ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explore the impact that Third World revolutions had on the Popular Liberation Front (PLF), a political organization formed in Spain to oppose the Franco regime. It examines how other processes, and in particular the Cuban Revolution, influenced the group's debates and actions. In this sense, the chapter discusses three issues: the processes of transnational dissemination of ideas and mobilization models; the relations among revolutionary organizations and between them and institutional actors; and the generation of a shared global revolutionary ethos. The PLF was formed around the figure of diplomat Julio Ceron, attracting university students and professionals who were brought together by their adherence to a form of Catholicism committed to social issues and opposed to the National Catholicism ideas developed by the dictatorship. The emotional impact that the Cuban Revolution had among PLF militants is evident in most of the accounts by members of the organization from that initial period.
