Spain
Women in the Spanish revolution - Solidarity
Liz Willis writes on the conditions and role of women in and around the Spanish Civil War and revolution of 1936-1939.
Solidarity Pamphlet #48
Introduction
1936-1967: A history of Spanish anarchist youth paper 'Ruta'
Victor Garcia's brief history of the Catalan libertarian youth newspaper from its founding in the civil war to its final issue.
Spanish political prisoner begins thirst strike
An anarchist prisoner once dubbed the "Spanish Robin Hood" is refusing to take water after 86 days on hunger strike over the Spanish state's refusal to let him go despite his having completed his sentence.
Amadeu Casellas is moving into the drinking strike to increase the pressure on Spain's justice system, which is attempting to keep him in prison long after his 20-year maximum term expired.
Co-operatives: all in this together?
An interesting article from The Economist discussing the merits of workers' co-operatives as a means to avoid class conflict in a time of recession.
These are difficult times for the Fagor appliance factory in Mondragón, in northern Spain. Sales have seized up, as at many other white-goods companies. Workers had four weeks’ pay docked at Christmas. Some have been laid off. Now salaries are about to be cut by 8%. Time for Spain’s mighty unions to call a strike? Not at Fagor—for here the decisions are taken by the workers themselves.
The Asturian Strikes of 1962-1963
Guy Debord's accounts of the massive strikes by miners in Franco's Spain, translated into English for the first time.
The Asturian Strike
Sebastian San Vicente 1896- 1938? aka Pedro Sanchez aka El Tampiqueno
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Sebastian San Vicente, active in the USA, Cuba and Mexico and hero of a novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo
The Shadow of a Shadow
Organizing worker struggles through direct democracy: the Barcelona bus drivers struggle for two days off, 2007-2008
An account of the Barcelona bus workers victory.
This is about a successful struggle of bus drivers on Barcelona's transit system between the fall of 2007 and March of 2008. Unlike the transit workers in Madrid, who had two days off each week, bus drivers in Barcelona were forced to work a six-day week.
Meschi, Alberto 1879-1958
A short biography of Alberto Meschi, great figure of Italian anarchism and still remembered fondly in Carrara.
Alberto Meschi was born at Borgo San Donnino (Parma) on 27 May 1879. An autodidact, as a boy he rallied to the workers movement in La Spezia. He worked as a bricklayer. From 1899 he wrote political articles in the paper Pro Coatti, the union magazine L'Edilizia and the antimilitarist La Pace.
Student protests across Europe
As neo-liberal education reforms are planned across Europe, students in the continent have been taking to the streets leading to battles with riot police in several cities.
On Wednesday morning, the day before the general strike over one million workers, students clashed with riot police in Paris after a demonstration over the university reforms. Universities across France have been barricaded and picketed for almost two months in a standoff over these higher education reforms.
Struggles in the Spanish shipyards re-ignite - reports from September and October 2004
This is a blow by blow account of the shipyard workers revolt in Spain in the Autumn of 2004. The revolt was in response to the Spanish state declaring that half the shipyards were to be privatised.
The workers resistance was met with violence from the police leading to major confrontations. It was originally a photographic report, hence the rather sparse texts about individual events.
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