Agustín Guillamón

Content by or about Agustín Guillamón Iborra (1950- ), a historian of the revolutionary workers' movement and of the Spanish War and Revolution of 1936.

Agustin Guillamon, photo 2021

The Proletariat and the Possibility of Revolution - Agustín Guillamón

The difference between Miquel Amorós and myself doesn’t lie in one wanting revolution and the other…

Versus the State : Theses on War, Revolution and Proletariat

Versus the State is an anthology of incisive articles wherein Agustín Guillamón dismantles the ideological and material underpinnings of modern capitalism: representative democracy, human rights, the State and the bamboozlement of freedom. Through rigorous historical and theoretical analysis, the author shows how the State and capital make up a single, indivisible unit based upon exploitation of waged labour and a…

Front page of El Amigo del Pueblo issue 5

A revolutionary theory (with an introduction by Agustín Guillamón)

An article published in July 1937 by The Friends of Durruti, large portions of which appeared in the…

Book cover/Portada del libro

Barricadas en Barcelona by Agustin Guillamon (Spa)

Spanish edition, by Ediciones Espartaco International, of Agustín Guillamóns Barricades in Barcelone.

Cover of Ready for Revolution: a black rifle against a red background

Review of Ready for Revolution, by Jorge Valadas.

A really sharp review of Agustin Guillamon’s Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938 was just published on H-net…

Ready for Revolution : The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938. [Book Review]

A review of Agustin Guillamon's "Ready for Revolution" on the Spanish anarchist defence committees, assessing its relevance to today's revolutionaries.

Introduction: Ready for revolution

The Kate Sharpley Library team discuss Guillamón's work on the CNT's Defence Committees in relation to what we know about the start of the Spanish Revolution and why it's important.

Response to Agustín Guillamón’s critique of "Critical notes on the text, 'Spain 1936. The exorcism of the ghost of the revolution' by A. Devesa" - Roi Ferreiro

Ferreiro’s reply to Guillamón’s critique of his essay on Spain, in which he accuses…

The theorization of historical experiences - Agustín Guillamón

A critique of Roi Ferreiro’s critique of Andrés Devesa’s essay on the Spanish civil war and…

Theses on the Spanish Civil War and the revolutionary situation created on July 19, 1936 - BALANCE (Agustín Guillamón)

A 2001 text summarizing the results of the research carried out by Agustín…

Barricades in Barcelona: The CNT from the victory of July 1936 to the necessary defeat of May 1937 - Agustín Guillamón

First published in 2006, this book, focusing on Barcelona in 1936-1937, provides an…

Interview with Agustín Guillamón, historian of the Spanish Revolution

In this 2013 interview, Agustín Guillamón, the author of Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense…