Ruedo ibérico incorporated a critique of the contemporary world to its anti-censorship stand versus historical revisionism and disinformation regarding Spanish society. Several avenues of intellectual and political interpretation converged in this free forum provided by the left wing during the sixties and seventies. Others converged along similar lines, including the Library of Socialist culture run by Jorge Semprún; the collection El viejo topo (The Old Mole) directed by Carlos Semprún Maura; in addition to texts linked to contemporary international matters like Che Guevara’s diaries or those of Carlos Franqui. These multiples perspectives, sometimes in open conflict, offered a healthy contrast to the rigidity of an official orthodoxy typical of a dictatorial regime incapable of coexisting with critical political thought.