Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39

Anarchist workers in the Spanish revolution

Photo gallery of anarchists and other workers who attempted a social revolution after the military uprising of the right-wing General Francisco Franco in July 1936. Thanks to anarchismus.at for supplying some of the pictures.

Disturbances in the Plaça de Sant Jaume, Barcelona. February 17, 1936.
Anarchist militia women.
Spanish Civil War and Revolution photo gallery, 1936-39.
Militia women, Guadalajara.
Barcelona, 1936.
Demonstration in Teruel.
Banner tribute to Francisco Ascaso, famous anarcho-syndicalist and CNT member.
Demonstration, Barcelona 1936.
Anarchist militia men and women.
The anarchist militia men from the 'Ascaso Column'.
Anarchists in Zaragoza, 1936.
CNT militia.
Militia woman, Barcelona, 1936.
Militia woman on Aragon front, 1936.
Anarchist militia man and woman.
Member of the Garcia Oliver column leaves for the front, Barcelona, July 1936.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Armed workers and their family, Barcelona.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Families seeing off militiamen and women to the front.
Militia woman.
Militia woman.
Militia woman.
Unidentified black soldier.
Arms distribution from CNT-FAI.
Anarchist barricade, Barcelona 1936.
Convoy from anarchist group Solidaridad Internationacional Antifascista.
Spanish Civil War and Revolution photo gallery, 1936-39.
Anarchist militia.
Anarchist militia.
Barcelona, July 1936.
Luxury car, sequestered by anarchists.
Departure of the 'Errico Malatesta column', September 1936.
Departure of the 'Garcia Oliver column' to the front, August 1936.
Burned out cars after the defeat of Franco's forces in Barcelona, 1936.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Madrid, July 1936.
Madrid.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Demonstration, Puerta del Sol, Madrid.
Anarchists in Madrid.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Assembly of socialist PSUC and UGT and CNT-FAI in largest arena in Barcelona.
Open meeting of CNT-AIT at Olympia Theatre, Barcelona.
Building occupied by the CNT-FAI.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Self-managed workplace.
Workers in self-managed textile factory.
Self-managed industry in Barcelona.
Worker-managed bakery.
Railway workers.
Workers in self-managed transport industry.
CNT and UGT members paint collectivised trams.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Collectivised CNT tram, Barcelona.
Collectivised tram.
Collectivised tram.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Collectivised CNT industry.
Car being fixed with armour to go to the front.
Armoured vehicle.
Armoured vehicle.
Armoured vehicle.
Armoured vehicles.
Collectivised munitions factory.
Posters.
Workers reading posters.
POUM members reading.
Workers' library.
Anarchist newspapers.
Anarchist magazines on topics such as feminism, education, sex and nudism etc.
CNT union office.
Tribute to the International Brigades at a football match in Madrid, 1937.
CNT activists.
Anarchist grenade-throwers.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish Civil War and Revolution photo gallery, 1936-39.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Anarchist militia women.
Workers' barricades.
Workers' barricades.
Militia women's parade.
Spanish Civil War and Revolution photo gallery, 1936-39.
Militia men and women leave for the front in Barcelona.
Anarchist militia.
'Batallon de la Muerte' or "Centuria Malatesta", Italian anarchist militia.
Batallon de la Muerte.
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Speech from bricklayer and CNT member Cipriano Mera.
Spanish workers 'execute' statue of Christ.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish Civil War and Revolution photo gallery, 1936-39.
The Durruti Column.
FIJL.
Anarchist militia.
Republican militia moving to front lines in the Guadarrama Mountains, 1936.
Workers erect barricade.
Barcelona, 1936.
Workers' barricades, Barcelona, July 1936.
Workers on the barricades, Barcelona, 1936.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Workers' barricades.
Funeral of anti-fascist militia woman, Madrid, 1936.
African-American members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Tereul, Aragon Front, 1938.
Anarchist militia.
Anarchist militia near Aragon front.
Militias in training, Catalunya.
Militia woman in training, Barcelona.
Militia women in training, Barcelona.
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39
Anarcho-syndicalist, Francisco Ascaso.
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, Buenaventura Durruti (centre).
Durruti's funeral.
Supporters at Durruti's funeral.
Supporters carrying coffin at Durruti's funeral.
CNT billboard.
Anarchist militiamen saluting.
Anarchists of the Battalion of Death.
Militia member of “El Batallon de la Muerte” (Battalion of Death).
Revolutionary women in Barcelona
Militia women on patrol, 1937
CNT militia troops
Young boy wearing an FAI cap, Barcelona August 1936
Boy wearing a cap of the Steel Battalions, of the "Union de Hermans Proletarios"
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CNT-FAI militant at the Bakunin barracks, Barcelona, August 28, 1936
Mechanic members of Mujeres Libres - the anarchist women's organisation
Anarchist militiawomen
Spanish civil war and revolution photo gallery, 1936-39

