How the NKVD framed the POUM
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 18 2018 14:42
An extract of the memoirs of Jesús Hernández, a leading member of the Spanish Communist Party and minister in the republican government during the Spanish civil war, explaining how Soviet secret police framed and persecuted the anti-Stalinist communist group the POUM during the conflict.
Female combatants in the Spanish civil war: milicianas on the front lines and in the rearguard
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 24 2017 16:37
An overview of women fighters in the anti-fascist militias during the Spanish civil war 1936-7, written by Lisa Lines in 2009.
Political persecution in republican Spain
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 22 2017 11:28
Short article by Emma Goldman giving an overview of Stalinist persecution of revolutionary antifascists during the Spanish civil war.
The mysterious trial of the POUM—Juan Peiró
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Mar 22 2017 22:59
A brief polemical article intended for publication in Solidaridad Obrera in November 1938, but suppressed by the government censors of Loyalist Spain, in which one of the leaders of the CNT expresses his outrage at the vindictive kangaroo trial of the leaders of the POUM, and issues a resounding appeal to bring the kidnappers and presumed murderers of Andrés Nin to justice in a real court, and to subject them to real laws and proceedings rather than the extraordinary practices of the secret judicial proceedings of the politically privileged Communist Party, to whom he only refers indirectly and with prudent circumlocutions.
Signifo kaj graveco de la majaj tagoj antaŭ la kontraŭrevolucio: Andreu Nin
Samtempulo dokumento el la Laborista Partio pri Marksista Unuiĝo, pri la okazoj en Majo 1937.
Freedom's crooked scars: John Cornford in Spain
Submitted by hominin67 on Jan 14 2017 21:42
A biographical, political, and literary introduction to John Cornford, the first man to go from England to fight the fascist takeover in Spain in 1936 - a poet, a revolutionary, and a military and political leader.
The May days: Barcelona 1937
Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 17 2016 22:25
Interesting collection of writings on the May days in Barcelona: the combination of the "civil war within the civil war" as workers fought back against a counter-revolutionary Communist Party takeover.
Workers power in Lérida - Jordi de Gardeny
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jun 11 2016 14:28
A brief account of the revolution and its institutions in Lérida, Spain, in August-September 1936, written in 1965 by one of the former leaders of the POUM.
The POUM's seven decades - Wilebaldo Solano
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Mar 7 2016 04:27
A history of the POUM, written by a longtime member, Wilebaldo Solano.
Spanish Marxism vs Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War - Victor Alba
Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U.M. to appear in English. Drawing from his multi-volume work on the subject, which was published in Spanish and Catalan, Victor Alba has collaborated with Stephen Schwartz to produce a condensed and amplified study that is far more than a translation.
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