Spanish Civil War
Articles about the Spanish Civil War and social revolution from 1936-1939 which was sparked by a military rising lead by right-wing General Franco.
Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Civil War - Michael Seidman
Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War
Michael Seidman
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Buenaventura Durruti - Peter E. Newell
Buenaventura Durruti
Controversy: Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution - Sam Dolgoff
Sam Dolgoff analyses and discusses the decision of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT to join the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War.
Marzocchi, Umberto, 1900-1986
A short biography of Italian anarchist shipyard worker Umberto Marzocchi who fought Mussolini's fascists in Italy, Franco's in Spain and Hitler's in France.
Umberto Marzocchi
Born 10 October 1900 - Florence, Italy, died 4 June 1986 - Savona, Italy
Mastrodicasa, Leonida, 1888-1942
A short biography of Italian anarchist metal worker, Spanish Civil War and French Resistance fighter Leonida Mastrodicasa, who died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942.
Leonida Mastrodicasa
Born 23 January 1888 - Ponte Felcino, Italy , died 20 March 1942 - Germany
Leonida Mastrodicasa was born at Ponte Felcino, near Perugia, on 23rd January 1888. Son of an anarchist, Iborio, he moved at 16 to Terni to take employment as a metal worker and became an anarchist himself. He founded an anarchist youth group in Ponte Felcino.
Persici, Celso, 1895-1988
A short biography of Italian anarchist bricklayer Celso Persici, who fought fascism across Europe and in Morocco, by his son.
Celso Persici
Born 1895 - Italy, died 15 September 1988 - Nice, France
Piñol, Juan Brell, 1908-1976+
Biographical information about Spanish anarchist woodworker and Civil War and Resistance fighter and later pensioners' advocate Juan Brell Piñol.
Juan Brell Piñol
Born 1908 - Valencia, Spain, death information unknown
Born in Valencia in 1908 into an anarchist family, his childhood was 'eventful' due to the banishments and harassment inflicted on his father. He belonged to the anarchist union the CNT's Woodworkers' Union.
The Tragedy of Spain - Rudolf Rocker
German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's history of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution.
July 19th was the anniversary of the day on which a gang of militarist adventurers rose against the republican regime in Spain and, with the assistance of outside powers and foreign troops, plunged the country into a bloody war.
When Insurrections Die - Gilles Dauvé
Gilles Dauvé's pamphlet on the on the failures of the Russian, Spanish and German Revolutions, and the rise of fascism in Europe.
Brest-Litovsk, 1917 and 1939
"If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development."
Durruti is Dead, Yet Living - Emma Goldman
Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living By Emma Goldman
[Published in 1936. Obtained from the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California.]
Durruti, whom I saw but a month ago, lost his life in the street-battles of Madrid. My previous knowledge of this stormy petrel of the Anarchist and revolutionary movement in Spain was merely from reading about him. On my arrival in Barcelona I learned many fascinating stories of Durruti and his column. They made me eager to go to the Aragon front, where he was the leading spirit of the brave and valiant militias, fighting against fascism.
