Spanish civil war

CNT-FAI militant at the Bakunin barracks, Barcelona, August 28, 1936

CNT-FAI militant at the Bakunin barracks, Barcelona, August 28, 1936

CNT-FAI militants during the Spanish revolution

The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism; How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn’t), Then and Now

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #9.

Spanish Revolution exhibit material

Madrid: Conferences on the libertarian revolution

At the Madrid Athenaeum at 7.00pm on the 19th July 2006, there was a simple event, but one dense with political meaning - the opening of an…

Stamps to raise funds for the Spanish Republic from the Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas. Courtesy of Montse Feu/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Project.

Hubs of antifascism: the Spanish anarchist press in the United States - Montse Feu

Among the thousands of Spanish workers who arrived in the United States around the turn of the…

CNT UGT hotel

Factories, fields and firearms: a brief history of the CNT with Chris Ealham

What follows below is a brief history of the the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a…

Gartner_Chateau_de_la_Brosse__Colombes_1939_Ausschnitt.jpg

When the CGT did humanitarian work: Spanish children evacuated to France (1936–1939) - Célia Keren

An essay about the French trade union, the CGT and its attempts to evacuate and…

Soviets o Sindicatos

Valeriano Orobón Fernández in 1920 on dictatorship and unions

A brief article about Spanish anarcho-sydncialist Valeriano Orobón Fernández and his thoughts on the…

Lucía Sánchez Saornil

19 July - Lucía Sánchez Saornil

Following the transformative working-class resistance to the military coup against the Second Republic, which began in Spain’s major cities on 19…

Federica Montseny

Mothers without fathers or nothing more than a woman: gender and anarchism in the work of Federica Montseny, 1923–1929 - Andrew Hamilton Lee

A dissertation that focuses on Federica Montseny Mañe (1905–1994) to examine the…

El error militar de las ‘izquierdas’. Estrategia de la Guerra revolucionaria.

Abraham Guillén, 'The military error of "the Left"'

A translated excerpt from a book by Abraham Guillén that is military history of the Spanish Civil War that offers a critique of Republican…

Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Emma Goldman

The unconquerable - Lucía Sánchez Saornil

This article was written by Lucía Sánchez Saornil, one of the founders of Mujeres Libres and secretary of Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista …

Lucía Sánchez Saornil

Women of the Spanish Civil War: Part 1 – Lucía Sánchez Saornil

A biography by Caroline Angus of anarcho-syndicalist militant Lucía Sánchez Saornil. Originally…

Laureano Cerrada (with the X), behind him Federica Montseny and Germinal Esgleas (with the hat).

More on the libertarian underground in France: legal assets and money-laundering

An article about the exiled Spanish anarchist movement in France and their attempts to fund the…