarkable lives and political work undertaken by Gmez Rojas and his fellow workers and students in Chile to shed light on the collaboration among students and workers in politics, particularly anarchism, socialism, and Left politics, in Chile and beyond.