Spanish civil war

Revolution, defeat and theoretical underdevelopment - Loren Goldner (2016)

Essays written over 2010–14, collected here, deal with the legacy bequeathed to the contemporary revolutionary left by four key historical experiences: the Russian Revolution, the Comintern’s first experiment in ‘anti-imperialism’ in the early years of the Turkish Communist Party (1917–25), the failings of anarchism in the Spanish Revolution/Civil War (1936–9) and the failure of the Trotskyist Fourth International in the run-up to the Bolivian Revolution (1952) and beyond. In short, they probe the theoretical and practical legacies bequeathed to us as Leninism, anti-imperialism, anarchism and official Trotskyism, as it evolved after Trotsky’s assassination in 1940.

Emancipation Vol. 9, Issue 5, Number 69 (December 1986)

The Vol. 9, Issue 5, Number 69 (December 1986) issue of Emancipation a publication produced by the Anarchist Association of the Americas during the 1980s.

Esperantistoj en la Hispana Intercivitano milito

La ĉi-sekva artikolo aperis en 1993 en libro eldonita de "Fritz-Hüser-Instituto pri germana kaj eksterlanda laborista literaturo", Dortmund (Germanio)(*)

The Spanish Revolution 70 years later

An outline of the social revolution which exploded at the start of the Spanish Civil War, touching on how it happened and how it was crushed, as well as its significance for anarchists.

Spain and the World. Vol. 1, no. 06

The sixth edition of Spain and the World, dated 19 February 1937.

Sisterly solidarity - Pepita Carpena

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 5 2016 19:07

Account by Pepita Carpena of the Spanish anarchist Mujeres Libres (Free Women) on how comrades helped her flee Spain after the victory of Franco's forces in 1939.

Buenaventura Durruti interview - Pierre van Paasen

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 5 2016 17:16

In 1936, after the liberation of Aragon from Franco's forces, leading Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti was interviewed by Pierre van Paasen of the Toronto Star. In this interview he gives his views on Fascism, government and social revolution despite the fact that his remarks have only been reported in English - and were never actually written down by him in his native Spanish - they are worth repeating here.

Beware! Anarchist! A life for freedom - Augustin Souchy

Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 4 2016 22:58

Augustin Souchy, left, on his 90th birthday

The incredible autobiography of an incredible man. Souchy fought in the Spanish Revolution; was a serious and knowledgeable student of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Gustav Landauer; a consistent war-resister; a prolific pamphleteer; a major figure in the International Workers' Association (IWA); an anarcho-syndicalist determined to put theory into practice; one of the best informed specialists on the varieties of workers' control and self-management. These are memoirs par excellence, with a forward by Theo Waldinger, and an afterward by Sam Dolgoff.