[GCI-ICG] Theses on the revolution and counterrevolution in the Spanish region during the 1930s
Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Jul 17 2021 15:43
We publish here a historical document, elaborated in 1997 by comrades of the Internationalist Communist Group (ICG), which synthesizes in the form of theses the programmatic ruptures reached by our community of struggle regarding the revolution and counterrevolution in Spain during the 1930s.
Revolutionary Fetishism - Ada Martí, Estudios 160, Jan 1937
Submitted by Dannny on May 13 2021 17:01
An early critique of the fashion for revolutionary images in Civil War Barcelona. The author was a member of the Libertarian Youth and a leading light in the Federación Estudiantil de Conciencias Libres (Student Free Thought Federation).
Fedorov A.Y. Oranges of Discord: How the Struggle for Control of Citrus Harvesting and Export Undermined Anti- Fascist Unity in Spain in 1936-1937
Submitted by ASyndicalist on Feb 8 2021 14:50
Abraham Guillén, Between Bakunin and Marx: Anarchism, Socialism, and the Economics of Self-Management
An introduction to the life and ideas of Abraham Guillén by Tommy Lawson of Red Black Notes.
Angel Pestaña. Trade-union and political movement in Spain (1920)
Second article of Angel Pestana, which was write when he came to Moscow to the Second congress of Comintern. And which was published in Moscow bolshevik's newspaper "Pravda".
The 1918 flu pandemic in the CNT media
Submitted by Kate Sharpley on Apr 28 2020 17:49
The notorious flu epidemic of 1918 – known as the ‘Spanish’ flu epidemic – was first reported among US troops bound for the First World War trenches. Given the enormous mobility of troops at the time, the disease was largely free to spread to fresh population centres and so it claimed the lives of 50 million people worldwide. Spreading like wildfire. A powerful example of the destructive power of a pandemic.
A revolutionary theory (with an introduction by Agustín Guillamón)
An article published in July 1937 by The Friends of Durruti, large portions of which appeared in the pamphlet “The Revolutionary Message of the ‘Friends of Durruti’” (PDF) that was translated into English via French. Here it is translated in full directly from Spanish for the first time.
[Answer to IWA Statement] To our friends across the globe:
Some of you have expressed concern and doubt over the lies and half-truths that the current secretariat of the IWA have been spreading through social media. As you know, at CNT we don’t usually get involved in arguments over the Internet.
Berenguer, Sara (1919-2010)
Submitted by Battlescarred on Dec 8 2017 16:17
A short biography of Sara Berenguer, Spanish anarchist
Quando as insurreições morrem – Gilles Dauvé
Influente texto sobre a história das revoluções e contrarrevoluções que aconteceram na primeira metade do século XX, especialmente o período de 1917 até 1937, abrangendo as insurreições do trabalhadores na Itália, na Alemanha, na Rússia e na Espanha, a relação entre a derrota dessas insurreições e o crescimento da social-democracia, da democracia, do fascismo e do nazismo e a maneira como o Estado se converte em democracia e ditadura conforme as necessidades do capital.
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