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Author : José Peirats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (369 download)
Download or read book The CNT in the Spanish Revolution: Chapters 1-6 written by José Peirats and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agustín Guillamón
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849351430
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Ready for Revolution written by Agustín Guillamón and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain's largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country. The anarcho-syndicalist union evolved from overseeing workers' defense to organizing armed resistance to the Fascist coup. From there, it administered entire militias and finally coordinated industrial self-management and food distribution, leading a revolution within the Spanish Civil War. A fascinating new history and a lively narrative of ordinary men and women making history. Agustín Guillamón is an independent historian and the author of The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937–39 and The Committees Revolution.
Author : Vernon Richards
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629636649
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Lessons of the Spanish Revolution written by Vernon Richards and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution examines the many ways in which Spain’s revolutionary movement contributed to its own defeat. Was it too weak to carry through the revolution? To what extent was the purchase of arms and raw materials from outside sources dependent upon the appearance of a constitutional government inside Republican Spain? What chances had an improvised army of guerrillas against a trained fighting force? These were some of the practical problems facing the revolutionary movement and its leaders. But in seeking to solve these problems, the anarchists and revolutionary syndicalists were also confronted with other fundamental questions. Could they collaborate with political parties and reformist unions? Given the circumstances, was one form of government to be supported against another? Should the revolutionary impetus of the first days of resistance be halted in the interests of the armed struggle against Franco or be allowed to develop as far as the workers were prepared to take it? Was the situation such that the social revolution could triumph and, if not, what was to be the role of the revolutionary workers? Originally written as a series of weekly articles in the 1950s and expanded, republished, and translated into many languages over the years, Vernon Richards’s analysis remains essential reading for all those interested in revolutionary praxis.
Author : José Peirats
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604865970
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1 written by José Peirats and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CNT in the Spanish Revolution is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when the so-called ‘Generation of ’36’, Peirats’ own generation, rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society. It is also a history of a revolution that failed, crushed in the jaws of its enemies on both the reformist left and the reactionary right. José Peirats’ account is effectively the official CNT history of the war, passionate, partisan but, above all, intelligent. Its huge sweeping canvas covers all areas of the anarchist experience—the spontaneous militias, the revolutionary collectives, the moral dilemmas occasioned by the clash of revolutionary ideals and the stark reality of the war effort against Franco and his German Nazi and Italian Fascist allies. This new edition is carefully indexed in a way that converts the work into a usable tool for historians and makes it much easier for the general reader to dip in with greater purpose and pleasure.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6257120861
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."
Author : Angel Smith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845451769
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Anarchism, Revolution, and Reaction written by Angel Smith and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from 1898 to 1923 was a particularly dramatic one in Spanish history; it culminated in the violent Barcelona "labor wars" and was only brought to a close with the coup d'état launched by the Barcelona Captain General, Miguel Primo de Rivera, in September 1923. In his detailed examination of the rise of the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist-led labor movement, the author blends social, cultural and political history in a novel way. He analyses the working class "from below" and the policies of the Spanish State towards labor "from above." Based on an in-depth usage of primary sources, the authors provides an unrivalled account of Catalan labor and the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist movement and thus makes an important contribution to our understanding of early twentieth-century Spanish history.
Author : Chris Ealham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134423403
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 written by Chris Ealham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.
Author : Gaston Leval
Publisher : Freedom
ISBN 13 : 9781629634470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Collectives in the Spanish Revolution written by Gaston Leval and published by Freedom. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaston Leval's study brings together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite--analysis and testimony. He visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history, collectivizing the land, factories, and social services. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution demonstrates clearly that the working class are perfectly capable of running farms, factories, workshops, and health and public services without bosses or managers. It proves that anarchist methods of organizing, with decisions made from the bottom up, can work effectively in large-scale industry, involving the coordination of many thousands of workers in many hundreds of places of work across numerous cities and towns, as well as broad rural areas. Leval's history of anarchy in action also gives insight into the creative and constructive power of ordinary people. The Spanish working class not only kept production going throughout the war, but in many cases managed to achieve increases in output. They improved working conditions and created new techniques. They created, out of nothing, an arms industry without which the war against fascism could not have been fought. The revolution also showed that without the competition bred by capitalism, industry can be run in a much more rational manner. Finally it demonstrated how an organized working class has the power to transform society.
Author : Abel Paz
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849350655
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Story of the Iron Column written by Abel Paz and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate history of fighting against all odds—the legendary war against fascism and capitalism in Spain.
Author : Chris Ealham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849352383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Living Anarchism written by Chris Ealham and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, broad history anchored by the life of Jose Pierats. We follow his development from gang member to union organiser to anarchist intellectual, journalist and revolutionary. Both a study of one man and a collective biography of the working class into which he was born, Living Anarchism illuminates the human foundations in the development of Spanish anarchism - the ties of kinship, friendship, and community that cemented the largest anti-authoritarian movement in the world. It also contains the first in-depth study of the CNT labour union in exile.
Author : James Michael Yeoman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100071215X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915 written by James Michael Yeoman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the formation of a mass anarchist movement in Spain over the turn of the twentieth century. In this period, the movement was transformed from a dislocated collection of groups and individuals into the largest organized body of anarchists in world history: the anarcho-syndicalist National Confederation of Labour (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo: CNT). At the same time, anarchist cultural practices became ingrained in localities across the whole of Spain, laying foundations which maintained the movement’s popular support until the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The book shows that grassroots print culture was central to these developments: driving the development of ideology and strategy – broadly defined as terrorism, education and workplace organization – and providing an informal structure to a movement which shunned recognized leadership and bureaucracy. This study offers a rich analysis of the cultural foundations of Spanish anarchism. This emphasis also challenges claims that the movement was "exceptional" or "peculiar" in its formation, by situating it alongside other decentralized, bottom-up mobilizations across historical and contemporary contexts, from the radical pamphleteering culture of the English Civil War to the use of social media in the Arab Spring.
Author : Abel Paz
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904859505
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Durruti in the Spanish Revolution written by Abel Paz and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political biography, history of of a revolutionary era, and nonstop adventure story across three continents.
Author : Danny Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351664735
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Revolution and the State written by Danny Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the libertarian organisations committed to the reconstruction of the Republican state following its near collapse in July 1936. This process implied participation not only in the organs of governance but also in the ideological reconstitution of the Republic as a patriarchal and national entity. Using original sources, the book shows that the opposition to this process was both broader and more ideologically consistent than has hitherto been assumed, and that, in spite of its heterogeneity, it united around a common revolutionary programme. This resistance to state reconstruction was informed by the essential insight of anarchism: that the function and purpose of the modern state cannot be transformed from within. By situating the struggles of the radical anarchists within the contested process of state reconstruction, the book affirms the continued relevance of this insight to the study of the Spanish revolution.
Author : Stuart Christie
Publisher : ChristieBooks.com
ISBN 13 : 1901172066
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)
Download or read book We, the Anarchists! written by Stuart Christie and published by ChristieBooks.com. This book was released on 2000 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last. A serious examination of the legendary FAI. And hence, by necessity, a history and analysis of the organised anarchist movement in Spain, and its relationship with the wider labor movement. By far the best book on the subject, Christie is ruthless in his examination - from an anarchist perspective - of the theory, and practice of this loose-knit group of anarchist militants. Required reading for everyone who not only wants to understand the history of Spanish anarchism, but for those that might want to see some viable form of anarchist organisation in the 21st century.
Author : Sam Dolgoff
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780919618206
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Anarchist Collectives written by Sam Dolgoff and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a brief period, the Spanish people offered the world a glimpse of a future that differs by orders of magnitude from the tendencies inherent in the state capitalist and state socialist societies that exist today.-Noam Chomsky --Book Jacket.
Author : Sheelagh M. Ellwood
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631166177
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (661 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Civil War written by Sheelagh M. Ellwood and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) was one of the bloodiest internecine conflicts of the modern era, resulting in a repressive and brutal military dictatorship which lasted for almost forty years. Starting with an account of the background to the wat, Sheelagh Ellwood traces the history of the Second Republic (1931-1936), culminating in the electoral victory of the Popular Front in 1936. The author then charts analyses the dramatic chain of events of the Civil War: the army uprising in Morocco in July 1936, the Nationalist advances in southern northwestern Spain, the protracted resistance of Catalonia and Madrid, and the final victory of Franco′s forces in the spring of 1939.
Author : Agustín Guillamón
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353611
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Insurrection written by Agustín Guillamón and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 1937 saw the defeat of one of the most advanced revolutions in modern history. In Insurrection, Agustín Guillamón explains how and why it happened. One of the foremost historians of the Spanish Civil War writing today, Guillamón is known for his skill at unearthing new information, which he gathers from both archives and interviews. In this, his most recent and newly translated book, he uses that information to shed light on some of the most vexing and previously unanswered questions about the conflict, especially on the way that Stalinist and Republican forces conspired through assassination, intrigue and violence, to suppress the uprising. This is a story that George Orwel recounted, but failed to fully understand, in Homage to Catalonia.
