Spain

As the protests agains the First Employment Contract (CPE) continue in France, young workers and students across the world have begun to show support for the French movement or take similar action themselves.

A short biography of Italian anarchist, Giuseppe Pasotti, who ran a network to smuggle militants and materials into Spain during the Civil War.

A short biography of Wenceslao Jimenez 'Wences' Orive, Spanish anarchist who fought in the guerrilla resistance to Franco following the fascist…

Biographical information about Spanish soldier, anarchist and Civil War fighter Macario Tejada.

Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture, industry and public services in revolutionary Spain during the civil war.

Mattick ponders the then-recent events of May 1937 - when the counter-revolutionary consequences of…

This article deals with a number of specific episodes of class struggle in Lower Andalucia[1] in the recent period. Although these struggles have specific regional characteristics, connected to the highest unemployment rate in Europe (43% in Jerez[2] and Cadiz[3]) and exceptional poverty (only a handful of regions in Europe are poorer), they actually fit a national and, above all, international pattern.

Interesting article by Deirdre Hogan about the collectivisation and worker control of industry in…

An account of the workings of rural agricultural collectives in Aragon, revolutionary Spain, 1936-39

An account of the fighting in Barcelona in May 1937 when the Communists consolidated their hold on…

A letter from an American trade unionist and member of the revolutionary union the Industrial…