News from libertarian Spain (Vol. 03 No. 01 March 1979)

The March 1979 issue of News from libertarian Spain.

Submitted by Juan Conatz on June 18, 2025

Contents include:

-Urgent: To all our readers, all lovers of freedom by The Editors

-CNT plenums outline program by Sam Dolgoff

-Great debate continues in Barcelona CNT by Abe Bluestein

-The CNT on national independence by Sam Dolgoff

-Peasants leave political movement, join CNT (Translated by Abe Bluestein)

-Osuna olive workers strike for local negotiations

-Barcelona fish market closed by strike

-CNT fisherman resist contract signed by CCOO and UGT

-CNT teamsters call for open meetings of all workers, reject meetings with union leaders only

-Labor notes

-"Soli" publishes criticism of the CNT and withdrawal of local federation

-Israeli kibbutz welcomes CNT members by Sidney Soloman

-Feminism in Spain: goodbye macho! (Translated by Maria Gil)

Taken from Sparrow's Nest

Comments

Juan Conatz

5 months 2 weeks ago

Submitted by Juan Conatz on June 18, 2025

A bit surprised to see the piece by Sidney Solomon on the CNT-Israeli kibbutz collaboration that is defiantly Zionist in nature.

Submitted by syndicalist on June 18, 2025

Juan Conatz wrote: A bit surprised to see the piece by Sidney Solomon on the CNT-Israeli kibbutz collaboration that is defiantly Zionist in nature.

Having known Sidney, I can't excuse his last sentence, for sure.. For some of his generation, it's not totally black and white. A bunch of nuances shaded by post Spanish Revolution,WW 2 holocaust events and the 1967 War.. Not an excuse, just a personal observation based on some conversations. But you can also get a sense of some of this in Sam Dolgoff's "Anarchists in Israel" - https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-israel