History

The Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees in Spain - The history of the revolutionary syndicalist tendency of the CNT (1919-1925) - Comités Syndicalistes révolutionnaires

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Aug 23 2015 16:53

An account of the rise and fall of the CNT’s Revolutionary Syndicalist tendency—said to reflect the “original” orientation of the CNT of 1910-1918, modeled on the CGT and the "Charter of Amiens", as opposed to the “sectarian” anarchosyndicalist “deviation” that first arose in the CNT in 1919 as a result of the post-war crisis—featuring the “Declaration of Principles” and “Manifesto” of the Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees (founded in 1922), and discussions of the debates in the CNT concerning the Russian Revolution, the Third International, the Red Trade Union International, how to respond to repression, the question of violence, and the campaign for the trade union united front.

Rodenas, Libertad (1893-1970)

Submitted by Battlescarred on Jul 3 2015 16:08
Libertad Rodenas

A short biography of Libertad Rodenas, Noted Spanish anarchist and member of Mujeres Libres

The Spanish Civil War - Osprey Book Collection

Submitted by diegodelavega on Jun 22 2015 17:33

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 internal conflict between democracy and its enemies escalated. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this study depicts the fighting men of the Nationalist, Republican forces and The International Brigades that strove to take control of Spain alongside their German, Russian and Italian allies.

Nils "Nisse" Lätt (1907-1988)

Submitted by Battlescarred on Jun 1 2015 14:47
Lätt (front left0

a short biography of Nils Lätt, Swedish anarchist who fought in Durruti Column

Samuel Kaplan : another mysterious disappearance in Spain

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 28 2015 05:51

A short account of the fate of the Lithuanian anarchist Samuel Kaplan, who fought with the Durruti Column in Spain.

Dulcet Marti, Rosario (1881-1968)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 25 2015 12:12
Rosario Dulcet

A short biography of Rosario Dulcet, Spanish anarchist organiser

Tufró Rua, Pedro (1907-1937)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 24 2015 20:29
Pedro Tufro

A short biography of Uruguayan anarchist Pedro Tufro, murdered by the Stalinists in Spain in 1937

A look at the past: the revolutionary career of Joaquín Pérez – Miguel Amorós

Submitted by Alias Recluse on May 14 2015 01:26

A 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 early 1920s, and was, successively, a specialist in the CNT’s Defense Committees in Barcelona during the 1930s, a militiaman in the Durruti Column during the first months of the Civil War, one of the original members of The Friends of Durruti, a fugitive, a prisoner in Montjuich, and then, after escaping from Montjuich as Franco’s forces closed in on the citadel, an exile, first in labor camps in France, and then, after stowing away on a British warship during the evacuation of Brest, in London.

An Interview with Miguel Amorós – Cazarabet-El Sueño Igualitario

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Apr 5 2015 21:13

In this 2015 interview, Miguel Amorós discusses his book about Buenaventura Durruti, Durruti in the Labyrinth (2006), the controversies and enigmas surrounding the untimely and mysterious death of this charismatic figure of anarchism, and the impact of his death on the anarchosyndicalist movement in Spain during the civil war, which Amorós says was not dependent on the actions of any single individual, but that his demise demoralized the rank and file of the anarchist movement and reinforced the trend towards bureaucratization in the CNT-FAI by providing those institutions with a martyr for propaganda purposes to rally the masses behind the war and government collaboration.

Kropotkin’s ideas and the international anarchist movement in the 1920s and 1930s - Vadim Damier

Submitted by Karetelnik on Mar 7 2015 17:31
industrialism or rural utopia

After the bitter experience of World War I and the Russian Revolution, the global anarchist movement had to rethink its approach to revolutionary change. The application of science and technology to warfare, the "rationalization" of production, the rise of fascism, etc., created conditions not envisaged in Kropotkin's teachings, which were subjected to a thoroughgoing revision. But Kropotkin also had his defenders, who not only insisted on the relevance of his ideas, but also extended his critique of industrial society. Using a wide variety of sources, Vadim Damier examines these debates, which found their culmination in the CNT's 1936 resolution on libertarian communism.