Spain
International Volunteers in the POUM Militias
Written by Andy Durgan, historical consultant for the Ken Loach film Land and Freedom, the article also contains a list of international volunteers in the POUM militia.
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International Volunteers in the POUM Militias
Andy Durgan
Up to 700 foreigners fought with the 10.000 or so militia organised by the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM) between July 1936 and June 1937 (1). They were from at least 28 different countries; French, Italian and, above all German fighters being the most numerous (2).
Texidor, Greville, 1902- 1964 and Werner Droescher 1911-1978
Short biographies of Greville Texidor and Werner Droescher who both fought with the Spanish anarchist militias.
Greville Texidor was born in 1902 at Wolverhampton, the daughter of William Arthur Foster and Editha Greville Prideaux. Her father, a barrister, committed suicide in 1920 due to a scandal. Her mother was an artist who had originally moved from Auckland in New Zealand to study art in London in 1895.
1934: The Asturias Revolt
An account of the 1934 uprising by Asturian miners in Spain. Beginning as part of a nationwide general strike, the revolt grew into one of the most widespread rebellions of the pre-revolution era.
The 1933 elections in Spain had seen a massive victory delivered to the right, represented by the Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (CEDA), a coalition of largely Catholic conservative groups and Monarchists. Led by José María Gil-Robles, the CEDA soon allied itself with the close runner up of the elections, the Radical Republican Party, led by Alejandro Lerroux.
Ester Borrás, José 1913-1980
Short biography of CNT militant José Ester Borrás, 1913-1980
On October 26, 1913, José Ester Borrás was born in Berga (province of Barcelona, Spain).
On the uselessness of heroes
Charles Reeves reviews "Los Incontrolados, Chronicles of the Iron Column", a book about the famous Spanish anarchist militia and its activities in the Civil War.
On the Uselessness of Heroes
Charles Reeve
(Le Monde Libertaire, February 6-12, 2002)
Self management and the Spanish revolution - Point Blank
An article by Situationist journal Point Blank on the militias and workers' councils during the Spanish Revolution.
Self-Management and the Spanish Revolution
1936 ~ 37
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Workers of the world tonight: International dockers struggles of the 1980s
BM Blob's pamphlet on the struggles of dock workers across the world during the 1980s.
Translated and produced by individuals in Lisbon, Barcelona, Arhus, London, New York
Introduction by BM Blob
Soto, Antonio, 1897-1963
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Antonio Soto, who was heavily involved in the Argentinian revolutionary movement and the FORA in the 1920s.
“You are workers, labourers, continue the strike for final victory, for a new society where there will be neither poor nor rich, a society without weapons or uniforms, where reigns joy, respect for the human being, where nobody will have to kneel because there will be neither those in cassocks nor superiors”
- Antonio Soto at the last general assembly of the Patagonian strikers.
Claramunt, Teresa, 1862- 1931
One of the founders of the Spanish anarchist movement, an ‘organic intellectual’ and one of its most distinguished women activists
“The Louise Michel of Spain"
- Emma Goldman, in a 1937 letter to Ethel Mannin.
Spain: General strike in Cadiz region
Workers at the General Motors subcontractor, Delphi, in Puerto Real have gone on strike in protest at the planned closure of the factory.
A march last Thursday was attended by over 80000 people. The 1600 workers are being represented by the UGT (general workers union) and the workers' commission. They have complained that as the owners are in America negotiations are difficult.
