Barcelona March 29: General strike video
On March 29, 2012, millions of people across Spain went on strike. The strike, which was the first general strike since September 2010, brought the country to a near halt. The situation in Spain has grown increasingly difficult with 1 in 4 people out of work and many struggling to make rent or mortgage payments. This short film is about what happened in Barcelona on that day.
'The struggle for the streets': Unemployed hawkers, protest culture and repression in the Barcelona area, c1918-1936
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 12 2012 11:21
An article by Chris Ealham on the CNT's mobilisation of street traders, whom the Spanish Republic considered 'undesirables' and repressed, and the militancy of the vendors themselves.
Account of the March 29 Spanish general strike from Barcelona
Submitted by Ramona on Apr 1 2012 19:21
A short account for libcom.org from a comrade in Barcelona, on Spain's first general strike for 18 months.
The revolutionary message of the Friends of Durruti.
Submitted by zero on Apr 1 2012 16:33
George Fontenis' analysis of the Friends of Durruti from a pamphlet translated by the Workers' Solidarity Movement.
CGT, CNT and SO call for participation in the 29 March general strike
Joint statement by the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Solidaridad Obrera (SO) trade unions, appealing to the working class in Spain to join the day of strike action called for 29 March 2012.
Worker Insurgency and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 - Loren Goldner
Submitted by libcom on Mar 26 2012 21:14
An analysis of the end of the Salazar and Franco regimes and the transition crises that marked " the last major working class upsurges in the West in the era of the big factory".
The anarchist collectives: workers' self-management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 - Sam Dolgoff
This was the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers’ self-management, both urban and rural, which constituted one of the most remarkable social revolutions in modern history. Libertarian communism was truly the creation of workers and peasants—a “spontaneous” creation, for which the groundwork had been laid by decades of struggle and education, experiment and thought.
Living Utopia (Documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Mar 16 2012 23:12
A unique feature-length documentary (90 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles) which chronicles the origins and evolution of the Spanish anarchist movement and its important role during the Spanish Revolution (1936-1939)
A conference in Spain
An account from a member of the Swedish syndicalist union, SAC, of an 1992 anarcho-syndicalist conference in Barcelona.
Critical assessment of "Wildcat Spain" book
A look back at Wildcat Spain encounters democracy by one of the translators.
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