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Revolutionary Catalonia (21 July 1936 – 8 May 1937) was the period in which the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era. Although the constitutional Catalan institution of self-government, the Generalitat of Catalonia, remained in ...
19 de jul. de 2018 · The failings. Before 1936, libertarian socialists (anarchists), mainly through the 1.8 million strong CNT, had been preparing for a revolution. Two months before the Revolution, in May 1936, the CNT held a congress in Zaragoza. There, plans were made to smash capitalism and replace it with self-management, socialism and working class self ...
27 de ene. de 2023 · The Spanish anarchists: the heroic years, 1868-1936. Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Share to Tumblr. Share to Pinterest. Share via email. EMBED. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org ...
Under considerable public and official pressure to make arrests, the police quickly detained six Spanish anarchists, including Francisco ‘Quico’ Sabater, the legendary guerrilla fighter and member of the Movimiento Libertario de Resistencia (MLR), a paramilitary group which prosecuted armed resistance to the dictatorship in Spain and whose tactical differences with the rest of the ...
The Anarchists distrusted the Socialists, union leaders, Communists, etc. because the Anarchists distrusted any central bureacratic organization which often led to only to exchange of masters, bureaucratic blunders, corrpution, etc. Borkenau mentioned all of this because the divisions of the “left” aided their defeat in the Spanish Civil War.Bookchin mentions the numerous political parties ...
19 de feb. de 2016 · The Spanish anarchists were not oblivious to these developments. Although syndicalist unions formed the major arena of anarchist activity in Europe, anarchist theorists were mindful that it would not be too difficult for reformist leaders in syndicalist unions to shift organizational control from the bottom to the top.
The Spanish anarchist movement and revolution of the late 1930s are undoubtedly the historical force and context most praised by Western anarchists. In absolute numbers, in proportion of the overall population they were part of, and in the radical transformation they accomplished in much of Spanish society, the reputation is well deserved.