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Ed
Feb 20 2012 13:30

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Auld-bod
May 7 2013 10:30

I found this when reading a review of Peter Day’s book, ‘Franco’s Friends – How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco to Power In Spain’, on the Guardian web site:

Quote:
‘If we ever have a fascist coup in Britain, it won't be run by poor white men trying to improve their sad lives by threatening people with dark skins, but by upper-class Christian gentlemen who talk as though they come straight out of a John Buchan novel. Peter Day's account of the rise of Franco is full of them. Without them, Spain might have remained a democracy after 1936.

Hugh Pollard, who hired the plane that took Franco from the Canaries to north Africa, was typical: an upper-class Roman Catholic, he knew he had the support of the princes of his church, for the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Hinsley – the leader of Britain's Catholics – said that the Spanish civil war was "in essence a contest between Christ and Antichrist".

Those who know something of British fascism in the 30s will recognise some of Pollard's friends and co-conspirators. Major General JFC ‘Boney’ Fuller makes a cameo appearance in Day's book, meeting Franco and greasing the wheels of business with him. This is the same ‘Boney’ Fuller who attached himself to Oswald Mosley, eventually leaving the British Union of Fascists, not from disagreement with its views, but from disillusion with Mosley's leadership qualities.’

Addenda:
Recently opened British security files have shown that the number of British volunteers to fight for the Republic was twice the number previously acknowledged be the authorities.

petey
May 7 2013 18:44
Ed wrote:
2) you're failing to ask yourself why people would want to shoot symbols of the church?

this is the core of it. all this did not come out of nowhere, and though it might be hard to document victimizations by the clergy themselves, it was this clergy who supported and preached as godly a social system of degradation. the opening (iirc) of preston's book has a good vignette of this, some caudillo type haranguing his workers with olympian contempt. later in the book we meet characters who murdered from the same motives. we all have our (divinely authorized) places!

also i detect a cheap rhetorical trick above: if "our" people do a bad thing, it's an exception; if "their" people do it, it's characteristic. so malyuta thinks s/he sees in our pictures people who "would" kill clergy, though we know almost nothing at all of the individuals in those pictures. but when catholics are shown as fascist sympathisers, it's not typical.

Auld-bod
Jan 21 2014 15:07

Farewell Marina Ginesta

Militia woman: image 23 of 126

Marina Ginesta, died January 6th, 2014 in Paris, aged 94.

Marina Ginestà, aged 17, overlooking Barcelona from Hotel Colón. She worked as a translator for a Soviet journalist of Pravda during the Spanish Civil War. She was a member of Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (Socialist Youth), the youth organization mainly directed by Partido Comunista de España (PCE, Communist Party of Spain). Despite her initial involvement she quickly grew disillusioned with the path that the Stalinists were taking. Marina remained a militant throughout the rest of the war and was drawn to other groups at that time such as the anti-Stalinist P.O.U.M (which George Orwell was a member of) and the Anarchist C.N.T. This photographs was taken by Juan Guzman (who was born Hans Gutmann in Germany before going to Spain where he photographed the International Brigades). Date of the photo: July 21, 1936.

From poumista.wordpress.com/category/homage-to-catalunya/

mbrodie_147
Jun 24 2015 15:19

i'm doing a phd on american anarchists who went over to fight in spain and i'm curious about the last photo, the one of the black cnt militiaman - anyone have any idea who this was/who took the photo? i saw in the comments thread about the black lincoln brigader but can't find anything for the cnt soldier - was he an american too?

cheers

Joseph Kay
Jan 3 2016 20:52

24 photos of women in the civil war http://www.abc.es/fotos-archivo/20131204/mujeres-guerra-civil-1511557900...