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

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…

Revolution and counterrevolution in Catalonia - Carlos Semprún Maura

First published in France in 1974, a “critical analysis of the bureaucratization of the CNT, with…

The CNT in the Spanish revolution, volume 2

Second volume of José Peirats' extensive work on the Spanish anarchist union the CNT, which in this volume focuses on the battles raging at both…

A barricade during the Spanish revolution

Anarchists in the Spanish revolution

Written by a lifelong member of the CNT, this is the most comprehensive, critical history of the Spanish Civil War and the role played in it by…

Ascaso on the Ramblas, Barcelona, on July 20, 1936

Ascaso Abadía, Francisco, 1901-1936

A very brief biography of leading Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant, Francisco Ascaso, who was killed on the dawn of the Spanish revolution.

The One Big Union Monthly (June 1938)

The One Big Union Monthly (June 1938)

June 1938 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, with articles on the Spanish Civil War and Work Peoples College. Contributors include A.B. Cobbs,…

The One Big Union Monthly (December 1937)

The December 1937 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, with articles on the Spanish Civil War and the CIO. Contributors include John S. Morgan,…

The anarchists in the Spanish civil war - Robert Alexander

A significant, two-volume work by Robert Alexander, re-examining the role of the anarchists in the…

The CNT in the Spanish revolution, volume 3

Final volume of this extensive chronicle of the anarcho-syndicalist union CNT during the Spanish civil war and revolution of 1936-9.