In Memoriam: Rafael Spósito-Daniel Barret (1952-2009)

Takis Fotopoulos (On Behalf of the Editorial Committee); It was with deep sorrow that I heard of the untimely loss of a great comrade, Rafael Sposito. I was not lucky to have met him and I only knew him from our correspondence (he was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal) and his very powerful introduction for the Latin American edition of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (Hacia una Democracia Inclusiva).http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol1/vol1_no2_sposito.htmRafael was a libertarian sociologist who worked as a university Professor until 1999. He was born in Villa del Cerro, one of the working-class districts of libertarian tradition of Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. A dedicated militant anarchist since his adolescence, he had engaged in diverse organizational action as a member of the student movement and later as a trade unionist. Repression against leftist and anarchist groups forced him to leave Uruguay to live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He returned to Uruguay in 1976 to take part in the struggle ousting the dictatorship, but left again for ideological differences back to Argentina. Among other experiences of communitarian social management, he took part in the administration of a university experiment on education and service in a popular district, as well as in representing the Union of Professors. He was also member of the International Advisory Board of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy.