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

Juan García Oliver, CNT member who became Minister of Justice in the Civil War.

Controversy: Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution - Sam Dolgoff

Sam Dolgoff analyses and discusses the decision of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT to join the…

Umberto Marzocchi.

Marzocchi, Umberto, 1900-1986

A short biography of Italian anarchist shipyard worker Umberto Marzocchi who fought Mussolini's fascists in Italy, Franco's in Spain and Hitler's…

Leonida Mastrodicasa

Mastrodicasa, Leonida, 1888-1942

A short biography of Italian anarchist metal worker, Spanish Civil War and French Resistance fighter Leonida Mastrodicasa, who died in a Nazi…

Celso Persici.

Persici, Celso, 1895-1988

A short biography of Italian anarchist bricklayer Celso Persici, who fought fascism across Europe and in Morocco, by his son.

Piñol, Juan Brell, 1908-1976+

Biographical information about Spanish anarchist woodworker and Civil War and Resistance fighter and later pensioners' advocate Juan Brell Piñol.

The tragedy of Spain - Rudolf Rocker

German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's history of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution.

Class War on the home front - revolutionary opposition to the Second World War: the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation

Wildcat's excellent pamphlet on the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation in the…

Emma Goldman in Spain, 1936.

Durruti is Dead, Yet Living - Emma Goldman

Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living By Emma Goldman [Published in 1936. Obtained from the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford,…

Mugshot of Ramon Vila Capdevila.

Capdevila, Ramon Vila, 1918-1963

A short biography of anarchist Ramon Vila Capdevila, ‘Caraquemada’, one of the last of the anti-Franco guerrillas to fall.

Juan Gomez Casas.

Casas, Juan Gomez, 1921-2001

A short biography of Juan Gomez Casas, underground militant, then first post-Franco Secretary General of the CNT and prolific writer and…

Louis Emile Cottin

Cottin, Louis Emile, 1896-1937

A biography of Louis Emile Cottin, who attempted to assassinate the French president and fought in the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War.

Helmut Kirschey.

Kirschey, Helmut, 1913-2003

A short biography of Helmut Kirschey, who was probably the last surviving German anarchist to have fought with the Durruti Column in the Spanish…