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

goldman and Montseny

Talking about a revolution: Federica Montseny and Emma Goldman during the Spanish Civil War - Catarina von Wedemeyer

A chapter from Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War , Catarina von Wedemeyer's …

Federica Montseny

Militant anarchism and the reality in Spain - Federica Montseny

A quote from a speech by Federica Montseny, at the time the Minister of Public Health of Spain, at a…

Federica Montseny

Women in the Spanish Civil War: Part 2 – Federica Montseny Mañé

A biography by Caroline Angus of anarcho-syndicalist militant Federica Montseny Mañé. Originally…

CNT

Factionalism in transition: a comparison of ruptures in the Spanish anarchist movement - Eduardo Romanos

A paper by Eduardo Romanos analyzing the major splits of 1931, 1945 and 1979 in the…

CNT UGT hotel

The CNT as I saw it - Fenner Brockway

An article by British socialist Fenner Brockway about his experience with the anarcho-sydncialist union the CNT during his visit to Spain in 1937…

Spanish Revolution newspaper

History of a workers’ revolution in Catalonia - Raymond S. Solomon

An article by Raymond S. Solomon about the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Originally appeared in the…

Ascaso, left, fighting on the Ramblas minutes before he was killed.

Francisco Ascaso: the life, troubles, and death of a Spanish worker

An homage to the life of Francisco Ascaso, long associated with Buenaventura Durruti, a veteran…

Camillo Berneri postcard. Red and black background with image of arm holding torch.

Camillo Berneri, Decolonization, and the Spanish Revolution - Jeff Shantz

This article gives a brief, accessible examination of Camillo Berneri’s perspectives on anti…

Cover of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War

Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War - Ronald Radosh, Mary Habeck, & G. N. Sevostianov

An important study examining previously unavailable Soviet archival materials to…

"La Falange y Cataluña," Nationalist propaganda, c. 1938

Anarchism and Fascism After the Spanish Civil War

A translation of the provocative final chapter of vol. 3 of Portuguese Marxist João Bernardo's Labyrinths of Fascism (Labirintos do Fascismo), …

The "Good Old Days" - Joe Jacobs

Jacobs' 1974 reflections on his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Including the CPGB's actions against…

Nestor Makhno 1889-1934

The Ukrainian roots of the 1936 Spanish revolution

This article from the CNT-AIT of France looks at the connections between the Makhnovshchina and the anarchist revolution in Spain.