The magazine Cuadernos de Ruedo ibérico (Ruedo ibérico’s Notebooks), was born in the Parisian Spring of 1965 with the purpose of linking exile and home beyond political affiliation. It successfully gathered a large proportion of those that for the first ten years formed an opposition to Francoism; and later opted to critique the model pursued by the transition to democracy. In the fourteen years encompassing both eras, from beginning to end (1965-1979), the magazine went on to publish 66 issues, some in two or three parts, along with numerous supplements.

The plurality encouraged by Cuadernos translated into a succession of editorial lines, three of which are worth highlighting. The first was led by dissidents of the PCE and members of the FLP who gave the magazine a marked Marxist style. After a twelve month hiatus in 1969, Cuadernos de Ruedo ibérico was back on the streets. For four years, the original opposition to Francoism gave way to an anti-Capitalism of an internationalist nature and to critiques of the heterodoxies established by the activism of 1968. This second era concluded at the beginning of 1973. The publication was delayed until 1975, when it restarted with a firm libertarian stance that José Martínez himself re-established.