Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI)

The Federación Anarquista Ibérica (Iberian Anarchist Federation; FAI) is a social anarchist organisation in Spain and Portugal, which played an important role in the Spanish civil war and Revolution of 1936-9.

Young boy wearing an FAI cap, Barcelona August 1936

Young boy wearing an FAI cap, Barcelona August 1936

Mujeres Libres journal cover

La revista Mujeres Libres

Archivo de Mujeres Libres, abril 1936-febrero 1939.

The war and the revolution are indivisible

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…

Manuel Escorza del Val

The Echo of the Crutches: An Essay on Manuel Escorza del Val – Víctor Malavez

The first installment of a planned series of articles on Manuel Escorza del Val and the espionage…

Collectivised transport during the revolution

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution - Vernon Richards

A critical account and assessment of the Spanish civil war and revolution, particularly focusing on the successes and failures of the anarchist…

CNT-FAI militants during the Spanish revolution

Anarchist organisation: the history of the FAI

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…

Why We Lost the War – Diego Abad de Santillán

A retrospective on the Spanish Civil War by the FAI leader, Diego Abad de Santillán, published in 1940, in which the former Minister of the…

Buenaventura Durruti

Buenaventura Durruti interview - Pierre van Paassen

Supposed interview between Buenaventura Durruti and Pierre van Paassen of the Toronto Star during the Spanish civil war.

Views and Comments No. 38 (May 1960)

The No. 38 (May 1960) issue of Views and Comments, an anarcho-syndicalist leaning publication produced out of New York by the Libertarian League…

Anarchism and the Spanish revolution - Helmut Wagner

An article written by the German council communist Helmut Wagner in April 1937 criticizing…

Libertad Rodenas

Rodenas, Libertad (1893-1970)

A short biography of Libertad Rodenas, noted Spanish anarchist and member of Mujeres Libres.

The Fighting-call bulletin

Online archive of Fighting-call, a Spanish workers' journal of the Freedom Group and Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation with information…

Vanguard (Vol. 4, No. 1, November 1937)

The November 1937 issue of Vanguard, an anarchist journal published out of New York, with articles by Victor Serge, Sam Dolgoff and Sidney…