The Durruti column – Carl Einstein
A posthumous address on Buenaventura Durruti by German anarcho-syndicalist volunteer in the Durruti Column, Carl Einstein. It was broadcasted by the CNT-FAI radio station in Barcelona shortly after Durruti’s death in November 1936, and later published by the Official Propaganda Services of the CNT-FAI in the pamphlet Buenaventura Durruti.
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution - by Gaston Leval (2018 Updated & Improved Edition)
A new, updated, and improved edition of a classic of anarcho-syndicalist economics -- a detailed eyewitness and analysis of the successes and struggles of a libertarian socialist economy
Revolucio kaj kontraŭrevolucio en Katalunujo (1936-37)
Traducción al esperanto del libro de Carlos Semprún-Maura "Revolución y contrarrevolución en Cataluña (1936-1937)", realizada por el compañero Jesús González del Sindicato de Banca de Barcelona y editado digitalmente por la FLS de Viladecans.
La revista Mujeres Libres
Archivo de Mujeres Libres, abril 1936-febrero 1939.
War or revolution: The dilemma of the Spanish Civil War – Rudolf De Jong
A short essay by the former director of the Spanish Section of the International Institute of Social History on the so-called “dilemma” of the Spanish Civil War, in which the author claims that there was no “dilemma” at all for the Republicans and Stalinists, who simply wanted to use the war to stop the revolution, while the Socialist Party (Largo Caballero), riddled with traitors and communist infiltrators, totally failed to even explicitly address the “dilemma”, which was finally suppressed among the libertarians by the “committee-ocracy”, a precursor of the forms of the social democratic welfare state of the postwar period.
The Echo of the Crutches: An Essay on Manuel Escorza del Val – Víctor Malavez
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Apr 15 2018 20:17
The first installment of a planned series of articles on Manuel Escorza del Val and the espionage and counterespionage agency he directed during the Spanish Civil War (the Investigation and Intelligence Commission of the CNT-FAI), with discussions of the espionage agencies of the Nationalists, the Catalonian government, the Republican parties, the Communists, as well as other anarchist and anarchosyndicalist special operations groups, including the German anarchosyndicalist exiles (DAS), focused for the most part on their activities in Catalonia and on the French border.
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution - Vernon Richards
Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 1 2018 16:14
A critical account and assessment of the Spanish civil war and revolution, particularly focusing on the successes and failures of the anarchist organisations, written by Vernon Richards.
Manuel Escorza del Val (1912-1968). A biographical note – Agustín Guillamón
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Oct 10 2017 22:39
A brief biographical sketch of the remarkable life of Manuel Escorza del Val (1912-1968), who, disabled by polio when he was a child, but possessing a formidable intellect and an indomitable will, was an active member of the Libertarian Youth and the Peninsular Committee of the FAI, and then the chief of domestic intelligence for the CNT-FAI during the Spanish Civil War—a ruthless persecutor of fascists, priests and “incontrolados”, and “the most powerful figure in the CNT” in April-May 1937 when he played a decisive role in the outbreak of the May Events—and, after the war, he emigrated to Chile, where he wrote literary and cultural review articles for local newspapers.
The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Mar 26 2017 21:58
Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction “adventure novel” about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of “translated, abridged and rearranged” excerpts from “reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets” (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author’s “Commentaries”.
Anarchist organisation: the history of the FAI
Submitted by Anonymous on Nov 17 2016 23:13
The first book-length history of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) from 1927 until it was repressed at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, written by one of its members, Juan Gómez Casas.
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