The historical significance of the POUM - Wilebaldo Solano
Solano y Nin.JPGIn this text based on a presentation delivered in 1985 at a conference on the POUM held in Madrid, the former leader of the Iberian Communist Youth, and the last general secretary of...
View ArticleAnarchy in the navy - Peter E Newell
Republican-Navy.jpg Article responding to the frequent historical criticism of anarchism that a ship could not be run without hierarchy, using the example of sailor-run ships during the Spanish Civil...
View ArticleThe Return of the Public Order Tribunals – Revista Argelaga
montesquieu[1]_0.jpgAn analysis of the recent totalitarian trends in Spain in the legislative and judicial domains, as exemplified by a recent (2015) Supreme Court verdict sentencing several people to...
View ArticleSpain: Ongoing wave of repression against anarchists
Madrid.jpg Twenty-seven people have been arrested by police during a new operation against anarchists in Spain. Starting at 6 a.m. on March 30 2015, police actions in Madrid, Barcelona, Palencia and...
View ArticleOperation Piñata: We Are the Enemy! – Revista Argelaga
Revista Argelaga examines the broader implications of the recent (March 2015) witch-hunt against anarchists in Spain known as “Operation Piñata” through the lens of the “Criminal Law of the Enemy”...
View ArticleAn Interview with Miguel Amorós – Cazarabet-El Sueño Igualitario
durrutienellaberinto-2.jpgIn this 2015 interview, Miguel Amorós discusses his book about Buenaventura Durruti, Durruti in the Labyrinth (2006), the controversies and enigmas surrounding the untimely...
View ArticleThe Spanish revolution 1931-1939 - Pierre Broué
783915e078f6321015e078f6321044110a0a____.jpgAn essay on the “political” dimension of the revolution and the years immediately preceding it in Spain during the 1930s, “the struggle of the Spanish...
View ArticleDid Commies kill Wobblies during the Spanish Civil War? - Raymond S. Solomon
cntsr.png An article by Raymond S. Solomon about Stalinist repression during the Spanish Civil War. read more
View ArticleA look at the past: the revolutionary career of Joaquín Pérez – Miguel Amorós
campoconcentracion.jpgA vivid biographical sketch of Joaquín Pérez (1907-2006), based on a manuscript he wrote during the last few years of his life, who joined the CNT at the age of sixteen in the...
View ArticleDisenchantment – Argelaga
tu-tambien-puedes-ser-un-politico-corrupto-498-body-image-1418991207.jpgAn essay on political corruption in Spain published in May 2015, its impunity, its roots in the “partiocracy” that emerged from...
View ArticleThe mysterious death of Alwyn Williams (1912-1938)
welsh-brigaders.jpg A short account of the life and mysterious death of Alwyn Skinner, International Brigade volunteer read more
View ArticleSpain: Campaign against the Spanish University Foundation
23487.jpg On May 21 2015 more than a dozen activists picketed the entrance of the Spanish University Foundation (Fundación Universitaria Española) in Madrid to put pressure on that institution and draw...
View ArticleTeresa Rebull, dead at the age of 30 – Pepe Gutiérrez
Teresa_Rebull_en_2012_à_Céret.jpgAn obituary published in April 2015 on the occasion of the death of Teresa Rebull (1919-2015)—scion of a well-known libertarian family, sister-in-law of David Rey...
View ArticleThe Spanish Civil War - Osprey Book Collection
Schermata 06-2457196 alle 18.37.23.png The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 was of enormous international as well as national significance. In this gripping volume, Frances Lannon explains how this...
View ArticleRiffraff in the libertarian milieu - Argelaga
Apoyo-main.jpgA timely warning to the libertarians of Spain from the editors of Argelaga concerning an attempt (June 2015), instigated by certain elements in the anarchist camp sympathetic to...
View ArticleThe 1984 law - Argelaga
I am Going to Kick Your Ass.jpeg Some reflections on the latest domestic security legislation passed in Spain (July 2015), known as the “Ley Mordaza” (the Gag Law), which the authors see as an attempt...
View ArticleThe Campaign to Free Noelia Cotelo - La Campana
Noelia-Cotelo-Riveiro.gifSpecial issue of the Spanish anarchosyndicalist journal, La Campana, featuring the ongoing [June 2015] campaign to free Noelia Cotelo, an anarchist prisoner who has been...
View ArticleAnarchism and the Spanish Revolution - Helmut Wagner (GIK)
Industry.jpg An article written by the German council communist Helmut Wagner in April 1937 criticizing extensively the political developments in Spain during the civil war and within it the role...
View ArticleThe class war in Spain - GIK and LCI
Barcelona May Days.jpg A very short pamphlet written jointly by the Belgian LCI (League of Communist Internationalists) and IARV (Union of International Council Workers), and the Dutch GIK (Group of...
View ArticleAnarchism and syndicalism - Salvador Seguí
quemades_segui_i_pestana_2.jpgA speech delivered in prison in 1920 by Salvador Seguí, a major, and complex, figure in the early history of the CNT: a proponent of alliances with other trade union and...
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