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France: Binmen strike over pay
An indefinite strike was called called yesterday by bin men in the Ile de France region.
The workers from Sita, the second largest private refuse collection company in France, are calling for a 3% rise backdated to January the first and a further 1% from the first of July. 180 comunes in the region will be affected as well as three of the 20 departments in Paris.*
Casildo Arteaga , Pantaleon, 1912-2006
A short biography of anarchist, Spanish Civil War and French Resistance fighter Pantaleon Casildo Arteaga.
Pantaleon Casildo Arteaga discovered anarchist ideas at 18 and joined the anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT . At the beginning of the Francoist rising which sparked the Civil War, at the age of 24, he joined the Ascaso Column of the CNT-FAI (the FAI was the Iberian Anarchist Federation, linked to the CNT) and fought on the Aragon front.
Acín Aquilué, Ramón, 1888-1936
A short biography of Spanish anarchist and artist Ramón Acín Aquilué who was shot by fascists at the start of the Civil War in 1936.
“We have as our flag the love of culture, the cult of fraternity and liberty”
Class collaboration - old and new, and Open letter to the CNT, 1937
"Class collaboration - old and new", a timely reminder of working class political experience by Joseph Wagner, and A. Shapiro’s Open letter to the CNT which criticised its actions during the Spanish Civil War.
Published in the IWW's One Big Union Monthly, August, 1937
Bibbi, Gino, 1899-1999
A short biography of Italian anarchist militant Gino Bibbi, who used his engineering skills to develop weaponry to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
Gino Bibbi, born in February 1899, came from a family of ‘good standing’ from the village of Avenza near Carrara, with a father who owned a large joiners’ works.
Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution - Tom Wetzel
Tom Wetzel's historical article and analysis of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, and in particular the activities of the Spanish anarchists within it. In text and PDF format.
Available here as a PDF.
Pérez Navarro, Joaquín, 1907-2006
A short biography of Spanish anarchist and last surviving member of the Friends of Durruti, Joaquín Pérez Navarro.
In the late 1980s I attended a film in London about the achievements of anarchism and the Spanish civil war. At one point the elderly man sitting next to me began weeping quietly. Suddenly, the passion and the conviction of those events and commitments became manifest.
Marti, Vicente, 1926-2006
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Vicente Marti who fought in the resistance to Franco and was involved in the anarchist movement in France.
Vicente Marti
Aka Vincent Marti, born 1926 – Madrid, Spain, died 14 June 2006, France
Vicente Marti was born in Madrid in 1926. His parents were anarcho-syndicalist militants who had to move abode because of their activities.
Vallina, Pedro, 1879-1970
A short biography of Spanish anarchist doctor and Civil War fighter Pedro Vallina Martinez, who resided in several countries during his life.
Pedro Vallina Martinez was born at Guadalcanal near Seville on 29 June 1879. He studied for his baccalaureate in Seville, and then moved to Cadiz where he became a convinced anarchist militant, thanks to the writings of the outstanding anarchist Fermin Salvochea.
We the Anarchists! (Review)
A review by Black Flag of Stuart Christie's book on the Spanish FAI - Iberian Anarchist Federation from the time of the Spanish Civil War.
